Just a few days before the final nomination date, attorney Harmeet K Dhillon, chair, San Francisco Republican Central Committee, was at the state registrar's office to see who was running from where in California.
Obama also renewed his call to for tightening gun control measures.
The June 5 US presidential primary elections though did not give a lead to any Asian Indian candidates vying election from California, but they are lucky to run for the general election in November thanks to the open primary rule that was adopted by the state.
With the goal of inspiring and preparing every eligible citizen to vote, the American state of California has for the first time ever provided a new voter page that carried ballot information in Hindi for the June 5 primary election.
The new California governor also invoked emergency powers to impose US $150 million in spending cuts without legislature's approval.
Flight attendants, football coaches, renegade robots, underwater superheroes, it's all there on OTT this week.
Harmeet Dhillon, vice chairwoman of the California Republican Party, delivered the Sikh prayer on the national stage in Punjabi and then translated it into English.
Reader Vivek Soni sends us a photograph.
Here's a look at some Indian-origin athletes who will be representing their adopted countries at the Paris Games
Governor Gray Davis has conceded defeat in the recall vote.
Harris, with only 14 percent saying they would prefer another option, has an overwhelming 70 percent of Democratic voters support, the New York Times cited the poll as saying.
Come January 2009, Sunder Ramaswamy, Middlebury College dean for faculty development and research and Frederick C Dirks Professor of International Economics, will be the new president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, USA
Colombia, who have qualified for the quarter-finals, top Group D with six points after two matches, with Brazil in second on four points.
Students enrolled to Silicon Valley University, California, are in a state of panic after some of them were barred by Air India to board its flight.
Kamala Harris used her forceful presidential acceptance speech to present herself as a leader who could unite the country to chart a 'new way forward' and warned Americans of 'extremely serious' consequences of putting her Republican rival Donald Trump back in the White House.
In a pivotal turn of events, the New York Court of Appeals has overturned renowned Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction, marking a significant development in the legal saga that unfolded in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
The two major parties offer the United States choices that are basically unacceptable and the bench strength, such as it is, is not entirely capable of winning popular acclaim, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
'India has established probable cause to prosecute him for his role in terrorist attacks that resulted in 166 deaths and 239 injuries'
Two of the people arrested are mafia members who are "wanted on a number of murders" in India.
Indian-origin US actor Shelley Malil has been booked on suspicion of attempted murder, mayhem and burglary in connection with an attack that San Diego authorities said left his ex-girlfriend in a critical condition with 20 stab wounds.
The US needs to understand that it could potentially lose out on attracting several Netravalkars in the future if it curbs the influx of such industrious Indian immigrants, argues Vishal Menon.
'Kamala likes south Indian food.' 'She likes a special rasam which her husband also likes, she likes coconut rice, she likes puri aloo...'
Director Wilson Lois' Holding Back, a film about a mother of a terminally ill cancer patient, has won international acclaim.
Sandeep Baweja, an attorney with the Baweja Law Group, with offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Irvine Public Schools Foundation.
US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination becoming the first Indian-American to win the nomination from a major political party, and chose Minnesota Gov Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday.
Pradeep Singh, of California who is absconding, is facing multiple charges of grand theft after he duped nearly two dozen families by signing lease agreements with them for his house.
'Cricket as a pathway in the US was not something people thought about 10 years ago, even like five years ago.' 'But now that there is a pathway you can see.'
The actor is also a martial artist and stuntwoman.
As part of a post-judgment agreement, the SBE has agreed to pay part of HAF's legal costs for the 2006 lawsuit.
More than 10,000 people attended the 10th annual Diwali event hosted by the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce and its Asian American Business Council at Memorial Park in Cupertino, California, on October 13.
It may be winter but that does not mean their bikinis are far away.
The California Republican Party on Sunday elected Indian born Harmeet Dhillon as their vice chair, making her the first woman as well as first person of Indian descent to be elected for such a senior position. The election was held at the CRP 2013 Spring Convention in Sacramento with over 1000 delegates. The party delegates also elected Jim Brulte as CRP chairman.
During his two-day stay in Silicon Valley, he would begin and conclude his engagements with the Indian-American community, the last one being an address to a crowd of over 18,500 Indian-Americans at the SAP Centre in San Jose.
The actress was there with her daughter, Esha.
Gauff survives scare, Osaka advances
A 56-year-old man and his teenage daughter Indian-Americans- were burnt to death
This is the car major's second coming in India.
'The consensus was that the debate was between looking backward and looking forward.' 'Trump, with his great enamourment of his own 'achievements,' was obviously looking backward, while Harris, nearly 20 years his junior, was focussing on the future, with hope,' notes Shreekant Sambrani.
Stuffed with plenty of crunchy veggies, this dish requires very little cooking.
