New York, June 24, 2020: Owing to the increase in communal violence and hate speech in India, over a thousand Indian American civil rights organizations, academicians and human rights activists have written to US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo requesting him to designate India as a Country of Particular ConcernContinue Reading
London, June 24, 2020: The UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Chitra Srinivasan is among the five Indian-origin engineers to be named among the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering for 2020. Srinivasan, a control and software engineer at UKAEA’s fusion research lab at Culham Science Centre near Abingdon in south-east England,Continue Reading
Baltimore, June 16, 2020: Steve Hanke, a top professor of the Johns Hopkins University and a renowned economist, has come out in the open and criticized the Covid-19 numbers put out by the Indian government. The Indian government has been releasing numbers on a day to day basis. The HealthContinue Reading
Washington, June 14, 2020: Second Lieutenant Anmol Narang will create history by becoming the first observant Sikh to graduate from the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point on June 13. US President Donald Trump will deliver remarks at the 2020 US Military Academy at West Point graduation ceremony.Continue Reading
Sitamarhi, June 12, 2020: Tension prevails on the Indo-Nepal Border along Bihar’s Sitamarhi district on June 12 after one Indian was killed and two were wounded after the Nepalese border guarding force opened fire on a crowd, The Nepalese Armed Police Force has also detained a person identified as 45-year-oldContinue Reading
Owensboro, June 8, 2020: About 15 years ago, with the Catholic diocese of Owensboro facing a shortage of locally produced priests, the late Bishop John McRaith began reaching out internationally to fill the void. In the years since, such loan programs have continued to be utilized and, in fact, haveContinue Reading
Dubai, June 7, 2020: A 61-year-old Indian doctor, who was at the forefront in treating and attending to COVID-19 patients at a hospital in the UAE, has died of coronavirus, his hospital said on June 7. Dr Sudhir Rambhau Washimkar, who hailed from Nagpur, Maharashtra, died at Al Ain HospitalContinue Reading
London, May 29, 2020: Rajesh Gupta, an Indian-origin doctor working in the United Kingdom, was found dead in a hotel on May 25 where he was staying to protect his family from coronavirus. Gupta had gained medical qualifications from Jammu University in 1997, moved to the UK in 2006 andContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 29, 2020: Indian Army Major Suman Gawani has been selected for the prestigious United Nations Military Gender Advocate Award (2019). The Army Major and woman peacekeeper had served with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMSS). Suman Gawani has been awarded for her outstanding contribution toContinue Reading
By Lalit K Jha Atlanta, May 27, 2020: Prompted by the lack of adequate ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic, and Indian-American couple has developed the emergency ventilator from concept to prototype in just about three weeks-time. Devesh Ranjan, the husband, is a professor and associate chair in the prestigious GeorgiaContinue Reading
