A civil lawsuit has been filed against a school district in California seeking to suspend a controversial yoga programme which parents feel 'unlawfully' promote religious beliefs.
A US court has allowed teaching yoga in a Southern California district school as part of curriculum, rejecting the petition by parents that the ancient Indian practice is promoting Hindu religious beliefs.
Indian Consulate General in San Francisco has been in touch with members of the Indian community, many of whom had to evacuate their properties. India has expressed regret over the loss of life and damage to property in the fire in southern California that began on Sunday and has destroyed over 384 square miles of area.
According to all accounts, Neel Tushar Kashkari was well received at the California Republican Party Convention -- his first major public exposure after formally declaring his candidacy in January for governor of California
A recently released reports shows that California, a state in the US, consumes more petrol and diesel for transportation fuel than any other nation on Earth, save the United States!
Sonal prefers breakfast in the pool... Gul flies a plane...Karishma is in Turkiye...
The chaplain Rajan Zed, after reciting the original lines in Sanskrit, then read the English translation of the verses.
We had asked our readers to send us photos of their Ganesha. We received many entries, some of which are being showcased here.
Raveena is 'lost'... Nia makes California look hot...What's Vikrant celebrating?
Atlantis' flight path brought it over San Diego and just east of Los Angeles before it touched down at Edwards where it was greeted by fair skies and light winds.
A jury in Orange County, California, has sentenced Vitaliy Krasnoperov in the 2007 double homicide case, in which Anaheim Hills resident Jayprakash Dhanak, 56, and his daughter Karishma, 20, were murdered and their bodies burnt. Dhanak's wife Leela, 54, was also severely injured and was in a coma for months after the attack. Ritu Jha reports.
At least five persons were killed and several others wounded in a shooting at a college in Southern California, some three miles away from where US President Barack Obama was attending a fundraiser.
The duo have been instrumental in the success of films like Cocktail, Beautiful and Trivandrum Lodge, in recent times.
'I love the country and the people so very much. My children grew up watching Om Shanti Om.'
One of two newly elected members and the first Indian American elected to the board, she has a four-year term ahead.
A robbery occurred at a Sikh temple in Livingston city of California on Sunday. The Livingston police suspects that the robbery was done by people who knew about the temple's wherabouts.
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In yet another shooting incident in the United States, at least two people were shot on Thursday at a California high school while the suspected shooter, believed to be a student armed with a shotgun, was taken into custody.
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.
India will never provide company or enterprise-specific incentives in the electric vehicle sector, a top government official said on Friday, amid a push from American electric carmaker Tesla for special sops to set up its factory in the country. If the government has to consider providing incentives then it will only be for all EV makers and entrants who want to come to India, the official said. The official added that inter-ministerial discussions have happened on the customs duty concession demand of the US-based electric car maker Tesla, but "we never" came to any conclusion on those.
Obama also renewed his call to for tightening gun control measures.
A bill to educate law enforcement officers about the religious significance of 'kirpans' has been vetoed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who found it 'unnecessary', drawing angry reaction from the Sikh community in the United States.
The company is accused of making a series of false promises and intentional misrepresentations.
Britain's Prince Harry will attend the coronation of his father King Charles III next month, but his wife Meghan will remain in the United States with the couple's children, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday.
Nearly nine months after Devarajan Kalathat killed five family members before turning the gun on himself at their townhouse in Santa Clara, California, Aabha Appu is clueless about the reason behind her husband's murder spree.Aabha remembers nothing unusual about that night, when her brother and sister-in-law and their 11-month-old daughter came over for dinner. They had finished dinner when Devarajan went upstairs. He returned brandishing two .45-caliber handguns.
About 720 of Reagan's family and friends, including former British premier Margaret Thatcher, attended the burial ceremony.
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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.
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.
Tata Group is set to become India's first homegrown iPhone maker after Taiwan's Wistron Group agreed to sell a plant in Bengaluru to India's largest conglomerate. Wistron's board approved the sale of Wistron InfoComm Manufacturing (India) Private Ltd to Tata Electronics for $125 million, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer said in a statement on Friday. The unit operates an iPhone assembly plant near Bengaluru.
Six Indians were reportedly killed in a suspected case of murder-suicide in Santa Clara, California on Sunday night. Though the police refused to confirm their identities, news reported claimed that the victims were natives of Wayanad district in Kerala.The deceased were identified as Ayyankoli native Devarajan and his family members Suchitra, Asokan, Akhil, Neha and Ahna.The Santa Clara police remained unavailable for comment.
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.
Dharmesh A Patel of Pasadena, California, will be booked into San Mateo County Jail after he is released from a hospital, the highway patrol said in a statement.
A United States court has denied the writ of habeas corpus filed by Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, paving the way for US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to issue a certification for him to be extradited to India where he is sought for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
The new California governor also invoked emergency powers to impose US $150 million in spending cuts without legislature's approval.
Director Wilson Lois' Holding Back, a film about a mother of a terminally ill cancer patient, has won international acclaim.
Speaking to reporters in her home state of California, Rapinoe said she had known for about a year that this would be the point at which she would be ready to retire.
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
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