indica News Bureau- An Indian student was sentenced to a year in prison for damaging computer equipment owned by The College of Saint Rose, announced the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Northern District of New York. Vishwanath Akuthota, a 27-year-old of Albany, New York who was a student at The College of Saint Rose […]
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Hindu priest attacked while walking on New York street
Ritu Jha- A New York-based Hindu priest was brutally attacked by a 52-year-old armed man after they had a verbal argument, according to the New York City Police Department, and New York news media have reported that the attacker shouted at the holy man dressed in religious grab, “This is my neighborhood.” The attack was […]
NY bar turns away turban-wearing Sikh youth
IANS- A Sikh youth has claimed that a bar in New York’s Long Island didn’t let him enter because he was wearing a turban. Gurvinder Grewal, a recent graduate from the Stony Brook University, went out to meet his friends late night on May 11 at the Harbor Grill in Port Jefferson. But the 23-year-old […]
Air India goofs, sends funds to Nigeria instead of US firm
Nirbhay Kumar(IANS)- Public sector Air India’s New York office transferred $300,000 to a bank account in Nigeria instead of remitting the sum to a US-based firm Pratt & Whitney for supplying spare parts. The incident is learned to have taken place in June, 2017 but the airline has failed to get the amount retrieved from […]
UN chief Guterres calls for ‘maximum restraint’ by India, Pakistan
Arul Louis- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following the situation in the subcontinent where the Indian Air Force struck a terrorist base inside Pakistan territory and is calling for “maximum restraint” by both countries, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. Guterres is on his way back to New York from Geneva and Dujarric […]
US captures aspiring American ‘executioner’ for LeT, alleged recruiter
Arul Louis(IANS)- US authorities have captured two alleged supporters of the deadly Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) that was behind the 26/11 Mumbai massacre, according to John Demers, the federal Assistant Attorney-General in charge of national security. He disclosed on Friday the arrest in Texas of a teenager, Michael Kyle Sewell, who, he said, […]
3 international organisations concur India’s economy world’s fastest growing
Arul Louis(IANS) – Three international organizations have endorsed India’s growth story recognizing it as the world’s fastest growing major economy for this and the next three years and in two reports raised some of their earlier projections. On Monday, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report released in Davos estimated India’s gross domestic product growth […]