New York, April 17 Indian-origin academic Neeli Bendapudi has been appointed as one of five co-chairs of an Association of American Universities (AAU) task force focused on the expansion of research and academic partnerships among higher education institutions in the US and India. Seen as a "natural fit" for the ...

New York, April 15 Indian-origin Sikh community leader and Kern County businesswoman, Raji Brar has been appointed to the California State University Board (CSUB) of Trustees, a powerful leadership post at the US's largest system of public higher education. Brar, a California State University (CSU), Bakersfield double alumna, will be ...

New York, April 14 The 64-year-old priest of a Sikh temple in Pennsylvania has been arrested for allegedly sexually-assaulting a girl when she was five-year-old by "inappropriately touching" her for at least seven years, a media report said. Balwinder Singh of Drexel Hill in Delaware County was recently charged with ...

Singapore, April 14 A 41year-old Indian-origin man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia died while serving life sentence for killing his mother in 2012, in Singapore's Changi Prison, media reports said. Sujay Solomon Sutherson, who had stabbed and slit his 56-year-old mother's throat with knives, was convicted of culpable homicide ...

Manila, April 11 The Philippines and US on Tuesday kicked off the most extensive joint military activities in decades in the the Southeast Asian nation amid criticisms that it escalates tension in the region rather than peace and stability. According to the Philippine military, the 18-day yearly exercise dubbed 'Balikatan' ...

Singapore, April 11 A supermarket chain in Singapore has apologised after an Indian Muslim couple was turned away from one of its booths offering free refreshments to those breaking fast during Ramzan. Farah Nadya and her husband Jahabar Shalih had gone to the FairPrice outlet at Our Tampines Hub on ...

New York, April 11 Maryland Governor Wes Moore has announced that Indian-American delegate Kumar Barve will be appointed to the US state's Public Service Commission after the 2023 legislative session. Barve is the first Indian-American elected to a state legislature in the US. He has been a member of the ...

United Nations, April 11 New Delhi has called for international condemnation of Pakistan sending weapons across the international border to terrorists operating in India. "We are facing a serious challenge of cross-border supply of illicit weapons using drones, which cannot be possible without active support from the authorities in control ...

Washington, April 11 California state has dropped its allegations of caste-based bias by two Indian-descent employees of IT giant Cisco but will continue the larger case against the company. California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing had filed this case in 2020 based on a complaint from an unidentified employee ...

New York, April 10 Noted Indian-American mathematician and statistician Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics for his work more than 75 years back, which continues to exert a profound influence on science. Rao, 102, will receive the prize, which comes with a $80,000 award, ...