Ritu Jha- US-based Indian-American investors who once welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi with open arms in Silicon Valley but have been facing a lukewarm relationship with him lately hope he will follow through on the promises he has failed to keep in the first term. Investors’ also hope he focuses on the bread-and-butter issues, […]
Frank Islam(IANS) – In this national election year, the concept of a universal basic income has become a political football. The opposition Congress Party is promising to implement a “nationwide minimum income for the poor” and Prime Minister Narendra Modis administration is proposing a “basic income for poor farmers.” What is not needed on […]
Ritu Jha – Members of the Indian American community expressed excitement and pride after learning of Kamala Harris, the Democratic senator from California, entering the 2020 presidential race. Harris, 54, is a daughter of immigrants, who came to the United States for higher education. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast cancer researcher, came […]
Frank Islam India has the third-largest higher educational system in the world. In 2016, there were 799 universities and 39,071 colleges spread across the country. These numbers are staggering. The growth of higher education in India over a little more than half a century has been even more staggering. Between 1950 and 2014, the […]
Directors Boney Kapoor and Zoya Akhtar, and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jhanvi Kapoor honored at the event focusing on independent cinema indica News Bureau “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It is the time for women’s empowerment.” That was Frank Islam, an Indian-American IT entrepreneur, philanthropist and […]
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 […]
