Groups of voters from Illinois and Massachusetts filed motions on Thursday to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot. The two states have been added to the list of states where Trump faces a challenge to his candidature under the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban.
A recent tragedy that claimed the lives of an Indian-origin couple and their teenage daughter in Massachusetts has been ruled as a murder-suicide after an autopsy. Rakesh Kamal (57), his wife Teena Kamal (54) and their 18-year-old daughter Arianna were found dead in their $5 million mansion in Dover on December 28, 2023.
Indian and other South Asian families in several towns of Massachusetts are being increasingly targeted by thieves for their expensive jewelry, a media report said.
Ritu Jha- Indian-origin researcher working on neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, glaucoma, and also age-related macular degeneration says there are a lot of diseases nowadays that people are detecting in the eye before the disease can manifest physically, in the brain. The young researcher, Suman Chaudhary[Above photo], is taking a very close look at the human […]
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.
Indian-origin engineer Aishwarya Thatikonda was among the nine people killed when a gun-wielding man opened fire at shoppers outside a mall in Dallas area in the US on Saturday.
Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington state, has signed legislation to prohibit dozens of semiautomatic rifles. The bill bans the sale, transfer, distribution, manufacture and importation of 62 gun models it defines as “assault weapons”, including AR-15s, AK-47s and similar high-powered rifles that have been used to carry out the mass shootings across the US.
An Indian-origin professor at Babson College has filed a lawsuit against the business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for allegedly subjecting her to gender and racial discrimination. Lakshmi Balachandra, an associate professor of entrepreneurship, said despite her research record, expressed interest, and service to the college, she was denied numerous leadership positions and opportunities for more time to conduct research and write, The Boston Globe reported.
Indian American Tejal Mehta has taken oath as the first justice of Ayer District Court in the US state of Massachusetts. Mehta, who served as an the associate justice with the same court, was unanimously selected and sworn in by Judge Stacey Fortes, chief justice of the District Court, on March 2, the Lowell Sun reported.
Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San José) introduced AB 919, the Stable Homes Act, on February 14 to give tenants, local public agencies, and mission-driven nonprofits a first opportunity to purchase or match an offer on rental housing properties when owners choose to put them up for sale. AB 919 is sponsored by California Reinvestment Coalition, Housing California, and Public Advocates.
Four Indian Americans are among 106 new members elected to the Washington-based National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for making outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, and education.
Indian American Harmeet Dhillon, who is mounting an insurgent campaign against the party’s leadership, is picking up support in her bid to head the party at a pivotal moment when former President Donald Trump’s future hangs in the balance.
A 34-year-old Indian origin has been sentenced to 87 months in prison for operating a pharmacy that sold unapproved prescription drugs and controlled substances, including opioids, and shipped them from Asia into the US.
Chandigarh-born lawyer Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary has become the first immigrant of Indian origin to take oath as Commissioner to the Immigrant Rights Commission for the city and county of San Francisco.
The world’s largest indoor, multi-level karting track and premier entertainment venue – Supercharged Entertainment – is all set to open its second US location in Edison, NJ on Friday, December 16, 2022.
US President Joe Biden has renewed his call to ban assault weapons in view of the US mass shootings. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons,” Biden told reporters during a visit to firefighters in Nantucket, Massachusetts on Thursday.
indics News Bureau- A federal court has upheld the use of race-based affirmative action in Harvard’s admissions policy, saying that trying to ensure diversity at the Ivy League university is not discriminatory to Asian American applicants. The case, which drew much media and public attention, was brought by a long-standing critic of affirmative action […]
