Indian police fought street battles in New Delhi on Monday with thousands of students who stepped up protests over fee increases at one of the country's top universities.
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An avalanche on Monday hit an Indian patrol in the world's highest militarized zone in the Himalayas, killing four soldiers and two porters, an army spokesman said.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who spearheaded the brutal crushing of Tamil Tigers a decade ago, stormed to power Sunday but promised to be a president for all Sri Lanka's races and religions after a divisive election.
In a continuing trend, hate crimes towards Sikhs in the U.S. tripled, from 20 incidents in 2017 to 60 incidents in 2018, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)data released Nov. 12.
Skipper Virat Kohli Saturday praised "clinical" India after their pacemen helped crush Bangladesh by an innings and 130 runs inside three days of the opening Test.
A thick grey smog choked New Delhi for the fifth day Saturday, adding to a mounting pollution health crisis, but retired naval commander Anil Charan is one of the vast majority of the city's 20 million inhabitants who do not wear a mask.
Shares in Indian telecom giants Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel went through wild swings on Friday after they reported huge losses, but closed with significant gains.
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Indra Nooyi, 64, the former chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo — the world’s second largest beverages company — even in retirement, continued to create history, becoming the first Indian- American to be inducted into the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Nooyi, was among five luminaries whose portraits were unveiled at this prestigious gallery.
Kshama Sawant, a Socialist Alternative party member of Seattle City Council who was re-elected in a hotly contested election, says her victory is a huge popular mandate for progressive policies and gives a very crucial message to people ahead of the presidential election in 2020.
Kshama Sawant, the Socialist Alternative party member who won the City Council seat for the third time on Nov. 5, says her party would urge Sen. Bernie Sanders to run as an independent in the 2020 presidential election, if the Democratic party declines to give him nomination.She fears that the Democratic party establishment would do everything in its power to prevent Sanders from getting the nomination.
Natasha Gupta is hopeful of making a difference in her home state of California. Her confidence not only stems from her youth, she’s only 28, but also from her experiences of having grown up there, attending public school, her liberal upbringing and her bi-racial identity of being married to a Chinese-American.
In her new book, ‘With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace,’ which was released on Nov. 12, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley recounts how President Trump was outraged when she informed him that Pakistan — one of the largest beneficiaries of American military and economic largesse — not only voted against U.S. at the UN, but also harbored terrorists, “who try to kill American soldiers.”
Nikki Haley, former South Carolina Governor and erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has for all intents and purposes set her 2024 presidential campaign in motion with the release of her controversial book, ‘With All Due Respect,’ about the behind-the-scenes goings-on during her tenure in the Trump administration. The book is being seen as her way of consolidating the support she enjoys among the neoconservatives, who are apparently all-in for her as their choice for President.
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.
Dr. Siva Subramaniam, 74, chief of the Department of Neonatology at Georgetown University Hospital, on Nov. 14, became the first Hindu-American to be honored with the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington’s ‘Interfaith Leadership Award’ at its 40th anniversary interfaith conference at the Washington Hebrew Congregation.
Indra Nooyi, 64, the former chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo — the world’s second largest beverages company — even in retirement, continued to create history, becoming the first Indian- American to be inducted into the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Nooyi, was among five luminaries whose portraits were unveiled at this prestigious gallery.
While in her recent memoir, ‘With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit And Grace’ — the bulk of which dwells on her tenure in the Trump administration—Nikki Haley deftly does a diplomatic dance between currying favor with and distancing herself from the mercurial President Trump.
Kshama Sawant, a Socialist Alternative party member of Seattle City Council who was re-elected in a hotly contested election, says her victory is a huge popular mandate for progressive policies and gives a very crucial message to people ahead of the presidential election in 2020.
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.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. It may be an adage, but Prof. Stephen Philip Cohen (1936-2019) often paid from his pocket to prove it wrong. I am one among those scores of South Asian scholars, journalists and policymakers fortunate enough to come in contact with this brilliant and generous mentor.
Indian police fought street battles in New Delhi on Monday with thousands of students who stepped up protests over fee increases at one of the country's top universities.
The Hindu-American community and those supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have hailed the Supreme Court for delivering “a just and fair judgment,” and providing a “closure” and “victory” to both the Hindu and the Muslim communities. On the other hand, are the minorities, the liberals and the progressives, who call the verdict “flawed” and a “failure for democracy.”
While in her recent memoir, ‘With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit And Grace’ — the bulk of which dwells on her tenure in the Trump administration—Nikki Haley deftly does a diplomatic dance between currying favor with and distancing herself from the mercurial President Trump.
Kshama Sawant, a Socialist Alternative party member of Seattle City Council who was re-elected in a hotly contested election, says her victory is a huge popular mandate for progressive policies and gives a very crucial message to people ahead of the presidential election in 2020.
Shares in Indian telecom giants Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel went through wild swings on Friday after they reported huge losses, but closed with significant gains.
Indra Nooyi, 64, the former chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo — the world’s second largest beverages company — even in retirement, continued to create history, becoming the first Indian- American to be inducted into the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Nooyi, was among five luminaries whose portraits were unveiled at this prestigious gallery.
An IIT-trained mathematician from Kolkata, who is also a renowned musician, enthralled audience at Flushing Hindu Temple Nov. 9 with a vocal classical music recital celebrating Diwali and an annual multi-cultural festival organized by Ranjanee, a local dance and music academy.
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.
Two teenagers of “Indian descent” have been arrested by police in Lawrence Township, N.J. in connection with an alleged bias incident at a Lawrence High School football game. The unidentified 17-year-olds face multiple counts of harassment, bias intimidation and lewdness charges, according to news reports.
The “politics of dignity and equal rights” for marginalized communities in a global context, including of Dalits and other minorities in India, was the focus of a daylong symposium in Michigan Oct. 12, addressed among others by Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Director of Equality Labs.
Swati Bhise is a history buff – Indian and British history to be precise. Add to that her mastery in abhinaya (acting), choreography, music and detailing, and the result her directorial debut, “The Warrior Queen of Jhansi,” which released Nov. 15. Bhise calls it a ihistorical and visual delight.
The New York City South Asian Film Festival (NYC SAFF) opened with a glittering red carpet at the Altman Building here, Nov. 15. Stars and filmmakers mingled with attendees and guests at cocktail event prior to the screening of Rohit Karn Batra’s “Line of Descent.”
