Obama appoints Indian-American fund raiser to key post
Washington: US President Barack Obama has appointed a top Indian-American fund raiser, who worked for his re-election campaign, to a key administration post. San Francisco philanthropist, Azita Raji, who reportedly raised more than USD 3 million in contributions in 2011-2012 re-election campaign of Obama, has been appointed as Member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowship. The announcement came along with nine other appointments
18 US students to visit India for IT projects
New York: Eighteen students from the University of Michigan US will spend eight weeks in India in the summer of 2014 to work on various information technology projects. They will be going to India under the Global Information Engagement Programme of
Two Indians shot dead in US
Washington: Two Indians have been shot dead by masked men at a convenience store in the US. The victims have been identified as 55-year-old Jagtar Bhatti and 20-year-old Pawan Singh. The incident happened at the store in the 400 Block of Middlebury S
Indian-American named judge in California
Washington: A leading Indian American lawyer, Sunil R. Kulkarni, has become the first South Asian American state judge in Northern California with his appointment to Santa Clara County Superior Court. Palo Alto, California, resident Kulkarni, 41 who
US-Russia relation has hit a wall: Obama
Washington: US President Barack Obama acknowledged that the US-Russia relationship has hit a wall, but asserted that he has not given up on improving ties with it. "There's no doubt that, as I indicated a while back, we've kind of hit
1984 riots: US court summons Sonia Gandhi
New York: On a complaint by a Sikh group, a federal court in New York has issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for "shielding and protecting" the leaders of her party who were allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh riots in India
Indian techie gets 8.5 lakh for finding Facebook bug
Boston: Facebook had a security bug that could be exploited to delete any image on the social networking site posted by anyone, without the original poster's knowledge and approval.
Interestingly, an Indian electronics and communications engineer, A
Indian-American Swati in race for US Congress
New York: Indian-American Swati Dandekar of Democratic Party has announced her candidacy for the 1st Congressional District of Iowa. Dandekar is a former Iowa legislator representing the Marion area in the Iowa House of Representatives from 200
An Indian-American US President, that's my legacy: Ami Bera
New Delhi: Indian-American US CongressmanAmi Bera has said that seeing a member of the community as the President of the United States in his life time will be the true legacy he can leave behind. The 48-year-old California-born Democratic lawmaker,
