The Indian-American community cheered as Vanita Gupta was confirmed as the Associate Attorney General of the United States, the first woman of color and first Indian American to hold the third-highest position in the Department of Justice.
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Triple mutant coronavirus is India’s latest Covid worry
A triple-mutant coronavirus is now present in India, health experts said on Wednesday, adding to the worries of a country reeling from the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Indianapolis shooter ‘specifically aimed at Sikh employees’
The Sikh Coalition, the nation’s largest civil organization for the Sikh-American community, has urged the Indianapolis police and the FBI to investigate if the April 15 massacre at a FedEx warehouse that left nine people dead including the shooter was a white supremacist hate crime.
US ‘very closely’ tracking course of COVID-19 outbreak in India
United States is “very closely” tracking the course of the COVID-19 outbreak in India, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price has said.
Effort is to save lives in COVID-19, minimize impact on economic activities, livelihood: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the effort of government is to save lives in the situtation created by COVID-19 and also that economic activities and livelihood suffer the minimum impact.
Indianapolis Sikhs still scared, want answers
The Sikh community in Indianapolis is still grappling to come to terms with the April 15 shooting in which a gunman killed eight people at a FedEx warehouse.
Indian American killed during vacation in Hawaii
An Indian-American man from Pittsburg was recently murdered in Hawaii, when on vacation, and one of his college friends is the alleged suspect.
India’s former PM Manmohan Singh concerned the way Union Health Minster handling Covid
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- With the rampant rise of positive cases across India, India’s former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had written a letter of concern to the center on managing its Covid crisis. While the intention may have been genuine and apprehensive given the situation of the country, the letter drew a sharp response from […]
Lockdowns return, vaccines for all as India reels from Covid
Lockdowns returned to several parts of India on Monday and the government announced that all above age 18 would be eligible for vaccines from May 1 as the coronavirus pandemic battered the country.
J&J Covid-19 vaccine could return
The Covid-19 vaccine from J&J, put on hold by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 13 after reports of blood clots in six recipients, might return.