A charity organisation run by an Indian-origin couple will start a fundraising campaign on Saturday to benefit sickle cell disease research in the US, a media report said on Thursday. ...
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Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Silicon Valley, a war of words has broken out between pro and anti Modi academics of Indian descent spread over major American universities....

To the great relief of the Republican leadership, Donald Trump signed on Thursday a loyalty pledge saying he will only run as a Republican candidate in the 2016 election....
Indian-American Republican presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal has blamed his party's lawmakers for getting badly outplayed in their efforts to sink President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. ...

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An India-American doctor has been training his peers in robotics-assisted surgery as part of a programme that draws surgeons from all over the US, a media report said....
An exhibition of art and culture by artists of Indian origin and heritage -- "India in Focus" -- will be part of a six-week Pittsburgh Cultural Trust event to be held from September 25 to November 8....

Sureshbhai Patel, 58, left partially paralyzed when he was slammed to the ground during a police stop in Alabama testified that he'd been in the state only about a week when he was confronted by officers investigating a call about a suspicious person, The Telegraph reported....

Singer Britney Spears praised the female audience members at her Las Vegas concert, before making a bizarre comment to the men....