The Indian teenager will train at Basketball Australia's Centre of Excellence from November 7-24.
Earlier this year, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira took the honors in a halftime show of girl power and Latina strength. Previous performers have included Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Prince and the Rolling Stones.
Malcolm Glazer, a reclusive self-made billionaire and patriarch of the family that owns the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Manchester United soccer club, died on Wednesday, the teams said. He was 85.
According to The New York Times, this move means that many highly vulnerable people will begin receiving the vaccine within days. It further called the authorisation by the FDA as a 'historic turning point' as the US death toll from the Wuhan-originated virus nears 300,000.
A sex scandal that forced Central Intelligence Agency chief David Patraeus to resign threatens to engulf another top United States general. Investigations have revealed that a Tampa socialite -- Jill Kelly -- sent 'flirtatious emails' to John Allen, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.
Republican Mitt Romney is all set to challenge incumbent Barack Obama after the party nominated the former Massachusetts governor as its candidate for the presidential elections in November this year.
Credit owes in large measure to Indian American Gopal TK Krishna for the Republican Party's amended platform acknowledging India's importance to the US as never before, reports Aziz Haniffa from Washington, DC
The hardest part of my job continues to be this federal government, this administration, this president, says South Carolina Governor, Nimrata Randhawa Haley in a prime time speech at GOP Convention. Aziz Haniffa reports.
Vishwas More, retired chief engineer of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University labs, who proudly proclaims he is 'a life-long Republican', and a veteran of political conventions, will attend his fifth Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, Florida, as an alternate delegate.
Dr Kiran C Patel and Dr Pallavi Patel, both physicians and longtime residents of Tampa, Florida, have donated $12 million to the University of South Florida in a new endowment aimed at creating the Patel College of Global Sustainability, expanding on nearly a decade of world-leading applied research to advance sustainability around the globe and improve the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.
Ishwar Singh, president of the Sikh Society of Central Florida, created history on Wednesday at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, becoming the first Sikh American in US history to deliver an invocation at a national party convention.
After an impressive speech by Indian American Ranjit Ricky Gill, yet another Indian-origin leader launched a scathing attack on President Barack Obama over a range of policy issues during the ongoing Republican convention in Tampa.
Infosys chief mentor Narayana Murthy has been felicitated with the Global Leadership and Free Enterprise awards by the University of South Florida in recognition of his entrepreneurial spirit.
A day after being nominated as Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney received praise from former President George W Bush, who expressed belief that the former Massachusetts Governor will prove to be a great president.
A major American news network mistakenly aired the map of Punjab while announcing that Indian-origin South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley would be a key speaker during the Republican National Convention in Tampa later in August. The CNN made this error in the midst of it covering the shooting incident at a gurudwara in Wisconsin. Haley's parents are from Punjab.
A 30-year-old Indian American pharmacist, suffering from postpartum depression, allegedly killed her one-year-old son she hated by drowning him in a bathtub.
Meet Joya Nandy Kazi, Hollywood's go-to-choreographer for Indian traditional dance and Bollywood style dance routines.
In life, you always need that someone who directs you to the right path, who shows you the way. In my case, I was very fortunate it was Aditya Chopra.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is backing Rick Perry for president, a major endorsement for the Texas governor as the campaign for the Republican nomination enters the crucial fall stretch of the primary calendar, CNN reported.
A delegation of senior Pakistani military officials visiting the US was deboarded from a plane, detained, "interrogated and rudely treated" by security officials after one of them made a comment to a flight attendant, prompting the team to head home in protest.
A Northern California-based aerospace company has unveiled the smallest drone yet that can carry weapons behind enemy lines.
Ponda is currently director of the firm's tax department, which is among the six finalist law firms nationwide for Chambers USA Awards for Excellence 2010 in Taxation Law.
The MLS and NBA were paying particularly close attention to Friday's events as many of the positive tests occurred in Florida where both leagues have announced plans to restart their seasons at Orlando's Walt Disney World.
The President announced 13 high-speed rail corridors covering 31 states across the country, a measure which will change the face US' transportation sector.
Around 1,20,000 Indian-Americans reside across Florida.
Hurricane Michael unleashed a furious onslaught on Florida's Panhandle on Wednesday, the record-breaking cyclone tearing apart buildings and submerging houses in floodwaters before taking aim at Georgia and the Carolinas. Michael's 155mph winds at landfall were only 5mph short of category 5 status, making it the strongest storm to strike the United States since Hurricane Andrew ravaged southern Florida in 1992. Florida Governor Rick Scott warned of "unimaginable devastation", saying it would be the worst storm in 100 years.
Dr Pallavi Patel's selection marks the first time an Indian-American woman has been extended such an honour in Florida, and perhaps anywhere in the United States.
Sukhbir Channa, a 24-year-old Sikh musician, has filed a $1 million class action complaint against Walt Disney World.The lawsuit, filed in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Hillsborough County, Florida, claims that Channa was denied employment despite being qualified for the job because of the 'look problem' a reference to his turban and beard.
The American Association of Physicians of Indian origin will host its Silver Jubilee Convention May 9 to May 13 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
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Cuba's Olympic team took to the field with only 10 men against Honduras after up to seven players defected.
The US men's national soccer team will play their first friendly against Cuba in 69 years when they meet in Havana's Estadio Pedro Marrero on October 7, US Soccer said on Thursday.
"She saw him jump back, and go forward, and jump back and go forward," Molly's mom Donya DeLuca was quoted as saying by Fox News.
Florida based Trina Chakravarty was crowned Miss India USA at a function organised in Tampa, Florida.
The new offer from Malcolm Glazer would consist of more cash and less debt than his previous proposal.
SEWA International, a leading Indian-American non-profit organisation, has so far raised more than $250,000 for its COVID-19 relief efforts. It is using the money to buy personal protective equipment's, in particular facial masks and surgical masks, to donate free to the local law enforcement officials and hospitals in some of the hot spot areas like New York, who have run out of these essential items.
Clinton called on Americans to reject the "dark and divisive" vision Trump laid out for America's future.
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