Attorneys say the Indians fled religious persecution under the BJP and endured harsh conditions once in the US, but could be out of prison as early as next week Ritu Jha “Here we have come to save our lives but I think we will die here in jail,” were the words of an […]
USCIS officials to get discretionary powers to reject incomplete applications, without requests for information Ritu Jha Frivolous filings are why the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has to take a strong decision about the recent policy memorandum (PM) that gives USCIS adjudicators discretionary power to deny an application, petition, or request without […]
indica Washington Bureau The influential Impact Fund on Tuesday announced to endorse Indian-origin entrepreneur Suneel Gupta in the Democratic party primary for the 11th Congressional District from Michigan. Gupta, 38, is the younger brother of CNN’s star medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta and son of Damyanti Gupta, who was the first female engineer with a degree […]
Frank Islam In this 21st century, democracy is descending and autocracy is ascending in countries around the world. That is the conclusion and argument that Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa present in their article titled “The End of the Democratic Century” published in the May/June edition of Foreign Affairs. For much of […]
Speakers discussed the many hurdles in ensuring equality and called on men to do their bit Ritu Jha “Empowerment of Women” was the theme of the third annual 2018 Ideal Village conference recently held at Stanford University. The topics addressed included gender inequality, and the dearth of healthcare, education, safety, a decent livelihood […]
Data collected for two years gauge the amount and quality of water as the first step to a long-term solution Ritu Jha Did you know just in the next two years, 21 cities, including New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, will run out of groundwater, affecting 100 million people, and by 2030, 40 […]
With fewer booths, more youth and women rejuvenate 25-year-old event Ritu Jha Thousands of Indian techies, young students aspiring to be an entrepreneur attended The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) Inflect 2018, (an annual conference formerly known as TiEcon). This year’s focus of the two days conference on May 4 and 5, was on artificial […]
The Trump administration considers a plan to end their Temporary Protected Status Ritu Jha It was an earthquake that drove them out. But the Trump administration could drive them back. Thousands of Nepali immigrants in the US who came over after the devastating earthquake of April 25, 2015, may have to return […]
Blockchain, big data, cybersecurity, AI and IoT spur debate at Global Data Science Conference Ritu Jha Attendees at the Global Data Science Conference in Santa Clara were a little bemused by the shock and consternation that Facebook had actively worked with companies that infringed on people’s privacy. “I was surprised that people were […]
Anti-immigrant group’s message in BART system worries Indians, the largest beneficiaries of the program Ritu Jha A controversial poster targeting H1-B visa workers have been placed across the Bay Area Rapid Transit train system in California. The 200 signs have been placed at San Francisco’s Civic Center station and Oakland’s 19th Street station, […]
