With family assets of more than $684 million, Dallas-based medical professional Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar may be the richest candidate in India’s Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) elections 2024. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate from Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur constituency on Monday declared his family assets in the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission while filing his nomination for the May 13 election.
Protestors gathered outside the residence of Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington on Tuesday following the arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad.
The mortal remains of Indian citizen Aishwarya Thatikonda, who was among the victims in the Allen, Texas shootout, will be sent to India soon and assistance will be provided to her family. Thatikonda was among the nine people killed when a gun-wielding man opened fire at shoppers outside a mall in the Dallas area in the US last Saturday.
President Joe Biden again urged Congress to pass legislation banning assault weapons and enacting universal background checks after the Texas shootout, according to a statement released by the White House.
With an aim to expand its footprint in the US, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) inaugurated its eighth overseas chapter in Arizona on March 31, 2023.
This is the 45th overseas chapter of ICAI globally and one of the three new chapters in the US that had been announced by the ICAI president, CA. Aniket Sunil Talati. The other two are scheduled to be opened in Seattle and Ohio.
Ramesh Bhutada, an Indian American businessman, has donated $1 million to the Hindu University of America (HUA) in Florida. The university is the only institution in the US that offers education based on Hindu philosophy.
Naveen Jindal, chairman of Jindal Steel and Power, was conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award by the University of Texas (Dallas). Jindal is the second person to receive the prestigious award after Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar.
More than 200 people held a candlelight vigil in McKinney, Texas, in the memory of a nine-year-old Indian American boy who was allegedly stabbed to death by his father last week.
San Francisco’s ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to allow the city’s police to use robots that could “potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach fortified structures containing violent, armed, or dangerous subjects”.
