US text book row: California not to replace 'India' with 'South Asia'

A California commission -- mandated with recommendation and revision of school text books -- has rejected demands of replacing India with South Asia for pre-1947 references, which had become a......

Honour for Indian American who feeds 2,000 slum kids

Sheela Murthy, founder, president, and managing attorney of the Baltimore County, Maryland-based Murthy Law Firm, will be honoured by the Children's Guild with its 2012 Sadie Award for her......

New York remembers Mumbai victims

In a rare gesture of solidarity with the Indian Americans, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and a few other officials came to the Ganesh Temple in Flushing,......

8 all-rounders win US Congressional gold medals

Shefali Kotta Madhusudhan, who graduated last month from West Windsor Plainsboro High School South, New Jersey, has put in more than 800 hours work in community volunteering, personal development,......

'Nanotech holds key to the future'

Nanotechnology is the new frontier of scientific research. President APJ Abdul Kalam is advocating new initiative on the research in the field of nanotechnology. As Prof. CNR Rao, chairman of the......