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Indian-American families in Nashua, NH, in 1990, Indian diaspora account for 6 percent or approximately 6,000 people, of the city’s nearly 90,000 population, and around half of the Indian-American population here hail from the Southern states of India. “We hope that the Indian-American population continues to grow in Nashua,” said...

More than 9000 devotees and visitors from all over South-East thronged to the Hindu Temple of Atlanta (HTA) Riverdale,Georgia to celebrate the joyous and spiritually suffused Navodaya 2017 festival. Deities of Balaji and Siva wore a dazzling look in their ornate fineries and colorful garlands. The priests cheerfully performed the...

Leaders of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) along with Indian and Hindu American community members from across the country had celebrated the beginning of the 115th Congressional session, which has three new Hindu American members of Congress. HAF was the event partner for an Indian diaspora’s Gala evening celebrating...

Indian American Ajit Pai, a commissioner in the US communications regulatory agency, has met President-elect amid speculation that he may head the body that deals with cellphone spectrum and broadcasting. Trump’s spokesperson Sean Spicer said that the meeting with Pai, who is the Republican nominee on the Federal Communication...

The Indian community is experiencing an unprecedented political success with all of its five elected members being nominated to the key Congressional panels, reported Forbes. Four Indian Americans – Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal, Raja Krishnamoorthi and Kamala Harris – were elected to the US Congress and the fifth, Representative...

All five Democrat Indian American lawmakers have been nominated to the key Congressional panels. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal was elected to the House of Representatives from Seattle and will serve on the House Judiciary Committee, by helping to oversee the federal-court system and law-enforcement agencies. Indian-American congressman Krishna Moorthy in two...

Indian-American Raja Krishna Moorthi, was sworn in as a Member of the US House of Representatives earlier this month and has said that he will be serving in two influential committees. As the voice of Illinois’ Eighth Congressional District, the Democrat will also serve in the House Education and Workforce...

India’s new Ambassador to the United States, Navtej Singh Sarna, has said that, the strength and the standing of the Indian-American community has changed over the years and the community has come of age. “So naturally all of you carry a weight much bigger than your pure numbers of three...

Indian origin child abuse survivor, Amita Swadhin, survivor of years of sexual assault by her father has testified in the U.S. Congress at the Senate hearing for confirming President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions. She has changed her name in 1998, when she was 20,...

Shashi Kant Sharma, Comptroller and Auditor General of India has taken over as the chairman of the United Nations' Board of Auditors from January 1 for a period of two years. Oscar technical award winner is IIT Kharagpur aluminus The Comptroller and Auditor General of India is the lead auditor at...