The report, compiled by COV-IND-19 Study Group, an interdisciplinary team of researchers, said while India seems to have done well in controlling the number of confirmed cases compared to other countries like the United States and Italy in the early phase of the pandemic, the country is critically missing a key component in this assessment -- the number of truly affected cases.
An Indian-American physical therapist assistant has been sentenced to over four years in prison and ordered to pay USD 1.9 million in restitution for his role in a $14.9 million health insurance fraud scheme.
Responding to questions from reporters on Trump not conceding the race, Biden hoped that at the end it's all going to come to fruition on January 20th.
Arthur Ashkin in the US, Grard Mourou in France, and Donna Strickland in Canada will share the prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.
'There are voters that may only come out to vote for him because he's speaking to their issues and they may not be Democrat or Republican'
Would you choose to kill someone to save the lives of several others? Well, nine out of 10 people say "yes", a new study has found.
Dr Venkatram Ramaswamy, Hallman Fellow of Electronic Business and Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, is in India to speak at Guruspeak, an annual event organized by IIM-Calcutta.
Obama, the first Black American president, said Harris "is more than prepared for the job," adding that it is, "a good day for our country".
It is official. Scientists have discovered that women drivers are more dangerous behind the wheel.
Jack Kevorkian, a controversial American Pathologist known as 'Dr Death' for his efforts to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States, has died in a Detroit area hospital following a short illness at the age of 83.Kevorkian died on Friday after being hospitalised at William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan since May with pneumonia and kidney problems.Kevorkian became an international talking point in the 1990s.
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.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
United States Congressman Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has said that if there's evidence of official Pakistani complicity in the harbouring of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, there's no way this can be kept a secret from the American public
It is rare that two-term president has an approval rating of 56 per cent towards the end of his presidency. It is also the highest for Obama since he was re-elected in 2012.
'She was the unanimous choice of the search-cum-selection committee.'
The world's largest coffee chain is opening the largest Starbucks in the world in the Windy City of Chicago on November 15. Starbucks Reserve Roastery Chicago, the company's sixth and final Reserve Roastery, housed inside Crate & Barrel's former flagship location on Michigan Avenue is 35,000 square feet large and five floors high. And we have got to say that it's a paradise for coffee lovers!
President and CEO of computer networking firm Arista Networks Jayshree Ullal, cofounder of IT consulting and outsourcing firm Syntel Neerja Sethi, and CTO and cofounder of streaming data technology company Confluent Neha Narkhede are in the Forbes list of 'America's Richest Self-Made Women 2019'.
Kamala Harris is now the first woman, the first Black American and the first Asian American to hold the country's second highest office, and is now in a strong position to run for the top job four years from now.
Researchers at the Michigan State University in the US said once in use, the implications of their programme would be huge.
In his first interview with a South Asian newspaper after being sworn in, Hansen Hashim Clarke, the newly-minted member of the United States House of Representatives representing Michigan's 13th District, declared that he unabashedly wears his Indian roots on his sleeve.
A deadly snowstorm has resulted in cancelled flights, and stranded motorists, and has prompted a state of emergency in western New York, and left at least five people dead in the north-eastern United States.
'We don't know how complicated things will get with the onset of the monsoon.'
A school in Michigan's Canton township has barred students from bringing a kirpan, a dagger carried by the Sikh community, to the premises after a fourth grader was found carrying the religious symbol and parents of other students objected to it.
The Indian National Overseas Congress launched its Chicago-Illinois chapter at a banquet at the India House in Schaumburg, Illinois, April 30.
UBS Wealth Management Americas, Bank of America's Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley all employ several retired Olympic athletes.
Students earning stipend in foreign currency need to pay tax, unless they get it as allowance.
A total of 15 Indian-American students, including six girls, have made it to the national Spelling Bee semifinals, making it almost one-third of the total 42 candidates who have qualified.
K Alan Kronstadt, a specialist in South Asian affairs for the US Congressional Research Service, on how more US oversight on funding to fight terror in Pakistan could help both countries and even India.
Cuomo said he will issue an executive order requiring all people in New York to wear a mask in public and the order will go into effect on April 17.
Republican Donald Trump has been elected as 45th President of the United States after winning 276 electoral votes.
India on Tuesday temporarily licensed the export of paracetamol and anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine in appropriate quantities to some countries, which have been particularly badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
A United States firm has moved the Indian Supreme Court for permission to use the confessional statement of its scam-tainted joint venture partner Satyam's founder Ramalinga Raju in its shareholding dispute.
A new study has revealed that non-monogamous relationships are just as successful as monogamous.
Dr Alan G Merten, president of George Mason University, who had a 30-year-old friendship with C K Prahalad pays tribute to the management guru.
The scandal stemming from longtime USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse of young female athletes could take a financial toll on the sports federation for years, sponsorship executives said.
The India-born global management guru not only helped companies but also MBA students and faculty to think laterally.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders held a fierce and substantive debate on Sunday night, disagreeing over trade, guns, the auto industry and Wall Street.
Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad spoke in a measured baritone and asked for feedback on his latest book -- The New Age of Innovation -- which was launched in India in April 2008, almost a month before its scheduled distribution in the United States. The University of Michigan professor listened intently, almost like a student eager to know whether he had gone wrong anywhere.
A Texas man pleaded guilty on Thursday to hiring men to kill an Indian couple in Michigan in 2008.
In addition to declaring a national emergency, US President Trump has approved major disaster declarations for New York, California, Washington, Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas and Florida.
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