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 […]
indica News Bureau- Indian American has been sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $2,618,000 in restitution as a result of his mail fraud conviction, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in charge, John F. Bennett in California. The sentence was handed down […]
Ritu Jha – Rumors about Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s possible presidential run for 2020 were confirmed Friday when the first Hindu Congresswoman announced on national television she would be in the race. Gabbard’s run was no surprise to the Indian-American community though many now focus on whether her campaign could give people a better […]
indica News Bureau – Indian American civil rights lawyer Anurima Bhargava has been named the new Commissioner to the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan federal government entity established by the US Congress to monitor, analyze and report on threats to religious freedom abroad. Bhargava, who […]
Ritu Jha – Several Indian American Google employees have openly joined Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly. The original letter, put together by Amnesty International along with 14 other human rights organizations this August and addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, described concerns about reports that Google is developing a […]
Ritu Jha – Whether considering gun violence or a rise in hate-crimes, it’s the roots that matter, said R K Janmeja (Meji) Singh, the retiring founding president of The Hume Center who is also a clinical psychologist. Singh was speaking at the center’s 25 anniversary held earlier this month in San Ramon, California. The […]
