Pramila Jayapal fights to keep H4 work authorization

Indefinite family detention draws more anger

The solution to the reprehensible practice of separating children from parents was barely less humane, activists and lawmakers say   indica Washington bureau   Indian American lawmakers and human rights activists on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump for a new executive order that calls for indefinite detention of families who illegally enter the country, even […]

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DC meet to fuel Desi community politicians

The effort is to bring different groups together and coordinate their activities in the run-up to the elections   A Washington correspondent   As 80 Indian Americans run for elected offices across the country, politicians – former, current and emerging – are converging in Washington, DC, later this week. Organizers say this is part of […]

Biden’s Legacy of Delusion Defines Today’s Democratic Party

Over five decades in the limelight of national politics, of which eight years spent as the Vice President and the last four years as the President of the United States, leaving the country in the best economic shape among big industrial nations post Pandemic, a forceful pushback against Russia leveraging a coalition of the willing, culminating with a Ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war that brings hostages back in due course, leaving the nexus of evil surrounding Iran at its weakest it has ever been in recent decades… These could be opening chapters in an epic biography of President Joseph Robinette Biden who was elected to heal the nation after a rather raucous tenure of a tempestuous tyrant.

International Women’s Day: How Indian-origin women are changing global politics

Women serve as heads of state and government in only 31 countries with less than one in four serving as cabinet ministers, and just 26.5 per cent of them as MPs in a 21st-century world that speaks of gender equality. Despite the not-so-impressive numbers, based on a 2023 UN study, women, some of them Indian-origin, across the world have been emerging as a formidable force in political forums that has long been dominated by men.

Indica Weekly Window for South Asian Diaspora May 8, 2023

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Indica Weekly Window for South Asian Diaspora October 31, 2022

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Indica Weekly Window for South Asian Diaspora October 24, 2022 | Diwali Special Edition!

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Indian American votes will make a huge difference in swing states

Ajay Bhutoria- US election is decided by the voters of “battleground” states or “swing states” or “toss-up” states, and define the Electoral College of 270. The eight states which will decide the 2020 Presidential election outcome include four northern states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota) and three southern states (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina) as well as […]