Major Republican donors gathered in Nashville, TN to pick and fund a candidate worthy of competing with incumbent President Joe Biden who is also seeking a second term in office. Although former President Donald Trump got top billing, he was nowhere near the dream of achieving the Republican nomination.
Three legislators, including an Indian-American, in the Michigan State House have introduced a set of bills to establish festivals like Diwali and Eid as official state-recognised holidays.
As robot-assisted, minimally invasive surgeries gain ground the world over, robotic surgery has the potential to improve healthcare in India by increasing access to high-quality medical care and reducing costs, Dr Mahendra Bhandari, CEO of US-based Vattikuti Foundation and an Indian-origin pioneer in the field, said on Saturday.
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.
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.
An Indian American owner and operator of three nursing homes in Michigan had to compensate $69,000 to managers that were not paid their overtime, according to a federal investigation. Amee Patel owned and ran the operations at Chesaning Nursing Center and Detroit-based Beaconshire Nursing Center and Westwood Nursing Center.
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 month after leaving Democratic party, calling it an ‘elitist cabal of warmongers’, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has joined Fox News as a paid contributor.
Even as the Republicans won 210 seats and appear set to retake the House of Representatives against the Democrats reduced count, Donald Trump’s close ally and right-wing billionaire Rupert Murdoch, who controls several media outlets, including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, is asking the GOP to move on from him following the disappointing performance of the ex-President’s handpicked candidates.
US voters have spoken in the midterm polls, but the control of US Congress hung in balance on Wednesday as several key races remained undecided. The Democrats have managed to prevent a rout.
The number of Indian Americans in the US House of Representatives may well go up to five after the results are out for the mid-term polls scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 8. Pollsters and political pundits have forecast that four incumbents of the Democratic Party – Ami Bera, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ro Khanna, and Pramila Jayapal – are likely to be re-elected.
After Indian-American community leader Chandru Acharya, Kiran Kaur Gill, an Indian-origin Sikh, has been named to the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Faith-Based Security Advisory Council.
