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In 1859, Charles Darwin has included a novel tree of life in his trailblazing book on the theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species. Scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and their international collaborators are trying to reshape Darwin’s tree. A new era in science has emerged without a clear...

Ask Katie McHugh knows the bitter fact of tweeting only too well by now. The conservative news website Breitbart has fired one of their most prolific writers after a series of tweets by her, loaded with more than a mere speck of racism and racist innuendoes. Infosys Engineer and his...

An Indian man, Nagaraju Surepalli, 31, who was on a work visa as a software engineer for Infosys, and his 3-year-old son, Ananth Surepalli, has drowned in the community pool at the Glens of Northville apartment complex in Novi, Michigan. They are survived by Surepalli’s wife Bindu, 29. According to...

The Ambassador of India to the United Nations,Syed Akbaruddin, has spoken and interacted with a classroom full of seventh graders, at Castle Hill Middle School 127 in Bronx, New York. “I’ve been to many schools, public and private, and I’ve never had a welcome like this,” he said.Akbaruddin told the...

The future appeared promising and certain for Sunil Sreekumar Nair. A British citizen, he was completing a residency in internal medicine at a Brooklyn hospital and had accepted a job in a hospital near Fort Smith, Arkansas, a rural area with a severe shortage of doctors. After the Trump administration...

CNN anchor, Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo became the target of rebuke for assuming that the 2017 national spelling champion, a California resident Indian american, is “used to using” Sanskrit. Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo while talking to 12-year-old Ananya Vinay on “New Day” after Ananya’s victory at the Scripps...

Thamizh Schools USA, is a registered 501 (3) non-profit organization accredited by the Illinois State Educational Board, has conducted its 10th annual day function at Hinsdale South High School, Darien, IL on May 13. This was a fully volunteer-driven event put together by the earnest efforts of the teachers...

ISKCON Naperville, has held the bhumipuja or ground-breaking ceremony of on May 21. The temple is currently in an old building that was acquired by the ISKCON about seven years back. As the popularity of the temple grew in the area, the devotee and visitor base expanded considerably and...

Dr. Dipak Shah and Dr. Sheela Shah has organized the 7th annual music program to benefit the Blind Foundation for India (BFI) at the Avery Coonley School’s Performing Arts Center, Downers Grove, Illinois. The evening had melodious songs sung by Dr. Dipak Shah and Dr. Sheela Shah. Dinkar Mehta, a...

South Asian Judge Amul Thapar was confirmed to be the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 52-44 vote. The South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA) has congratulated Thapar for becoming the second South Asian judge to be on a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. New York...