Ami Bera Gets Upfront and Personal Over a Sunday Brunch
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: For someone who was elected to the US Congress just eight months ago, Dr. Ami Bera is surprisingly easy going and approachable. He put the over three dozen people who came to hear him at ease with his openness on issues, charming them with his easy delivery and smile. “I am […]
IAPAC, SIMA Fundraiser for Parker Draws Out Many Motel Owners
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: With election season coming into the final six-week stretch, the Indo American Political Action Committee and the Small Independent Motel Owner’s Association (which includes 175 motel owners, mostly Indian, across the city) held a fundraiser for Mayor Anisse Parker who is seeking re-election to her last term. Close to 100 people […]
Annual Convention in Tampa Concludes with Narendra Modi Reaching Out to Indian Diaspora
TAMPA, FL: Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) USA convened an annual convention in Tampa, during Friday, September 20, and Saturday, September 21, at local India Cultural Center (ICC). Smriti Irani, BJP national Vice President inaugurated the convention on Friday and presided over the women and youth forum along with co-panelist Prodyut Bora, national executive member […]
Abercrombie & Fitch to Pay $71K to Settle Lawsuits Over Hijab
By Indiawest UNITED STATES: Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has agreed to pay $71,000 and to change its policies to settle two separate religious discrimination lawsuits on behalf of Muslim teens wearing hijabs, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Sept. 23. The settlement follows a recent ruling finding Abercrombie liable for religious discrimination in one case, […]
PM leaves tomorrow for the US to meet Obama, address UN general assembly
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave tomorrow on a visit to the US during which he will hold talks with PresidentBarack Obama and attend UN general assembly, besides having a possible meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. Implementation of the civil nuclear deal, ways to expand cooperation in the fields of defence, security and economic issues […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Delhi Police Are Not With You If You Are Poor
I returned to Delhi in winter. I had been away for five years. The city was in turmoil in those early months of 2010, physically and morally. The Commonwealth Games were around the corner and Delhi was a city of broken culverts, dug-up roads, half-built bus stops and hurriedly whitewashed public spaces. Revelations of corruption […]
Jagan Mohan Reddy walks out of jail after 16 months
Hyderabad: Arms raised in greeting as he repeatedly bowed and waved to the sea of people around him, Jagan Mohan Reddy stepped out of Hyderabad’s Chanchulguda jail at about 4 this evening, after 16 months of imprisonment. (Track LIVE updates) The crowd broke into an impromptu dance as the 40-year-old YSR Congress chief came out wearing […]
Militants say they are ‘holding out’ in Kenya mall
Nairobi: Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group said today its militants were still holed up in a Kenyan shopping mall they attacked at the weekend and there were “countless dead bodies”, raising fears the death toll could be higher than 62. Kenyan security forces were searching for the Al Qaeda-linked attackers who are believed by Western sources […]
Obama Nominates Puneet Talwar to Key State Dept. Post
By Indiawest United States: President Barack Obama Sept. 10 nominated Puneet Talwar to the position of assistant secretary for political-military affairs in the State Department. He currently serves as special assistant to the president and senior director for Iran, Iraq and the Gulf States on the White House National Security Staff, a post he has held […]
India test-fires Agni V with range as far as China
India has successfully conducted the second test-flight of Agni 5 – country’s most potent nuclear capable inter-continental ballistic missile — from Wheeler’s Island, off Odisha coast. The missile, which is capable of reaching deep into China and as far as Europe, was test-fired from a mobile launcher at 8.48 am and started rising exactly the […]
Miss America crowns first Indian American winner, Nina Davuluri
Miss America 2014 was crowned Sunday night in Atlantic City, N.J.: She’s Nina Davuluri, the first Indian American to take the crown. It was the second year in a row that a young woman from New York was named Miss America. Davuluri, 24, competed in outfits including an animal-print bikini (pardon us, swimsuit) and a bright yellow evening […]
Import duty on gold jewellery hiked to 15%
New Delhi: India increased its import duty on gold jewellery from 10 per cent to 15 per cent, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, setting it higher than the duty on raw gold in a move to protect the domestic jewellery industry. “To protect the interests of small artisans, the customs duty on articles of […]
Rajasthan minister accused of rape by 27-year-old woman, FIR registered
Jaipur: Bapu Lal Nagar, a minister in the Gehlot government in Rajasthan, has been accused of rape by a 27-year-old woman. The Jaipur-based woman says Mr Nagar, the Minister for Dairy and Rural Industries, called her to his house on September 11, confined her to a room, beat her up, and then raped her. Fearing the […]
Indians Now Third Largest Immigrant Population in U.S.
By Indiawest United States:The 1.86 million Indian immigrants who were living in the U.S. in 2011 represented the third-largest immigrant group by country of origin behind Mexico and China, according to a new study by the Migration Policy Institute. The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign-born in the U.S. has increased from less than […]
Boom Boom Wins Women’s Cricket Cup
SUGAR LAND: Women’s Cricket Cup (WCC) took place in New Territory on August 24 and 25. With a Tri-Angular format tournament, the three participating teams were HotShots, Minions and Boom Boom. On Saturday the Women teams played round matches and on Sunday the Semi-Final and Final was played. The tournament standings: 1st Place – Boom […]
PM expected to approve joint grand targeted operation in Karachi
KARACHI: Sources at the Prime MInister’s secratariat said that Premier Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif woud give approval of a joint grand targeted operation during Tuesday’s meeting of the federal cabinet to be held in Karachi to finally decide regarding steps for peace in the port city. The joint operation would include personnel of Rangers, FC and Sindh […]
Microsoft to acquire Nokia Corp, to pay $7.2 bn for its device business
Microsoft is buying Nokia’s devices and services business, and getting access to the company’s patents, for a total of 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion) in an effort to expand its share of the smartphone market, the companies announced late Monday. Microsoft will pay 3.79 billion euros ($5 billion) for the Nokia unit that makes mobile phones, including its […]
Sexual assault case: Asaram Bapu blames media for arrest
Jodhpur: Religious preacher Asaram Bapu, who has been accused of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in one of his ashrams, today blamed the media for his arrest and sought bail on grounds that he was unwell.The 75-year-old has to spend his second night in the Jodhpur Central jail as a hearing on his bail plea will continue […]
India raises British Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘mistake’ in Syria speech
New Delhi: British Prime Minister David Cameron mistakenly named India among countries which had concluded that Syrian regime forces were behind a chemical attack near Damascus, India’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. New Delhi took note of the lapse during Cameron’s August 29 speech to lawmakers in London, in which he called for Britain to join military […]
Cathy Bissoon: First U.S. South Asian Woman Federal Judge
By Indiawest United States: According to her court biography, Judge Cathy Bissoon, who is of Hispanic and Indian American descent, was appointed by a panel of judges in Pennsylvania as a magistrate judge and sworn in Aug. 1, 2008, becoming the first woman of South Asian descent to sit on a federal bench in the U.S. […]
