Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got $42.9 million in total compensation in fiscal 2019, a 66% raise as the company achieved business targets and grew its stock price. Nadella, who took over as CEO in 2014, received the $42.9 million in total compensation, mostly in stock awards, in the 2019 fiscal year.
Doctors on Wednesday hailed as a "miracle" the survival of a newborn girl found several days after being buried alive, as police hunted for her parents who have been charged with attempted murder.
The end, perhaps, is now nigh in the epic legal dispute over a religious site that has sparked thousands of deaths, with India's top court wrapping up hearings on Wednesday. Judges are now expected to rule on the ownership of the area claimed by both Hindus and Muslims in Ayodhya in northern India by November 17.
A data specialist of Indian descent, who turned himself in to authorities Oct. 14 after arriving at Mount Shasta police station with a dead body in his car, has been arrested after confessing to killing the man in his car and three other people at his apartment in Roseville, about 260 miles south of Mount Shasta.
Mobile phone networks were restored in Indian Kashmir on Monday after a 72-day blackout, authorities said, but the internet remains off-limits to the region's seven million-plus people.
A trio of Americans on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work in the fight against poverty, including Indian-born MIT professor, Abhijit Banerjee.
The Indian government said Saturday it would unblock most mobile telephone lines in Kashmir in a major easing of a two-month-old security clampdown since cancelling the region's autonomy, but a grenade attack in the main city highlighted tensions over New Delhi's actions.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Oct. 15 that India’s growth story is not a “hostage to performance in some quarters” and the country continues to remain one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
Abhijit Banerjee, the co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences, along with his wife, also an MIT economist, and another Harvard economist “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty,” may well have economics in his blood from an early age. The 58-year-old Nobel laureate was born into a family of economists in Kolkata.
President Trump appointed Judge Neomi Jehangir Rao, 45, who was confirmed by the full Senate on March 13 by a strictly party line vote of 53-47, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in her first major ruling Oct. 11, dissented with her colleagues that the President’s accounting firm need not comply with a Congressional subpoena for eight years of his tax and financial records.
In a historic development in the annals of Indian- American charitable giving, 11 Indian-American philanthropic organizations — including some of the leading and well-established organizations like the Pratham USA, the American India Foundation (AIF), Ekal USA, and the Foundation for Excellence (FFE) — have come together under the banner of the India Philanthropy Alliance (IPA).
The U.S. Congress has continued to up the ante over the situation in Kashmir, particularly over the “humanitarian crisis” and the communications blockade” imposed by the government of India, with a powerful Congressional committee urging India to withdraw the stringent measures that are adversely impacting the lives of the people in the state.
Anurag Bhaskar, a 2019 Harvard law graduate from the Dalit community was in India early this month when a federal court in Massachusetts ruled to uphold the race-conscious students’ admissions policy at Harvard, saying it finds no proof of intentional discrimination against Asian-American ap…
Recently the Indian government removed certain special rights granted to the residents of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. These rights were granted temporarily under Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution.
India’s Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent statement on Hindi being the one necessary language for India has stirred quite a big controversy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a huge rally, “Howdy Modi!” with President Donald Trump in toe, at the NRG Stadium in Houston on Sept. 22.
One would assume that the dramatic revocation of the much-maligned Article 370 by Prime Minister Modi on August 5, 2019 would open the flood-gates for KP’s to return to their ancestral land. But that is not going to happen, as KP’s having been burnt before want to see strong security before they return to their spiritual land.
Ravi, 15, can hardly speak about the time he tried to impress peers at his new college by smoking cigarettes stolen from his father. For, 30 years later, Ravi’s chronic cough and laryngitis turned out to be symptoms of throat cancer.
Sumir Chadha, co-founder and managing director of WestBridge Capital, who has emerged as one of the leading philanthropists among the Indian American Generation X’ers, has said he was inspired to give by his American friends
Indiaspora’s second annual philanthropy summit on Oct. 2, kicked off with the official launch of its inaugural ChaloGive online initiative to galvanize the Indian diaspora around giving at a much higher level than the Indian American community has been hitherto engaged in.
