The criminal jury trail of Susan Su, founder of the Tri Valley University in California that harboured thousands of Indian students, entered a crucial phase on Wednesday with closing statements by both the plaintiff and defence lawyers.
15 per cent of startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indians.
Take a look at the annual US News and World Report's 2016 business school rankings.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan works to break the shackles of caste for Dalits.
They are of the view that calling the new institutes "IITs" would dilute the brand image of the existing premier institutes, which figure among the world's 100 best technology universities and are compared with the likes of MIT, California University and Berkeley. The seven IITs are located in Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati and Roorkee.
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.
He is the first MD Anderson scientist to receive the world's most preeminent award for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.
A portrait of Dalip Singh Saund, the first Indian-American Congressman, will be unveiled in the US Congress at an official ceremony next month.
The actor took to Twitter to warn the Congress vice president "to not bullshit people on dynasty" and added that one has to earn people's respect through hard work.
US President Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board, describing her as one of America's "foremost economists and policy makers".
Yellen is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
About 200 students mainly from Stanford University attended the 'Meet Anna Hazare' event hosted by Stanford India Association, at the Stanford Graduate Community Center on Saturday.
Two Indian-American scientists were among 100 researchers named by President Barack Obama last week as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Harmit Singh Malik and Sanjay Kumar, a researcher at California University, Berkeley, will receive the honors along with the rest of the scientists and engineers in the Fall, at a White House ceremony.
In Part-I of an exclusive interview to rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt, Dr Ramachandra Guha, in his own masterly ways, explains the making of Congress party, its historic journey and, deciphers the nuances of its core philosophy.
Male Anna's hummingbirds move faster than the fighter jets to impress potential mates, a new study has found.
The Forbes 5th annual '30 Under 30' list features 600 women and men.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
'His simple lifestyle, his optimism, his hard work and his genuine humility made him an authentic role model to millions of children, many of them growing up in challenging circumstances.'
Indian-American Ghazala Hashmi, a former community college professor, created history by becoming the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Virginia State Senate.
Rahul Gandhi succeeds his mother Sonia Gandhi, who remained in the post for 19 years.
The system's early warnings will come after a quake rupture has already begun but before the shaking is felt tens of miles from the epicentre.
These institutes, while expensive, are a viable alternative to studying abroad.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the state of ecom in a nation of shopkeepers.
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley, US achieved this feat by using semiconductors.
Harris is known for many firsts. She has been a county district attorney; the district attorney for San Francisco -- the first woman and first African-American and Indian-origin to be elected to the position.
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.
Why are the poor turning Right instead of turning toward far-Left parties, ponders Pranab Bardhan.
By naming the 55-year-old lawyer and politician from California as his running mate, Biden made history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party's presidential ticket. If elected she would be the first ever women to be the vice president of the US and the first ever Indian-American and African vice president of the country.
'Whoever owns the best chip industry will be the Saudi Arabia of the era of data,' predicts Rajeev Srinivasan.
Amidst an outpour of grief, Tarishi Jain, the 19-year-old Indian girl who was killed along with 19 others in the Dhaka terror attack, was cremated in Gurgaon on Monday.
James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize 2013 on Monday for solving the mystery of how the cell organises its transport system. The winners will share equally the prize sum of eight million Swedish kronor (USD 1.25 million), reduced because of the economic crisis last year from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001.
Saima Hasan, founder and chief executive officer of Roshni Academy that works to empower girls from government schools in New Delhi and surrounding areas to achieve their full potential in college, jobs and life in general, tells P Rajendran what drew her to help poor girls.
Vikram J Singh, the highest-ranking Indian American at the Pentagon is quitting his administration job to head up the national security division at the Center for American Progess -- a Washington, DC progressive think tank with close links to President Obama -- which has at its helm another Indian American, Neera Tanden.
'In the last one year, it looks like there were bad things that didn't take place, and there were good things that didn't take place,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.
The NAE this year has elected 69 new members and 11 foreign associates, thus bringing the total US membership to 2,250 and the number of foreign associates to 211.
'A plausible American tactic,' Rajeev Srinivasan suspects, 'would be to try and prevent the BJP and Modi from coming to power by splitting the anti-Congress vote using the AAP, and in case that fails, to follow up with a Plan B to make India ungovernable, to create mass conflict through their agents.'
Shortage of top engineering talent in Silicon Valley is inflating paychecks.
