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Nearly 7,000 people from India filed applications for asylum in the United States earlier this year, according to a report by the United Nations refugee agency. The UN Refugee Agency said in its Global Trends report that 68.5 million people globally were displaced as of the end of 2017. The trend...

The plight of Indian Americans may not be as dramatic as that of the illegal immigrant mother whose infant daughter was allegedly taken from her by immigration officials as she breast-fed her in a detention center. Or as traumatic as that of thousands of young children forcibly separated from...

Dr. Sriprakash Kothari, a top professor of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would chair the second World Hindu Congress that is to be held in Chicago this September, proclaimed by organizers of the mega event. Delegates from over 80 countries estimated at more than 2,000 are expected to attend...

A Young man of native Indian American, residing in Kansas has restored a $1 million lottery ticket to a customer who left it on a store counter says he has no second thoughts in regards to surrendering the prize cash. Kal Patel, whose defender possess the Pit Stop comfort store...

Washington: Forward plans of mid-term surveys in November, political gatherings in the United States territory of Virginia are endeavoring to charm Indian Americans as their inexorably swelling number can assume a key part in choosing the race comes about. When the voting rate in mid-term decisions is descending, the Indian...

Seattle council member Kshama Sawant leads a protest outside the University of Washington. Sawant joined the university labor leaders to demand anti-discrimination training, departmental equity committees, strengthened protections for all workers from discrimination and harassment, and health benefit equity for their trans members. On the one side is Amazon, America’s...

The sounds of the mridangam reverberated the air as women clad in colorful kanjeevarams, their hair adorned with the jasmine, men in traditional veshtis, and young girls in the langa-vonis (half-saris) gathered at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center here, May 26 and 27 for the 44th annual convention hosted...

One person has been arrested while two of his accomplices are wanted for allegedly cheating a real estate developer from Bhiwandi of Rs 65 lakh. The police said the accused had promised the builder, Avinash Patil, Rs 100 crore for his business projects. The accused trio includes an NRI living...

A jury on May 25 indicted a suspect on killing an Indian American man in Hamilton, Ohio on two counts of felony murder. Jaspreet Singh, 32, was shot to death on May 12 while seated in his car. Emergency Medical Technicians arriving at the incident rushed him to Fort Hamilton...

Ahead of June 16th, which is set to mark the 40th annual California 500 Mile American Indian Spiritual Marathon. This year the run will honor Ojibwa warrior and founder Dennis J. Banks. The running teams are a multicultural group of individuals dedicated to preserving the tradition of spiritual running. Their...