"Kadambari", a Bengali film centred around Kadambari Devi, sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore with whom he is supposed to have had a close personal relationship and who eventually committed suicide, won the Best Film award at the 4th Washington, DC, South Asian Film Festival...
Kartik Chandran, an Indian-American associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow with a "genius grant" of $625,000 with no strings attached....
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Internet giant Google's newly-appointed India-born chief executive Sundar Pichai took to the stage on Tuesday to launch two new smartphones, streaming gadgets and a new Android operating system (OS) to compete with rivals in the mobility space....
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates retains the top spot on the Forbes list of America's 400 richest people for the 22nd straight year with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump ranked 121st with $4.5 billion. ...
Pope Francis did not invite Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino to a meeting of families in Philadelphia, US, the Pope has said....
A key supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has roped in former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich to back a new effort to bring Indian Americans, a traditional Democratic political base, into the Republican Party....
A New York district court has approved dismissal of fraud charges by the US markets regulator against an Indian-American executive at an investment advisory firm. ...
US media gave pride of place to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interactions with Silicon Valley's tech titans and his rockstar-like reception by the Indian diaspora, with the New York Times saying he had conquered the tech Mecca. ...