In what is expected to be a transformation change in the annals of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), Dr. Suresh Reddy, a Generation X’er, took over the helm of the organization on July 6 at the conclusion of AAPI’s 37th annual convention held in Atlanta.
Less than two weeks after he takes over the reins of AAPI on July 6, at the conclusion of the organization’s 37th annual convention in Atlanta, Dr. Suresh Reddy will hit the ground running when he will play host to AAPI’s 13th edition of its annual Global Healthcare Summit in Hyderabad from July 19-21.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got $42.9 million in total compensation in fiscal 2019, a 66% raise as the company achieved business targets and grew its stock price. Nadella, who took over as CEO in 2014, received the $42.9 million in total compensation, mostly in stock awards, in the 2019 fiscal year.
President Trump appointed Judge Neomi Jehangir Rao, 45, who was confirmed by the full Senate on March 13 by a strictly party line vote of 53-47, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in her first major ruling Oct. 11, dissented with her colleagues that the President’s accounting firm need not comply with a Congressional subpoena for eight years of his tax and financial records.
The Modi government is committed to resolving its contentious trade disputes with the U.S. in the near-term, instead of kicking it down the road till after the American presidential election in 2020, according to India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
President Trump appointed Judge Neomi Jehangir Rao, 45, who was confirmed by the full Senate on March 13 by a strictly party line vote of 53-47, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in her first major ruling Oct. 11, dissented with her colleagues that the President’s accounting firm need not comply with a Congressional subpoena for eight years of his tax and financial records.
Recently the Indian government removed certain special rights granted to the residents of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. These rights were granted temporarily under Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution.
Upon reaching India in 1959, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remarked, “To other countries I may go as a tourist, but to India I come as a pilgrim.” He added, “Perhaps, above all, India is the land where the techniques of nonviolent social change were developed that my people have used in Montgomery, Alabama, and elsewhere throughout the American South. We have found them to be effective and sustaining — they work!”
Doctors on Wednesday hailed as a "miracle" the survival of a newborn girl found several days after being buried alive, as police hunted for her parents who have been charged with attempted murder.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Oct. 15 that India’s growth story is not a “hostage to performance in some quarters” and the country continues to remain one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s apparent justification of the 2002 massacre of Muslims in Gujarat during an Oct. 1 town hall in Londonderry, N.H. has sparked a social media furor decrying the Hawaii Democratic lawmaker and presidential candidate.
When President Donald Trump decided to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the ‘Howdy Modi!’ rally in Houston on Sept. 22, it was seen as a win-win situation for both the leaders. For Modi, it was to be an opportunity to renew his connection with the Indian diaspora in the U.S. who have contributed to his election campaign this year, both financially and with phone calls and email messaging from the U.S.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got $42.9 million in total compensation in fiscal 2019, a 66% raise as the company achieved business targets and grew its stock price. Nadella, who took over as CEO in 2014, received the $42.9 million in total compensation, mostly in stock awards, in the 2019 fiscal year.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Oct. 15 that India’s growth story is not a “hostage to performance in some quarters” and the country continues to remain one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Sterba’s DanceSport in Naperville, Ill.
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in at the Woodbridge Center Mall in Woodbridge, N.J., Sept. 2. Highlights of the festival include daily aarti, cultural programs and celebrity sightings.
Four Indian-Americans are among scientists selected for the National Institutes of Health’s New Innovator Awards. Those selected include Dr. Rajat Gupta, Dr. Mandar Deepak Muzumdar, Upasana Sharma and Vasanth Vedantham.
Anurag Bhaskar, a 2019 Harvard law graduate from the Dalit community was in India early this…
Multidimensional artist Sumitra Nanjundan, known only by her first name, last month released “Bittersweet,” her fourth album, which includes seven of her original songs.
It was in the fall of 2017 that Anu Bhat wrote “Hollow/Wave” to empower survivors, especially South Asian women. An autobiographical story of survival and healing, Bhatt told India Abroad that through her one-woman show, which incorporates a combination of theater, Bharatnatyam and stand-up, she is reclaiming her space and her story and empowering others to do the same.
