US lawmakers back Srinivasan's confirmation as top court judge

JEDDAH — Islam is one of the most popular religions in America. It's one of the fastest growing religions among the local community. My radio programs were very popular among the Asian community. Many famous poets from the Indian subcontinent and ...

A top American diplomat would be travelling to India this week ahead of the next month's New Delhi trip of secretary of state John Kerry for the India-US Strategic Dialogue, an official statement has said. In New Delhi on May 24-25, Under secretary ...

To garner support among the Indian-Americans in the United States, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party is organising a convention in Chicago on Saturday. Indian-Americans from across the country are expected to attend the AAP USA convention, which would be addressed live through a video conference by the Aam Aadmi Party founder, Arvind Kejriwal. "We are getting together to underscore the need to take a much stronger stance against corruption," Dr Munish Raizada, member of the AAP Convention ...

The United States is looking to triple the number of Americans going to India for higher studies in the next five years. "That is still far from our goal of 15,000 in five years," Tara Sonenshine, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy ...

"The United States should not sit idly by as the Indian government enacts regulations that harm American industry and jobs," Stephen Ezell, senior analyst at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), said in a paper.

New Orleans, the largest city in Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal's state of Louisiana, that injured 19 people. Police are looking for one Akien Scott who has previous arrests on charges of possession of firearms, possession of narcotics and resisting ...

The family of Sunil Tripathi, the Indian-American student whose body was recovered from the Providence river in the US state of Rhode Island, has said that the 22-year-old had shown signs of depression prior to his disappearance. "He never was clinically diagnosed, but his close family and friends, we definitely knew that he was having some problems with his mood, and it kind of bound us together," Ravi, Sunil's brother told CNN. Tripathi was on leave from BrownUniversity, an Ivy League school, ...

United States President Barack Obama has praised young Indian-American student for her science project at the third annual White House Science Fair in Washington. "We're so proud of you. Keep up the good work," Obama said to 17-year old Meghana Rao from Portland, Oregon, after she explained her project based on 'biochar' (charcoal) to the US President at the annual White House Science Fair in which around 30 student teams from across the country exhibited their projects. American Natural ...

A young Indian-American economist from the Harvard University, whose pioneering work was cited by US President Barack Obama in his last year's State of the Union Address, has won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal, often described as the 'Baby Nobel'.