The woman US aid worker kidnapped by the Islamic State and killed in Jordanian airstrikes in Syria was inspired by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and was remembered for her humanitarian support to the Tibetans in exile. She also fed slum children in Uttar Pradesh, according to people who knew her....
At least 26 Americans of Indian or South Asian origin figure in this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 list or what the US business magazine calls "today's greatest gathering of young game changers, movers and makers."...
US Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew Wednesday expressed his country's commitment to support growth and reforms in India and encourage greater opening of the Indian economy to US firms....
Gurpreet Singh, an Indian American assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University, has received a $500,000 National Science Foundation Career award for his research on nanosheets. ...
Dr. Parveen Chopra was recently honored with the Presidential Philanthropy Award by the Martin Luther King birthday Celebration Committee at its thirtieth Awards ceremony held at the Marriott Hotel, Uniondale, New York. Dr. Chopra was bestowed this award for his significant philanthropic contributions to the Martin Luther King Scholar...
Leaders at the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) strongly condemned the brutal police attack on Sureshbai Patel, a Hindu American of Indian origin. The attack, which occurred in the first week of February in Madison, labama, left the 57 year old grandfather partially paralyzed with fused vertebrae, and other injuries. ...
Three young Muslim people were fatally shot in an apartment complex near the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, authorities said Wednesday....
The US-based lawyer of a Delhi woman executive who was allegedly raped by an Uber cab driver in December, Wednesday dismissed the addition of a panic button to the web-based US taxi firm's app in India as a "marketing ploy"....
Using an icebox-like instrument nicknamed Himalaya, an Indian-origin researcher-led team has revealed that fluffy ice on the surface of a comet would crystallise and harden as the comet heads toward the Sun and warms up. ...
Brian Williams, the anchor of America's most watched network newscast, was never in a chopper attacked by Iraqi forces as he claimed, though now he is really being bombarded -- with criticism that threatens his career and the credibility of his network....
