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Arul Louis- Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu to seek the presidential nomination of a major party, has lashed out against a smear campaign by her Democratic Party’s leaders and their supportive media. Reacting to attacks by former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, Gabbard on Friday called her “the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and […]
IANS- Considered as one of the biggest ever simultaneous chases in the US and India, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is hunting for an Indian fugitive, Bhadresh Kumar Patel, for the past four years. Patel, who hails from Viramgam in Ahmedabad, figures in the FBI’s top 10 list of most wanted fugitives and […]
indica News Bureau- Immigration Voice, a national nonprofit that advocates easier employment, travel and working conditions for legal high-skilled immigrants, has expressed “profound disappointment” at the decision of Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) to block the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act 2019 in the Senate. On July 10, the bill was passed by the […]
indica News Bureau- An Indian-American man from Roseville, California, has been accused of killing four members of his family before driving with the corpse of one to the police station in Mount Shasta, Monday, Oct 14, and turning himself in. Shankar Nagappa Hangud, 53, told the police that he had killed the man in […]
IANS- The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) stance with regards to playing day-night Test matches is set to change with Sourav Ganguly officially taking over as President on October 23. The former India skipper has made it clear that with the World Test Championship having the option of the teams organising […]
IANS- As Kashmiris celebrate restoration of their post-paid mobile connections after 70 days Monday, service providers are having the last laugh, charging subscribers even for the period when services were suspended in the valley. The recharge packs credited by subscribers to their phones have been ‘exhausted’ though nobody could use them in the clampdown […]
IANS- Indian-origin MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, his wife and one-time Ph.D student Esther Duflo, and Harvard professor Michael Kremer have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work which has “dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice,” it was announced on Monday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which […]
IANS- A team of Indian-origin doctors in the US has found that a drug widely prescribed for a bladder condition for decades globally, now appears to be toxic to the retina. After an initial report last year that Elmiron (pentosan polysulfate sodium) may be associated with retinal damage, three ophthalmologists conducted a review of patients […]
indica News Bureau- Los Angeles-based Indian-American broker Damanpreet Singh will have to serve an extra nine months in jail for failing to turn himself in to serve his sentence, US attorney McGregor W Scott announced Friday. Damanpreet Singh was indicted for bribing employees of the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to alter records. […]
indica News Bureau- A doctor of Indian origin is among those charged with healthcare fraud in continuing action by the justice department across seven federal districts in northeastern United States. The department announced coordinated action against the fraud that resulted in a loss of over $800 million for government programs and the distribution of […]
