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IANS- Wesley Mathews, the Indian-American father who was sentenced to life in prison over the killing of his three-year-old adopted daughter Sherin Mathews in the US state of Texas, has requested a new trial. The man was sentenced on June 26 over his daughter’s death in October 2017 after pleading guilty to a lesser […]
Arul Louis- The Indian diaspora in Houston is getting ready to meet the Indian Prime Minister with a Texan “Howdy, Modi!” greeting on September 22. The Texas India Forum (TIF) that is organizing the event billed as a “community summit” said it expects tens of thousands of people at the event. The event is named […]
Arul Louis- Democratic Party leaders in the House of Representatives have thwarted an attempt by the more impetuous members to impeach President Donald Trump, but the reprieve was clouded by a vote to prosecute two members of his cabinet for criminal contempt. “We just received an overwhelming vote against impeachment, and that is the end […]
IANS- While Elon Musk-led SpaceX always stays in limelight, world’s richest person Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin is fast catching up because for him, “space exploration is critical to our survival”. In an interview with CBS News along with John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline late on Wednesday, Bezos who founded Blue Origin almost […]
indica News Bureau- In an attempt to attract more foreign investment, New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy will be leading a trade delegation with India this September. Murphy, who will be the first Governor in New Jersey History to lead an official business team to India, announced through a press note on July 15, that the […]
Sakshi Chand- It’s the end of surrogacy in India, say experts after the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019 was tabled in Parliament on Monday. The Bill was termed “illogical” by some, but many also said that it was high time the practice of commercial surrogacy was checked. Between 2010 and 2014, India had become the […]
IANS- Facebook is not going to launch its digital coin Libra unless regulators are fully satisfied and all necessary approvals are in place. Under Facebook subsidiary Calibra, the social networking giant has planned to introduce a digital wallet for Libra. The wallet will be available on Messenger, WhatsApp and as a standalone app and is […]
IANS- The U.S. Department of Justice has said it will raise its application threshold for asylum, potentially slowing down the flow of immigrants. The new rule, expected to go into effect Tuesday, would prevent immigrants from applying for U.S. asylum if they arrive through a third country, significantly affecting large number of Central American immigrants […]
IANS- The launch of Chandrayaan-2 launch was called off due to a technical snag. “It is not possible to make the launch within the launch window. The revised launch schedule will be announced later,” the mission director announced. Minutes before making this announcement, the officials put on hold the countdown. “The technical snag was noticed […]
indica news Bureau- The South Asian Network (SAN) has issued a statement declaring “a victory for our country and our democracy” after President Trump said he was backing away from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census forms and that he would instruct the Commerce Department to collect citizenship information from other sources. […]
