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The 28th annual Skokie Festival of Cultures drew in large scores of attendees to Oakton Park last weekend for two days of live Cultural entertainment, Multicultural cuisine and family fun. The Festival of Cultures took place on Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20, 2018 from 11 a.m. to...

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business’ team Sanguis, featuring two Indian American graduate students Divyansh Agarwal and Prateek Agarwal along with Daniel Zhang, was named the winner of its annual Startup Challenge, formerly known as the Wharton Business Plan Competition. According to a university press release, the team...

Influential economics scholar Sendhil Mullainathan, 45, will be joining the University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty July 1, as a “University Professor” leaving his current position as the Robert C. Wagoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mullainathan’s research spans broad areas of economics: behavioral, labor, public economics...

A 27-year-old Rajkot woman lodged a complaint against his Non-Resident Indian spouse for abandoning her right after their wedding ceremony four years ago. Tulja Chandhubhai Kansara, on Friday charged against her husband and in-laws under Domestic violence Act at Mahila Police Station asserting that her husband Bonny and in-laws, Pravinbhai...

Officials of United States issued an apology after security department at Detroit airport urged a Canadian Cabinet Minister to remove his turban. Navdeep Singh Bains, Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development described the incident saying, “I went through all the security checks without revealing identity as a minister....

To forestall misuse of Non-Residential Indian allotment seats for admission to postgraduate medical courses in private medical colleges of the state, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences has demanded testimony of NRIs and sponsors of NRIs to determine the eligibility of applicants. The sponsors are required to provide evidence of...

Non-Resident Indian, Chaava Padma Proclaimed of donating Rs. 10 lakh for building Andhra Pradesh’s capital city, Amaravati. “We are sensing the way government is showing discrimination to Andhra Pradesh. Though settled at America, the bond I share with my homeland made me do this,” said NRI Chaava Padma. She further added,...

Commencing on April 2, 2018, USCIS is starting to accept H-1B petition subject to the financial year 2019 cap. It is going to temporary suspend premium processing for all cap subject 2019 petition for financial year 2019. This includes petition seeking for an exemption for individual with us master's...

News from Mumbai where, all suspicious oversea remittances by NRIs (nonresident Indians) and irregular fund moments within their bank account are put under scanner. In the past 3 months, more than 50 NRIs have been known to have received Notice from the enforcement directorate, having them to explain the source...

Indian American lawyer Ravinder Singh Bhalla has acknowledge of facing death threats after an unidentified man left a bag in his office. Three months ago, he was elected as the first Sikh mayor of Hoboken city in New Jersey. According to a statement from the the Hoboken City Council, "A...