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Aziz Ansari has become the first Asian and the first Indian-American to win Golden Globe for best actor on a night Oprah lights up speculation on White House 2020. The US-born son of immigrants from Chennai, Ansari, won the award for comedy series 'Master of None'. He played role of...

Aruna Miller, an Indian-American politician, has filed nomination from a Congressional seat in Maryland to run for the US Congress. Four others, of which one include Afghan- American Nadia Hashimi, are part of the race. Currently, the 53-year-old Miller is one of the members of Maryland House of Delegates. She...

Yet another setback for President Donald Trump's proposal to curb H-1B visa extensions! The Trump administration's reported plan for the changes in H1B visa rules faces opposition from Congressmen. The advocacy groups and a few US lawmakers criticised that the new plan could drain America of talent, due to...

An Indian-American student, pleaded guilty of launching a huge cyberattack on a United States university's computer network. He along with two others created a giant botnet that badly affected the internet and systems of the university. The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, that Paras Jha, 21 (New Jersey) was...

An cardiologist of Indian-American origin, got arrested in Nevada, USA. He was charged for unlawful distribution of prescription opioids as well as healthcare fraud. The accused identified as Dr Devendra Patel, appeared before a federal court today, in Reno city, Nevada. In total Dr. Patel has been charged with 36...

Ahmedabad, India: Many Gujarati NRI’s are heading to India to boost BJP in the coming state elections this week. They are here to assist in the poll prospects for BJP in the region. This is a step to show their support for their fellow Gujarati ; PM Sri Narendra Modi. This...

Despite much criticism of GST or the Goods and Service Tax, it is now gaining popularity not just in India but abroad as well. Initially the complexities in GST caused a lot of stir among tax professionals, but now having mastered the concepts, these chartered accounting professionals are in...

The prestigious Kennedy Center has received seed money grant of $1 million for creating an 'Indian Fund' to facilitate Indian cultural performances for next several years. Ranvir Trehan and Adarsh Trehan, The well known philanthropist couple of Indian American origin have made this donation recently towards establishing the ‘India Fund’...

Twitter along with few others had submitted a paper asking the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider its plan to end net neutrality. Mr. Ajit Pai, who is FCC’s Indian-origin Chairman has called the micro-blogging site Twitter, as a “part of the problem”. Late on tuesday, Tech Crunch reported that...

On Thursday, Home Minister Rajnath Singh urged Mr.Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. To adopt 1000 indian villages in Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand that are affected by Violence due to left wing extremism (Maoism). He has asked him to make them “model villages” by focusing on proper sanitation and...