Global software major Infosys’ co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy on Thursday congratulated his son in-law Rishi Sunak on his appointment as Minister in the new Boris Johnson-led British government. “Our advice to our children, including Rishi, has been to work hard, be honest and do good for society. We wish him well,” Murthy told IANS in […]
Seven Indian-origin kids, along with an American, have been declared co-champions of the US National Spelling Bee after the tie among the eight couldn’t be broken even after 20 rounds of the finals. The unprecedented decision to declare eight co-champions was taken Thursday night after the organisers ran out of their selection of difficult words […]
New Yorks first Indian-American state Senator Kevin Thomas, who assumed office at the beginning of this year and who was born in Dubai, is now advocating tolerance and pushing for the diversity which he had experienced in the UAE. In an exclusive to Gulf News, Thomas on Sunday shared his memories about Dubai where he […]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday introduced the Registration of Marriage of Non-Resident Indians Bill in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill seeks to provide safeguards to Indian women who are trapped in fraudulent marriages with Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). “Therefore, it is necessary that the marriage solemnized or otherwise in India or outside India shall […]
Washington, Jan 31 A Hindu temple has been vandalized in the US state of Kentucky, with officials calling the incident as “hate crime”. At a press conference on Wednesday, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said vandals broke windows at Swaminarayan Temple, located in the state capital’s Bardstown Road, and wrote hateful words on temple walls, reports […]
Kamala Harris, a Senator of Indian descent, announced on Monday that she is running for President in the 2020 elections branding herself a “fighter” for the American people. As the daughter of an Indian mother and an African-Jamaican father, she claims both heritages and chose to declare her candidacy on the day that is observed […]
Two prime accused in the murder case of Canadian-born Jassi Sidhu have been extradited from Canada and are being brought to Punjab, state police sources confirmed on Thursday. The extradition has taken place over 18 years and six months after the murder took place. Those extradited are Jassi’s mother Malkit Kaur Sidhu and maternal uncle […]
President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards on 28 eminent personalities and two organisations of the Indian diaspora for their contributions and achievements in various fields, here on Wednesday. The awards were conferred at the valedictory session of this year’s Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) on the concluding day of the three-day diaspora […]
Facebook has elevated its senior Indian-origin executive Karandeep Anand to head Workplace, the company’s two-year-old enterprise communication tool. Anand, who was earlier Head of Product for Facebook Marketplace and Payments services, would handle the Workplace product team and report to Julien Codorniou who is its Vice President. “I’m excited to now be part of the […]
An Indian-American teenager has won the inaugural “Digital Transformation Hackathon” at Cornell University for designing a device to detect the actual pain level of a patient during a diagnosis. The device designed by 17-year-old Mahum Siddiqi and her team uses neurological activity occurring in one’s brain to help doctors more efficiently determine someone’s pain levels. […]