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Members of the Sikh Religious society will honored Frank Avila, commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) with a plaque at the Sikh Gurdwara in Palatine, Ill., on Feb. 19, for his help to the community. Avila was honored by the Sikh Religious Society board...

Indian-American Democratic Party activist and small-business owner in New Jersey, Vin Gopal, has formally announced his run for the New Jersey state Senate. Gopal has recently stepped down after serving four years as the chair of the Monmouth County Democratic Party. He is credited with engineering several electoral victories...

A Chicago-based non-profit organization, the Indian American Business Council has hosted the Spring Business Leaders Meet with Fullbright specialist Dr. Manu Vora as the keynote speaker. The event was held on Feb. 16 at the Holiday Inn in Rolling Meadows. H1-B visa confusion prompts Indians to cancel plans to buy...

The Trump administration has detailed the plans for a sweeping crackdown on the undocumented immigrants, saying that the authorities would deport many more people without court hearings. Trump would lower the bar to include fraud and in some cases, a belief the residents threatened public safety. H1-B visa holders...

Indian American ex-CIA officer Sabrina De Sousa, who is a native of India and holds a Portuguese and U.S. nationality, made another unsuccessful attempt to visit her relatives in India from Portugal. She was arrested on Feb. 20, in Lisbon, in relation to a 2003 kidnapping of a Egyptian...

Deportation of an estimated 11.1 million illegal immigrants in the United States is ordered by the Trump administration, that includes 5 lakh illegal Indian immigrants. In 105 years between 1892 and 1997, the US has deported 2.1 million people. Under the Presidentship of George W. Bush, over 2 million...

Mohini Jain Family Foundation’s president and founder, Mohini Jainhas donated $1.5 million to the University of California, Davis, to for the study on Jainism, that is considered as one of the world’s most revered and ancient philosophies. This will make Mohini Jain as the Presidential Chair for Jain Studies in...

Indian American doctors discuss Affordable Care Act and has been attacked and defended mainly on a partisan basis. Critics and supporters as well as consumers, have picked holes in the implementation of this system that brought an unprecedented number of Americans under the health insurance umbrella. Republicans who control...

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) expressed deep concern about the latest report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) examining India’s constitution and national and state laws on the religious freedom of minority communities and Dalits. The report, “Constitutional and Legal Challenges Faced by Religious Minorities...

Americans are more positive towards Hinduism, a new survey by the Pew Research Center, found that feelings for Muslims and atheists are still neutral, and have improved from being “chilly” when the last survey was taken in 2014. The survey finds that regarding religion, Americans express more positive feelings toward...