The government Thursday appointed Ajit Kumar, India's consul general at Atlanta, in the US, as ambassador and permanent representative of the country to the United Nations offices in Geneva. ...
Rashad Hussain, of Indian heritage, has been appointed as US envoy and coordinator for Strategic Counter-Terrorism Communications to expand international engagement and partnerships to counter violent extremism....
Prof Sree Sreenivasan and South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) will receive this year’s Tarakanath Das Foundation award for contributions to Indo-American understanding. The award will be presented on March 6 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where Sreenivasan is the chief digital officer....
Fourteen films, exploring the unique circumstances and complex stories of South Asians, will be featured at the first South Asian Film Festival in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Feb 27 to March 1....
People are most likely to blame God for their bad behaviour believing that they were born to act that partcular manner, say the findings of an ongoing project on spirituality and religion....
Washington, Feb 19 : A noted Indian-American lawyer has sent a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry to issue a humanitarian visa ...
Washington, Feb 19 : US President Barack Obama has said the fight against violent extremism is not against Islam and the world should resist ...
A federal jury today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who lured hundreds of workers to a Mississippi shipyard with false pr...
While the world is yet to get over the shocking demise of eye-wearable device Google Glass, Japanese multinational firm Sony has launched a cheaper edition of its device known as SmartEyeglass....
Hundreds of people attended a memorial service held at the Mar Thoma Church in Des Plaines, Illinois, for Pravin Varughese, 19, who was found dead in suspicious circumstances a year ago in Carbondale, where he was a second year student at the Southern Illinois University....
