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Many South Asians had joined the millions of people of diverse races, ethnicities, backgrounds and ages, as they took to the streets in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington. “I knew it was going to be big, but I had no idea that it could escalate into this big...

Indian National Overseas Congress president (INOC), Lavika Bhagat Singh, who was battling cancer for over a year has expired. Indian National Overseas Congress members have expressed their shock and condolences on the sad demise of their president. Expressing his condolences, All India Congress Committee Vice President Rahul Gandhi said that...

Two Indian snake hunters have been hired by the Florida wildlife officials to get rid of the Burmese pythons, which are wiping out small mammal populations, driving nearly to extinction in a tropical wetland in the US state. Masi Sadaiyan and Vaidivel Gopal, both in their 50s, are from...

Three Indian Americans were awarded Padma shri in the year 2017. TV Asia Chairman H.R. Shah, sitar and surbahar player and composer Imrat Khan, and MIT professor and CEO of edX Anant Agarwal The Indian-Americans are the only Non Resident Indians who have found place in this year’s list. Padma...

Smitha Haneef, the India-born director of campus dining at Princeton University’s campus serves more than three million meals a year to its students through their residential dining halls, campus-wide athletic banquets, food truck, reunion activities and a host of other campus events is Princetons top chef The Ivy League university...

Four prominent Indian Americans from Chicago has participated as the official representatives of the Indian American Business Council at the Pravasi Haryana Divas in Gurgaon, Delhi, India. The representatives are Poonam Gupta-Krishnan, Harish Kolasani, Keerthi Kumar Ravoori and Chacko Kurian. They had interacted with the government ministers and high-ranking officials...

The Indus Entrepreneurs Houston Chapter has announced that Dr. Arun Pasrija, will be its new TiE Houston President succeeding John S. Reale, Jr.,. who will remain on the Board of Directors. “I am proud to take on this role to continue the progress made under JR and Aruna Viswanathan’s leadership”,...

Members of the Indian American community in New Jersey had held a fundraiser for gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy in Colonia. Murphy, was recently the United States Ambassador to Germany under the Obama Administration and an executive at Goldman Sachs, had declared his candidacy in 2016. Murphy is seen as...

The Chevron Houston Marathon is a world-class event that attracts athletes from over 40 states in the US and many countries around the globe. The 2017 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon has featured 27,000 registered participants, 7,500 volunteers and over 200,000 spectators, making it the largest...

Thousands of demonstrators have filled the downtown Los Angeles streets with signs decrying President Donald Trump and chanted in English and Spanish as the city’s diverse religious, ethnic and LGBT groups marched in solidarity on Jan 21 with the women marchers on Washington. The massive gathering took place around California,...