A 23-year-old student from Andhra Pradesh died in Chicago, US, on Monday, a day after he was shot by armed assailants. The deceased was identified as Nandapu Devansh, a native of Vijayawada. The attack took place on Sunday when Devansh and his two friends — Koppala Sai Charan (22) from Hyderabad, and Lakshman of Visakhapatnam […]
NEW YORK: A 56-year-old Indian-American man has been arrested in North Carolina on charges of defrauding Indian community members in a Ponzi scheme asking them to invest in real estate property that would earn them profits.Kumar Arun Neppalli, a resident of Cary was arrested on Tuesday upon the unsealing of a 23-count indictment in connection […]
WASHINGTON: Harmeet Dhillon, a prominent Indian-American attorney who is running for Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman, has alleged that she is facing bigoted attacks from her fellow party leaders because of her Sikh faith and asserted that she will not give up and continue to be in the race for the top position.Dhillon, 54, a […]
NEW DELHI: The United States has taken steps to resolve serious challenges to issuing business visas to Indians following the Covid-19 pandemic, Arun Venkataraman, US Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets, said at a conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. Source link
HOUSTON: A 35-year-old man has been found guilty in the 2021 killing of a five-year-old Indian-origin girl in the US state of Louisiana.A stray bullet struck Mya Patel‘s head on March 20, 2021, when she was playing in her motel room in Shreveport. She was rushed to a hospital but passed away after battling for […]
NEW YORK: An Indian-American PhD student has received a fellowship from the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and the US Bureau of Reclamation for undertaking cutting-edge and innovative research in the field of advanced treatment of alternative water supplies.Harsh Patel, a Chemical Engineering PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Michigan was […]
MELBOURNE: A 41-year-old Indian-origin driver has been charged in Australia over an accident that killed four passengers from India when his car collided with a utility vehicle, according to media reports.Harinder Singh, who remains in hospital under police guard, was charged on Wednesday with four counts of dangerous driving causing death, The Age newspaper reported.The […]
Last week Manpreet Singh made history when she was sworn in as a judge of a Harris County civil court in Texas; becoming the first woman Sikh judge in the US. What was even more significant was that Indian-American Ravi Sandill, the state’s first South Asian judge, presided over the ceremony. Sandill, who is from […]
SINGAPORE: A 64-year-old Indian-origin woman was on Monday sentenced to 14 years in jail in Singapore for joining her daughter in torturing the latter’s maid, who eventually died from a brain injury in 2016. Prema S Naraynasamy pleaded guilty in November 2021 to 48 charges, mostly of voluntarily causing hurt to domestic help, 24-year-old Myanmar […]
NEW DELHI: The United States is making every effort to reduce the waiting time for visa interview appointment in India as soon as possible, even as the US embassy and consulates in the country have broken their record by issuing nearly, 1,25,000 student visas in the fiscal year 2022, state department spokesperson Ned Price said […]
