A multi-party delegation of Indian Parliamentarians is in New York to participate in a leadership programme, under which they will discuss pressing global issues, including climate change and sustainable development, with the American leaders and experts. The group of 13 MPs, both from the ruling coalition and opposition, arrived at the Yale university on Sunday to attend the four-day long programme, complemented by two-days of meetings, discussions and interactions.
Renu Khator,president, University of Houston, and chancellor of the UH System, looks back at the voices that have shaped her life, and realises that the loudest is her mother's.
What should one choose to do, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
An Indian-American scientist is developing a technology with high temperature superconducting wires that would revolutionise the way power is generated, transported and used in the US. Venkat Selvamanickam, director of the Applied Research Hub and the MD Anderson chair professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, said, "The goal of my research is to modernise the power grid with high temperature superconducting wires to improve efficiency."
The campaign aims to raise 1.25 billion pounds, and begins at a high profile international event in London on Wednesday. The launch event at the British Academy features the university's chancellor Lord Chris Patten, and vice-chancellor John Hood. Oxonians from various fields and countries have been roped in to raise funds that will be used to meet rising costs and steep competition from American universities.
United States President Barack Obama has felicitated Indian-American scientist Thomas Kailath with the top presidential medal for transformative contributions to the fields of science and technology.
A fun filled trip to Peru and Colombia.
Kunal Kamran participated in the Geeta Asharam movement.
The exhibition of artefacts -- in physical and digital form -- has been set up on the same floor where the leaders' meetings took place.
The New York lawmaker, who is the co-chair of the Friends of India Caucus in the US Senate, said in her missive conveying greetings that 'Diwali is an annual festival of lights signifying universal love, peace, giving and caring. The glitter and splendor of lights which illuminate the dark sky on this day symbolizes the brightness of the future.'
19-year-old Indian-American pre-med student Atul Nakhasi is suddenly the darling of Democratic Presidential candidates.
In an unprecedented act of philanthropy to an American academic institution, the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has given a $2 million grant to the University of Pennsylvania's Centere for the Advanced Study of India, headed by Devesh Kapur, to support its research on international migration from India.This is the first time the ministry has ever awarded an empirical research grant of this magnitude to an academic institution outside India.
Duped by an American university, a harassed group of Indian students has met the Consul General in San Francisco seeking help to complete their studies and claimed that they have not violated any law.
United States President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Indian American Manish S Shah to serve on the United States District Courts judgeship for the Northern District of Illinois.
With a United States jury handing down a guilty verdict in the trial of Dharun Ravi who secretly filmed his gay roommate's sexual encounter, Indian-Americans in Washington have launched a White House petition campaign, saying the boy been robbed of one of the most fundamental rights: "presumption of innocence".
American economic historian and labour economist Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Economics Prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 was awarded to 77-year-old Claudia Goldin "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes" the prize-giving body said in a statement. Goldin will receive 11 million Swedish kronor, or around $1 million, as the sole winner of this year's prize.
Aam Aadmi Party founder Arvind Kejriwal reached out to Indian Americans in the Bay Area via videoconference last week.
Prominent Indian-American politician Nikki Haley launched her presidential campaign on Tuesday, becoming the first Republican to challenge former US President Donald Trump in his 2024 bid for the White House.
Meet the Indian-American deans, who have established their leadership and managerial skills taking up high-profile jobs at prestigious institutes.
First suggested by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago, the paradox deals with the effects of time in the context of travel at near the speed of light.
In his first trip to the US in 1960, Atal Bihari Vajpayee befriended a young IFS officer posted in the permanent mission of India to the UN and explored New York with him, visiting museums, art galleries and even nightclubs, says a new biography of the former prime minister.
The prime minister, wearing an especially customised white yoga T-shirt and trousers, began his address with a 'Namaste' and thanked people for coming here from far away to attend the celebration.
In analysing census data from 2007-2011, researchers found that the at-birth sex ratios of Asian Americans are the same as white Americans. Arthur J Pais reports
Miss World 2024 will be crowned in India soon. Long before Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra, Yukta Mukhey and Diana Hayden, a beautiful woman from Bombay was crowned Miss World. In 1966. Reita Faria was India's first Miss World. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/ Rediff.com met the 80 year old in Dublin recently, still as elegant, still as attractive as she was all those years ago.
Within six months, outlets carrying Vicks jumped from 60,000 pharmacies to 750,000 general stores. The trade boycott collapsed. Consumers were happy, finding Vicks now at every street corner. A fascinating excerpt from Gurcharan Das's Another Sort of Freedom.
"Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton represent the values and ideals of America." "After long quarrels, it is finally getting close to being over." George Joseph hears from voters.
An IIT Roorkee graduate, Chandran joins a distinguished group of 24.
Indian-American California Attorney General Kamala Harris has won a major endorsement for her Senate bid from top Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Brand India's societal divisions and distortions have remained as much relevant in 'liberal' America and Europe as it still is in the structurally stratified Indian society of the 21st century, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The independent Centre for Politics at the University of Virginia moved his seat (California 7th Congressional District) from a "tossup" to a "Lean Democratic" which means that Bera has now greater chances of winning the seat by defeating the incumbent Dan Lungren of Republican Party.
Dr Rajiv Shah, Administrator, United States Agency for International Development, in his commencement address to the students of American University School of International Service emphasised the importance of development work and public service.
60 per cent of respondents believe that authorities should be allowed to single out people who look like 'Middle Eastern' for security screening.
According to records, at least 5 victims were defrauded.
A dream that began in eigth grade comes true after years of hard work for this father-son duo.
An Indian origin scientist, accused of falsifying claims of producing nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments, has been reprimanded and sanctioned by a leading American University.
Prime Minister Narendra D Modi's itinerary for his June 21-24 US visit could include an address to a fledgling business advocacy group, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum.
American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
The presence of more Indian Americans in the team has made the whole community proud.
"Our bilateral engagement with the United States has witnessed remarkable transformation and has matured into a strategic partnership of global dimensions," Rao said in her speech at the American University on 'India's role in a Changing World'
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