US lawmakers seek more internal-security cooperation with India

California, United States (May 11, 2013): It is learnt that an elderly Sikh named Piara Singh was attacked few days back at Fresno Gurdwara in California. Piara Singh (82) was returning from the Gurudwara Sahib when he was hit by a youth with iron rod in an ...

Congressman Joe Crowley, who is the Co-Chair of Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, has launched a major effort among lawmakers asking the Department of Justice and the FBI to trac...

Ami Bera, the only Indian-American Congressman in the US House of Representatives, has said that the newly-constituted 'American Sikh Congressional Caucus' will deal only with domestic civil rights issue. Bera's revised statement, three days after he publicly announced to join the Caucus, is considered to allay concerns of the Indian Government that the newly-made Caucus in the United States carries some individuals and groups, who in the past had indulged in anti-India activities including the ...

28 Congressmen had joined hands at the Capitol Hill in Washington to establish the first Sikh American Congressional Caucus in the US House of Representatives, with the objective of fighting hate crimes the community has

Ami Bera, the lone Indian-American lawmaker, has joined the newly formed American Sikh Congressional Caucus, saying he was solely motivated by concerns about incidents of hate crimes against the community.Indian officials had pressed Bera and some other US ...

Citing India's "increasingly important role on the global stage", the co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans have stressed the importance of US-India relations to the Obama administration."As India plays an increasingly ...

Sikh Congressional Caucus has clarified that he remains a "proud member" of the India caucus and his support for the Sikh group is driven purely by domestic concerns relating to hate crimes against Sikhs. "The memory of the tragedy at Oak Creek is ...

Ahead of the India-US Strategic Dialogue, a bi-partisan group of over a dozen influential lawmakers from the powerful Congressional India Caucus today called for better American co-operation and support to New Delhi on homeland security and counter-terrorism ...

WASHINGTON: Both Indian IT professionals and Indian-American doctors have appealed to US Congress for immigration reforms that will allow more visas and green cards to be awarded. Observing that nearly 30 per cent of all companies started in the US ...