COLUMBUS, OH (TIP): In a historic win, Indian American lawyer Aftab Pureval, 39, has been elected mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, in Tuesday, November 2 election to become the first Asian American chosen to lead the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Born Kalpen Suresh Modi, noted Indian American actor and former President Barack Obama’s adviser Kal Penn has come out as gay, and revealed that he’s engaged to Josh, his partner of 11 […]
NORWICH, CT (TIP): Democrat Swaranjit Singh made history on November2 when he became the first Sikh ever elected to a City Council in the State of Connecticut. Sikhism, the fifth most-followed religion in the world, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Akilan Sankaran, a 14-year-old Indian American student from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has won the top $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize in America’s premier science and engineering competition for middle school students. Akilan is […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): A new book narrating the rise of “phenomenal” US Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman to occupy this position, and in the process shattering several glass ceilings, by a Washington DC-based […]
OTTAWA (TIP): Punjab-origin Canadian politician Anita Anand was on Tuesday, October 26, appointed country’s new Defense Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, over a month after his Liberal Party returned power in […]
Nirpal S Shergill LONDON (TIP): Nine Group Hotels and Investments, the UK-based company behind a series of hotel brands around the country, on Wednesday announced the sudden death of its Indian-origin founder and CEO Vivek […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Indian-American policy expert Neera Tanden, a close confidant of US President Joe Biden, has been named White House staff secretary, eight months after Republican lawmakers scuttled her nomination to another key post. […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian American Astronaut Raja Chari is all set to lead NASA’s next mission to the International Space Station on Sunday, October 31, the Halloween Day, on his very first space flight. The […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Joseph Cairo, Chairman of Nassau Republican Committee on Oct. 18, 2021 has nominated Sharanjit Singh Thind, as a Vice Chairman of the party. Sharanjit Singh Thind, becomes the first, and the only […]
WASHINGTON(TIP): US President Joe Biden on Thursday, October 14, announced his intent to nominate Indian American Ravi Chaudhary to a key position in the Pentagon. A former Air Force officer, Chaudhary has been nominated for […]
BOSTON (TIP): Indian American Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will resign in January 2022 and return to Harvard University, the Fund’s Managing Director Kristalina […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): Six-year-old Indian-origin Ishani Shanmugam broke Singapore’s national record for most digits of Pi memorized by reciting 1,560 decimal places. Sitting in her living room on October 13, Ishani calmly recited the digits in […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The White House on Monday, October 18, named 19 young emerging leaders as its fellows for 2021-22, three of whom are Indian-Americans. The prestigious White House Fellowship programme embeds professionals from diverse backgrounds […]
WASHINGTON, DC (TIP): – A Free Trade Agreement is the next frontier in the India-U.S. relationship,Nisha Desai Biswal, Indian American president of the U.S.-India Business Council and a former U.S. diplomat, said. Biswal, speaking at […]
QUEENS, NY (TIP): Felicia Singh, the first Guyanese and Punjabi person to win the Democratic Party primary in Queens Council District 32, is joining the battle for the prestigious seat to center equity and justice […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Deven Parekh, Insight Partners’ Indian American managing director, is among the five winners of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ 2021 Ripple of Hope Award. Parekh joins poet Amanda Gorman, entrepreneur, and author, […]
AUSTIN, TX (TIP): Four of Microsoft’s top leaders have received the 2021 C.K. Prahalad Award for their collaborative leadership to transform it into a carbon negative company by 2030 and remove all its historical emissions […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Bengaluru, India,-born Ramya Jawahar Kudekallu is all set to lead New York City Bar’s International Human Rights Committee making it a diverse, multicultural and inclusive body, prioritizing HR issues and advocacy approaches. […]
BRAMPTON, CANADA / LONDON/ NEW YORK (TIP): More Punjab-origin MPs from Canada and UK have condemned the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in UP where eight people, including, four farmers, were killed on Sunday, October 3. Canadian […]
SINGAPORE (TIP): An Indian-origin Singaporean Sikh couple will be releasing online a 24-episode docuseries that chronicles the vast expanse of sites that were visited by Guru Nanak during his lifetime. Amardeep Singh and his wife […]
Indian American astronaut Sirisha Bandla joins Board of Advisers of the Kalpana Chawla Project NEW YORK (TIP): As UN celebrates “Women in Space” during World Space Week (Oct. 4-10), Indian American astronaut Sirisha Bandla has […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Little would have this NRI living in the US known that singing a Hindi song on a New York Street would get him so much fame. Gaurang Rakholia was randomly stopped by […]
HOUSTON (TIP):“Since my son was taken from our family in a senseless act of violence, we have received an outpouring of support and love from the greater Houston community.” These were the words of Pyara […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A 26-year-old Sikh-American officer in the US Marines who has been allowed to wear the turban – the first person in the 246-year history of the elite force allowed to do so – […]
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