Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan, 45, a brilliant Indian American legal mind, who, in August last year was named principal deputy solicitor general of the United States, succeeding Neal Kumar Katyal, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia.
A student from Saudi Arabia arrested for attempting to blow up nuclear plants in US and the residence of former President George W Bush, appeared in a federal court and pleaded for guilty.
The US women's soccer team's claims for equal pay were dismissed by a court on Friday, handing a victory to the United States Soccer Federation. Judge R Gary Klausner of the United States District Court for the Central District of California threw out players' claims that they were under paid in comparison with the men's national team but allowed complaints of unfair medical, travel and training to proceed to trial.
An American teenager has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he allegedly tried to travel to Turkey to join the Islamic State terror group, officials said.
This would be for the second time that Thapar, son of Indian-American immigrants, might not be able to make the final cut after being interviewed by the US president.
'The Emergency was a temporary affair. It was withdrawn after 20 months.' 'But we are in this situation for the last 10 years.' 'If the Emergency was jhatka, this is halal, slow killing.'
Suspended Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal was paid "commission" by subordinate staff from MGNREGA funds of Khunti district which she and her husband subsequently utilised for acquiring various properties, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed in a statement on Wednesday.
This is first of its kind case that has come to light in the US wherein call centres in India have been used to make fake debt collection calls to the US.
'Let's go back to work,' Acosta told reporters after the US District court reinstated his White House press credentials.
Nevada is the fourth State where the Trump Campaign has filed a lawsuit. United States President Donald Trump, who has 214 votes so far, has filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and demanded recounting of votes in Wisconsin.
Mathew Martoma, a former SAC Capital portfolio manager, faces 20 years in prison for securities fraud and five years for conspiracy
The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments.
Indian-American Vijay Gandhi has become the first member of the community to be sworn in as a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Edward Snowden, a former private contractor with Central Intelligence Agency who leaked details of America's controversial secret surveillance programme, has been charged with espionage and stealing government property.
A 21-year old Bangladeshi man, who came to the United States aiming to 'destroy America', has pleaded guilty to attempting to carry out a terrorist attack for the Al Qaeda at the Federal Reserve Bank here using a 1,000-pound bomb.
More screenings are expected to take place in some colleges in Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram later Tuesday, a senior police officer said.
Additional district and sessions judge Rajitha TH had on May 12 held the 25 accused guilty of the murder of Nooruddin and Hamsa, who were members of the AP Sunni party, a supporter of the Left front.
Austria's loosened lockdown means tennis players can return to the court as long as they stick to coronavirus-related rules - singles only, no touching each other's tennis balls, and definitely no shaking hands at the net.
The court allowed Raut's plea for home food and medicines, but refused to pass an order on his prayer for bedding.
Amul Thapar, 47, had become in 2007 the first South Asian Article III judge when he was appointed as a US District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
The people of Oting in Mon district in the northeastern state said they will erect a monolith in memory of the 14 people on the first anniversary of the killings.
The Attorney Generals from Pennsylvania, New York, California, Illinois said the executive order signed by the US president is "discriminatory", "unconstitutional and un-American".
A Mississippi man was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of sending poison-laced letters to United States President Barack Obama and two other officials.
An American police officer, who brutally assaulted an Indian grandfather and left him partially paralysed, is no longer facing state criminal charges in Alabama.
The lawyer of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, co-accused with Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, on Monday informed a federal court in Chicago that he was preparing for his client's February trial.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley approached the Inter-Services Intelligence to help another co-accused in Mumbai attacks Tahawwur Rana to get back to Pakistan, according to a video recording produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation before a court in Chicago on Monday.
India on Friday rubbished as "frivolous and malicious attempt" the case filed in a New York court against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in 2002 communal riots in Gujarat during his chief ministership, saying "vested interests" have raked up the matter to "vitiate" the atmosphere during his visit.
Trump picked Justice Kavanaugh from his original list of 25 judges, which also included prominent Indian-American judge Amul Thapar, from which he had said he would nominate for any vacancy in the Supreme Court.
An Indian-origin law student has sued Manhattan's top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the US Justice Department claiming she was unlawfully questioned and her cell phone confiscated after she sent letters to the presiding judge during Rajat Gupta's insider trading trial.
A law firm, Izard Nobel LLP, has initiated a lawsuit seeking class action status against the company in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of its investors. The law firm said certain officers and directors of Caraco violated federal securities' laws and interests of the investors by giving misleading information on the business of the company. It has asked the investors to join the suit before September 15 to claim their damages.
Cohen, 52, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
A United States federal court in New York on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by a rights group in connection with the 2002 riots in Gujarat, saying he enjoys immunity as the sitting head of a foreign government.
A woman, who is on trial for allegedly keeping an Indian immigrant as slave in her mansion in upstate New York, told jurors that her late husband made every important decision during the time she allegedly forced her former employee to work as an illegal servant.
She has been called again on Wednesday for a fresh round of grilling.
The 39-year-old was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate from Ranchi after the agency conducted multi-city raids against him, Singhal, her businessman husband Abhishek Jha and others, on May 6.
'The ministry of home affairs has all records of money coming in from abroad.' 'Are they saying money is coming in without their knowledge?' 'Does the governor doubt the MHA?'
The Varanasi-born Sunanda "Sue" Tripathi-Manteris, filed the lawsuit against station owner Valley Broadcasting Co, Intermountain West Communications, other corporate entities and KSNV station managers and executives in US district court for Nevada. Manteris, who had been with the NBC Las Vegas affiliate for 22 years before her final broadcast on June 9, claims that KSNV let her go because she was too old and from an ethnic minority
The detention hearing of terror suspect David Coleman Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Ivestigation for plotting attacks in India at the behest of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, scheduled for December 4 at a court in Chicago has been indefinitely deferred.
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