iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday appointed an Indian-American as the policy director of his wife Jill Biden, who will be the first lady. Mala Adiga, the newly appointed policy director for the upcoming first-lady, has served as a senior advisor to Jill and a senior policy advisor on the Biden-Kamala Harris […]
Bobbie Singh-Allen has created history by becoming the first Indian-American Sikh woman elected as mayor of Elk Grove, California.
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- Cybersecurity is one of the biggest threats the world is facing currently. As the world is getting more accustomed to the digital way of life, we are getting more vulnerable to cyberattacks and thefts of vital and classified information. In fact, in a recently held Gartner’s Security & Risk Management Summit, in […]
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- Urban planner Nithya Raman, born in India, has won a fiercely-contested race for Los Angeles City Council by defeating David Ryu, an incumbent council member in 17 years. In the election, Raman won 52.5 percent of the vote, while garnered 47.21 percent votes. According to media report, Raman got the strongest support […]
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- In a recent announcement from the Pentagon, it has come to know that it has appointed an Indian-American as the Chief of Staff to the Acting US Defense Secretary Chris Miller. Kashyap Pramod Patel, popularly known as Kash Patel, currently on the National Security Council staff, has been named by Acting Secretary Miller as his Chief […]
RITU JHA Sridhar Verose has become the first Indian American to be elected councilmember in the city of San Ramon, California. Verose, who won from District 3 of San Ramon, told indica News that the real work would begin now. Verose’s community service and engagement started in 2016, when he became commissioner of San Ramon […]
Ritu Jha- “On this occasion of Diwali, as part of Silicon Valley Indian community, I would urge us to light two extra candles on Nov 14th, one for Kamala Harris and one in memory of her mother Shyamala Gopalan,” said Vinita Gupta, a Silicon Valley-based tech entrepreneur on U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris becoming the first […]
RITU JHA- Indian American Raj Salwan, an incumbent who won the Fremont City Council District 5 seat in California on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the general election says his dream is to make Fremont a world-class cosmopolitan city where people of every background are welcome and made to feel like family. Salwan, 46, a veterinarian […]
Jhansi Kalapala, Candidate for Fremont Unified School District (District 4 seat), on why she is venturing into public service. The views expressed are her own: My name is Jhansi Kalapala, a wife, and a wonderful mother. I am a resident of the Fremont community since 2003, so it has been a long relationship with this […]
IANS- US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett has sailed through the Senate winning a life-time appointment and firming up the conservative hold on the bench. She received 52 votes of the Republican Party senators on Monday, just eight days before the presidential election, with one defecting to the Democratic side […]
