A group of Indian workers in the US have filed a lawsuit in a district court against the Swaminarayan sect BAPS, accusing it of human trafficking and wage law violations during the construction of a massive temple in New Jersey.
The California-based social networking giant had 78 million users in India in the January-March period.
Blackstone on Monday said funds managed by the private equity firm will acquire a majority stake in IT firm Mphasis Ltd, triggering an open offer for acquisition of up to 26 per cent stake for about Rs 8,262 crore. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), UC Investments (Office of the Chief Investment Officer of The Regents, University of California) and others will co-invest along with Blackstone, a statement said. Based on the open offer subscription, the blended purchase price will vary between Rs 1,452 to Rs 1,497 per share (12-16 per cent premium to 12-month average price and 3-6 per cent discount to 6-month average price) and the purchase consideration will vary between Rs 15,200 crore to Rs 21,000 crore (approximately$2-2.8 billion), the statement said.
An Indian citizen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiring to support terrorist attacks in India, including assassination of an Indian government official, as part of the Khalistan movement to create an independent Sikh state.
GDA Technologies Inc, a California based leading Electronic Design Services and Silicon Intellectual Property solutions provider, on Monday announced that the company would invest about $3 to 5 million to increase its headcount
Anthony Kreiter-Rhoads of Tracy was arrested Saturday and charged with homicide in the death of Singh.
Nearly 100 Indian-Americans are on the ballot for the midterm elections and have emerged as strong contenders.
Chennai-based business process outsourcing firm in human resources services, Secova eServices plans to ramp up its operations by hiring 165 people in the next one year, its co-founder V Chandrasekaran said.
Netflix and Amazon Prime gain market share at the cost of Indian platforms Hotstar, VOOT, Jio Cinema.
Sikhs For Justice plans to picket Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters during Narendra Modi's September 27 visit.
Last year, Apple had shipped close to 2 million units into India, this year, the target is to reach 3 million units
The actor tweeted a picture on his arrival.
Why are the poor turning Right instead of turning toward far-Left parties, ponders Pranab Bardhan.
A cricket museum based in India has bought a bat auctioned by Pakistan Test captain Azhar Ali to raise funds for the needy during the coronavirus pandemic. He confirmed that Blades of Glory Cricket Museum based in Pune bought the bat by making a winning offer of Rs. 1 million for the bat.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week in images.
IIM Ahmedabad's CIIE signed a MoU with Tata Trust for founding partner for the Bharat Fund, which will provide seed funding to Indian entrepreneurs.
During the short hearing, Justice Prathibha M Singh took strong objection to an email sent by WhatsApp to the court. "I was in any case not going to hear it," the court clarified and sent the matter to another bench recording that the email sent by WhatsApp should be withdrawn unconditionally.
With the US education system operating independently from the government, universities are adopting varying strategies when it comes to Covid vaccination.
More companies can now get the visa rather than very few taking a lion's share.
From Twitter to Facebook to Spotify, everyone it seems is clambering aboard the social audio bandwagon. Neha Alawadhi reports.
'What Kamala Harris' rise and rise underscores is that our old ways of identifying the Indian-American Diaspora need to change...' 'None of this detracts from her Indian-American identity, which makes us feel as if we are Americans too,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Calpers, the largest US pension fund, on Tuesday ruled out investing in some of the world's largest countries, including China, India, Indonesia and Russia, and decided against returning to Malaysia and Thailand.
Brandon Kiel, the deputy director of community affairs for California's Justice Department, which Kamala Harris heads, is currently on administrative leave as he faces charges of impersonating a police officer. Ritu Jha reports
On Sunday morning Eastern US time, four astronauts will zoom into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Commanding the spaceflight is Raja Chari, a United States Air Force colonel.
Whatever be Kamala Harris's preference for her identity, many Indians in the US will rally around her as she is the first person with Indian blood in her veins to get close to the White House, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Yahoo Software Development India Pvt Ltd on Friday announced the appointment of Venkat Panchapakesan as its CEO and Bharat Vijay as COO at its R&D centre in Bangalore.\n\n\n\n
'Second-class citizenship would have been meaningless to a Hindu in the Mughal empire.'
As they stepped outside the airport, one after the other, they appeared sad. Some said they felt dejected that they could not realise their American dream even after several attempts.
From the spread of coronavirus to International Women's Day, these 10 images sum up all the big stories from the previous week.
Up to 90 per cent of the decrease in potential food production is linked to smog, made up of black carbon and other pollutants.
For nearly an hour on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to reach out to the Indian community to share his vision for the country at the SAP Arena in San Jose, California.
The 11 must-knows about Samsung's latest flagship.
Emerging markets like India are a "key source" of growth for Facebook, with increasing number of users logging onto the site through handsets, driving up its advertising revenues 76 per cent to $2.34 billion during the December quarter.
Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, the scion of the House of Mewar has become the first Indian ever to win a trophy at the recently-concluded five-day 62nd annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance event in California.
He said that the whole world being robbed of creativity and ideas because so many people in India are not online.
The only Indian American lawmaker in the United States Congress, Dr Amerish 'Ami' Bera, on Tuesday made his debut as a member of a Congressional Committee that has jurisdiction over matters pertaining to South Asia.
This is 4,000 more than 2016's figure of 46,188 Indian naturalisation and 8,000 more than 42,213 Indian citizenship in 2015.
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