indica News Bureau- The Indian-American father who was sentenced to life in prison in the the killing of his 3-year-old adopted daughter Sherin Mathews in Texas has been transferred to state prison to begin serving his term, according to published reports. Wesley Mathews, 39, was taken from the Dallas County Jail on Thursday to the […]
IANS- Alarmed by the number of road accident deaths in Jammu and Kashmir, a group of US-based Kashmiri doctors is all set to provide fully equipped critical care ambulances. “In the absence of emergency service in the ambulances, the US-based group of Kashmiri doctors has launched a program to provide fully-equipped ambulances with paramedics […]
indica News Bureau- The population of people of Indian origin jumped by 40 percent during a seven-year period of 2010 and 2017, a South Asian advocacy group has said in its latest demographic snapshot. In general, the population of American residents tracing their roots to South Asia grew by 40 percent, SAALT or South […]
IANS- Amit Mehta, an Indian-American judge, will fast-track a decision on President Donald Trumps bid to quash a subpoena for financial records from his accounting firm, saying he will decide the full case after a hearing on May 14. Mehta of the District Court for the District of Columbia, made his announcement on Thursday in […]
Ritu Jha- Nothing has changed for the thirteen-year-old Indian American girl, Dhriti, of Sunnyvale, California. She is still in a coma after going through two brain surgeries said a close family friend of the girl’s father, Rajesh Narayan, who too along with several others were injured when a man allegedly hit them with his Toyota […]
Pieter Friedrich – India is having its first national election in five years. Partisanship in India is no better than in the United States. Probably much worse. Political party choices polarize families, friends, and whole communities and every election season can be a very divisive time. No wonder then that the U.S.’s nearly 4.5 million […]
indica News Bureau- Los Angeles based Indian-American broker, Damanpreet Singh has been indicted for failure to self-surrender to serve his prison sentence for bribing DMV employees to alter records, of which he pleaded guilty. A federal grand jury returned a single-count indictment against Singh on Thursday, March 28. According to court documents, on September 14, […]
Surekha Vijh- Seema Nanda, the first Asian as well as the first Indian American to become the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s Chief Executive Officer, feels that her party will “take back our country for working families.” Nanda, a former senior Obama administration official, who left her post as executive vice president and chief operating […]
indica News Bureau- California based Indian American couple has pleaded guilty to human trafficking charges and forced labor of foreign nationals. On March 14, after an 11-day trial, the federal jury found Satish Kartan, 45, and his wife, Sharmistha Barai, 40, guilty of conspiracy to obtain forced labor and two counts of obtaining forced […]
Arul Louis (IANS)- The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of a controversial Indian American jurist, Neomi Rao, to an important judgeship that was vacated by an appointee to the Supreme Court. Her confirmation on Wednesday, March 14, came after days of opposition from both liberals and the hard right over her writings as an […]
