WASHINGTON: Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has said that Pakistan’s spy agency ISI considers him an “enemy” because of his stand against the radicals in the South Asian country. The Democratic Party lawmaker from Illinois said this while addressing community members during a fundraiser hosted by him in Boston at the residence of eminent Indian American […]
SINGAPORE: A 22-year-old Indian-origin man in Singapore was sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane on Thursday for stabbing a stranger to death with a Singapore Armed Forces-issued Swiss folding knife during the Covid-19 “circuit-breaker” period in 2020. Surajsrikan Diwakar Mani Tripathi pleaded guilty to one count of murder. He stabbed 38-year-old […]
Nicholas Rathod was an ‘insider’ in the US government as President Barack Obama’s deputy director of inter-governmental affairs between 2009 and 2011, when he directed the outreach and policy agenda with states and territories on behalf of the White House. He was also director of intergovernmental affairs in the Obama-Biden transition team in 2008-2009 and […]
SINGAPORE: An Indian-origin Singaporean was jailed for 21 months and four weeks by a court here on Wednesday for several offences committed last year, including assault, harassment and hurling racist comments at police officers. Sanjeevan Maha Lingam, 43, on his birthday last year, September 24, punched a cleaning worker and fractured his jaw during an […]
Veena Sahajwalla, a scientist of Indian origin and professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been recognised for her work in communicating the science of sustainability to broad community audiences, according to a press release by UNSW. She has won the prestigious Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science […]
BENGALURU: A speech in Canada’s Parliament by a Canadian MP in his mother tongue Kannada has gone viral on the social media, earning him praise for his love towards his native language. Chandra Arya, a Member of Parliament from Nepean, hails from Dwaralu, a small village in Sira Taluk of Tumakuru district in Karnataka. “I […]
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint Indian-Americans Manu Asthana and Madhu Beriwal to his national infrastructure advisory council. The President’s national infrastructure advisory council (NIAC) advises the White House on how to reduce physical and cyber risks, and improve security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure sectors. The 26 […]
Last week, Ami Bera, the Indian American Democratic Congressman from California, along with Congresswoman Deborah Ross; Senator Alex Padilla, and Senate judiciary committee chair Dick Durbin called for the passage of America’s CHILDREN Act, bipartisan legislation which will protect documented dreamers, who are dependents of long-term non-immigrant visa holders, from aging out of the system […]
NEW YORK: An Indian-origin girl has won the US National Spelling Bee championship regaining the title for the community after two breaks in the streak of victories going back to 2008. Harini Logan was declared the champion beating out 234 children from around the US and abroad who had won local contests, and she gets […]
President Joe Biden has announced the nomination of Indian American transport expert Shailen P. Bhatt, as administrator of the federal highway administration, US department of transportation, last week. Bhatt has held several leadership positions in the transportation sector both in government and the private sector. Since September 2021, he is senior vice president of global […]
