'Two of my friends are gone. I miss their voices and their company. I can't hug them. I can't joke with them any more but I have the gift of the experience of what life is. A lot of people don't understand this.' Canadian actor Michael Rudder was shot three times at the Oberoi hotel.
A year ago, Kia Scherr lost her husband and 13-year-old daughter in the Mumbai terror attacks. Yet, reports Arthur J Pais from Virginia, USA, they remain a constant presence in her life, as she channels grief into service.
Inside the governors' reception hosted by Indian Ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna -- a first in more than 15 years.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black stormed into the final of Wimbledon's mixed doubles event with a straight-set victory over Stephen Huss and Virginia Ruano Pascual on Friday. The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents 6-4, 6-4 in a little over 70 minutes.
Take a look at these dazzling cars of the future.
A 15-year-old Indian-American teen has been selected by the White House for the prestigious Champions of Change award for empowering the community by imparting Internet coding through her non-profit organisation.
The United States has ordered the aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush to move into the Arabian Gulf to provide President Barack Obama with options for possible military action against militants in Iraq.
Scientists at the University of Rochester, the University of Alabama, and the University of Virginia have said that the observed patterns of temperature changes over the last 30 years are not in accord with what greenhouse models predict. These observations are in conflict with the conclusions of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and also with some recent research publications based on essentially the same data.
Sania Mirza and Chinese Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang overcame a late fightback from second seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain to storm into the semi-finals of the $4,500,000 Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Miami on Wednesday. The Indo-Taiwanese pair won 6-3, 7-6(4).
Fewer than half of Americans plan to go to sports events, concerts, movies and amusement parks when they reopen to the public until there is a proven coronavirus vaccine. That includes those who have attended such events in the past, an ominous sign for the sports and entertainment industries hoping to return to the spotlight after being shut down by the pandemic.
Maybe the Republicans too will find their saviour in a fresh-faced minority with a funny name and unlikely story: Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal, the Indian-American son of a Hindu named Raj, who became America's first Indian American governor (in Louisiana, of all places), converting to Christianity and pledging to restore Reaganism along the way. 2012, Obama vs Jindal. Wouldn't that be something, asks Matthew Schneeberger
Leander Paes and Clara Black romped into the semi-final of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon after an easy 6-3, 6-3 victory over Brazil's Andre San and Japan's Ai Sugiyama on Thursday. The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair needed just 65 minutes to overcome the 11th seeds in the quarter-finals.
When rejected for a role in the school play, she took to costume designing by chance.
Sania Mirza and her partner Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei have upset second seeded Spanish pair of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual to enter the women's doubles quarterfinal of the Madrid Open event.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have both won the most states in the biggest day of the race for the US presidential nomination.
Steve Jobs sold this out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600.
Benedict Princy Peter shares her memories of her meeting with the maestro.
The Sikh Human Development Foundation, which provides scholarships to needy students in India, raised more than $ 213,000 at a dinner called 'Umeedan di Shaam.'
Mr Brin has signed up with the space tourism company Space Adventures for priority seating on a mission that would orbit the earth.
A business model originally conceived by an Indian-American student to supply power to India's villages by burning rice husks has won $50,000 in prize money after topping the prestigious Social Innovation Competition at the University of Texas last month.
Readers Jhuma and Amrita Deb send us a photograph.
Prasun Desai is the project's senior engineer and Entry, Descent and Landing lead engineer, Langley Research Centre, Virginia, one of the four agencies working on the Phoenix project. The other three are NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Former U.S. track star Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medallist now banned from the sport, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison on heroin charges.
Indian Davis Cupper Somdev Dev Varman set a new record for NCAA singles championship wins with a 14th career tournament victory. Virginia's 24-year-old Chennai-born defending champion defeated Clancy Shields of Boise State 6-4, 7-5 to attain the milestone. The second round victory was his 40th singles win of the season.
Immediately following his election, DeBenedittis closed down the day-labour centre that had been sustained by public funds and was located in a residential neighbourhood. In this, he had the backing of most members of the Town Council.
Former champions Venus and Serena Williams pulled out of the women's doubles at Wimbledon.
In a bid to woo Indian-Americans, Donald Trump has borrowed from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's winning slogan of the 2014 general elections as the Republican presidential nominee is seen in a TV ad saying "Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkaar".
Go right ahead and reach for that slice of white bread, for a researcher from the University of Virginia insists that the theory that eating so-called "bad" carbohydrates will make you fat is all hogwash.
Former US sprinter Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medallist now banned from the sport, pleaded guilty on Thursday to distributing heroin. According to a guilty plea filed in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, Montgomery faces at least five years in prison and a fine of up to $2 million.
As the Phoenix Mars Lander safely landed on Mars on May 25, Dr Prasun Desai and his colleagues released the breath they had been holding in, in a long exhalation of relief. "After months of work and days of high anxiety, now I feel relaxed," Dr Desai, senior engineer and Entry, Descent and Landing lead engineer at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, said.
Five longtime Republicans -- K V Kumar, Puneet Ahluwalia, Suhail Khan, Ajay Kuntamukkala and Harry Walia -- have been named to the GOP's Asian Pacific American Advisory Council.
She's here. The driving winds and pelting rain of Hurricane Florence's western edge began to batter the United States East Coast, giving the region a taste of what's to come as the monster storm moves ashore. Even though the one-time Category 4 tempest has been downgraded to a Category 2, it's still packing lethal 100-mph winds and the potential for 13-foot storm surges and 40 inches of rain, officials warned.
Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual claimed the women's doubles crown at the French Open.
A student of criminal law, 20-year-old Madhu Valli is a hip hop artist from USA.
Writer Asra Nomani, a friend of Daniel Pearl's, tells Aseem Chhabra why she doesn't believe in A Mighty Heart.
An intense winter storm has caused electricity outages for tens of thousands of Americans. Some 65,000 homes and businesses along the US east coast are without power. The storm is the product of a rapid and rare drop in barometric pressure known as bombogenesis, or bomb cyclone. Heavy snow has pounded the east coast from Maine as far south as North Carolina, taking out power lines, icing over roads and closing hundreds of schools.
Minal had completed her undergraduate degree from Rizvi College of Architecture Mumbai in 1998.
As the one-time frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination Hillary Clinton fumbles through the primaries, there are clear indications that the showdown she hoped to have with dark horse Barack Obama at the Denver Convention in August may turn out to be a damp squib.
Minal's family was informed of her death a day later as shse had been rushed to Blacksburg the same day.
Dr Joseph Chemplavil's novel weight-loss initiative inspired Dieting for Dollars, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television broadcast January 13. Dr Chemplavil, a cardiologist based in Hampton, West Virginia, says patients who join his program must sign a contract: "You lose one pound of your original weight and I give you a dollar. But if you gain a pound you have to give me a dollar." He calls it "reward and punishment at the same time."
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