indica News Bureau- Indian American US Senator and US presidential candidate in the 2020 election, Kamala Harris, has been endorsed by the Indian American IMPACT Fund. The IMPACT Fund is a national organization which upholds the United States’ ideals and promises of representative democracy with a focus on Indian Americans to run, win, and […]
K.S. JAYARAMAN(IANS)- A world-renowned US geophysicist is highly disappointed that India denied him a visa to attend a three-day international conference at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, that began on Thursday. Roger Bilham, a professor of geology at the University of Colorado, had been invited by the organizers to deliver […]
IANS- A federal judge in Florida has sentenced an Indian citizen to eight years and six months in prison for his involvement in an India-based call center scam, according to the US Justice Department. At his sentencing on Thursday, Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington also ordered Hemalkumar Shah, 27, to pay $80,000. He had been convicted […]
Arul Louis(IANS)- Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday that the inquiry into alleged cooperation between Russia and US President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election found there was no collusion between them, although it established Moscow’s interference. Speaking to reporters in Washington before the release of a redacted version of the inquiry report, […]
Arul Louis- The two aspirants for the party nominations for the 2020 presidential elections from the two extreme ends of the electoral spectrum, US President Donald Trump and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders, are leading the race in poll fund-raising. According to their campaign finance filings for the first quarter, Trump’s war chest is about $30 […]
IANS- US Senator Bernie Sanders has released a decade of tax returns, providing new insight into how the Democratic socialist from Vermont became a millionaire between his two presidential runs. According to the returns provided by his campaign on Monday, Sanders and wife Jane’s bottom line jumped from $240,622 in 2015, the year he launched […]
Arul Louis(IANS)- The UN owes India $30 million for its contributions to the peacekeeping operations, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Peacekeeping operations “face frequent cash constraints that force the organisation to postpone the settlement of its obligations to troop- and police-contributing countries”, he said in a report released on Monday to the General Assembly on […]
indica News Bureau- The Indian Embassy in Washington has issued an advisory urging Indian students to exercise due diligence while seeking admission to United States universities. The advisory was released early this week after the Indian government saw hundreds of international students on F-1 Visa (The visa which allows students to enter the United States […]
IANS- The world’s largest aircraft, developed by aerospace venture Stratolaunch, completed its first flight test on Saturday. With a dual fuselage design and wingspan greater than the length of an American football field, the airplane took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 6:58 am (Pacific Time), said Stratolaunch in a statement, […]
IANS- Microsoft has alerted some of its webmail users of possible hacker attacks that could access their email accounts illegally, media reports said. In an email notification to some affected users on Saturday, Microsoft said it became aware of an issue involving unauthorised access to some customers’ web-based email accounts by cybercriminals. “We have identified […]
