Ritu Jha Several South Asians for the first time made to the city council seat in the November 6 election. Raj Chahal won from district 2 in Santa Clara, Rashi Kesarwani won the city of Berkeley Council’s District 1, Nitesh Patel won from the city of La Palma, Harry Sidhu became mayor of […]
Shalini Nataraj The recent mid-term elections have been historic in numerous ways – even the losses have been semi-wins for supporters of progressive candidates as the results have been really close, bringing about recounts in several cases. What do we take away from the final results? Democrats now control the House, but […]
Five reasons why US economy is as good as it gets, and turning over Partha Chakraborty Annie Lennox and David Stewart had it like most of us in a family, puissant and pusillanimous at the same time in their coexistence. Their 1983 Album rocked the waves with Sweet Dreams. Sweet dreams are made of this […]
indica News Bureau With US presidential election due in 2020, two formidable candidates with Indian links are likely to throw their hat in the ring – California Senator Kamala D Harris and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Harris and Gabbard are among two dozen aspirants for the Democratic ticket to run against President Donald Trump, […]
Justice Markandey Katju CNN has filed a suit against President Donald Trump and his aides for cancelling the press pass to the White House of senior CNN reporter Jim Acosta, and there is a big uproar in America, and not just most Americans are supporting CNN but other media organisations, including the normally pro-Trump […]
But other experts are convinced that even if it not illegal there is evidence of preferential treatment for Indian workers Ritu Jha Tata Consultancy Services denied any wrongdoing in the allegations that it discriminated against non-Indian employees. In 2015, three employees – Steven Heldt, Brian Buchanan, and Christopher Slaight – alleged that recruiters […]
Justice Markandey Katju In his article ‘ Why Sabarimala issue leaves instinctive liberals like me torn ‘ Shashi Tharoor has revealed much about himself and his claim to be a ‘liberal’ and an ‘intellectual’. He writes that on reading the Sabarimala verdict he at first approved of it. This is of course expected […]
A tech entrepreneur who set up a restaurant brings a unique set of Indian flavors to the Bay Area Ritu Jha Anirban Datta of Curry on Wheels is not a chef by profession. But that may be difficult to explain to the Bengalis who were there for his bijoya buffet (served on the […]
indica Washington Bureau In what can be called a sign of good economic health, India jumped 23 places to move to 77th position among 190 nations in this year’s global ease of doing business rankings. According to the World Bank’s annual ‘Doing Business 2019: Training for Reform’ report, released on October 31, India carried […]
Justice Markandey Katju Most ‘intellectuals’ in India (to whose ranks most academicians, writers, media persons, etc claim to belong) profess to be Nehruites. In other words they claim to stand for liberalism, secularism, democratic principles (for example, freedom of speech and of the press) etc, in contrast to Modiites, who are allegedly illiberal, communal, […]
