VANCOUVER, BC (TIP): Japgobind Singh, whose family hails from Jalandhar, has been making waves in Canada as he has got the solo pilot’s license at the age of 16. Hailing from Buttaran village near Bhogpur […]
NEW YORK (TIP): E-commerce company Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah has fired 870 people, or 5 per cent of the company’s global workforce, as the growth he anticipated has not materialized this year. In a memo, […]
NEW YORK (TIP): An Indian American teenager has invented a low-cost tool to spot elephant poachers with machine-learning-driven software that analyzes movement patterns in thermal infrared videos of humans and elephants. Anika Puri, the 17-year-old […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): An Indian American professor at University of Maryland (UMD) allegedly built a machine-learning software “useful for surveillance” as part of a six-figure research grant from Chinese tech giant Alibaba, according to a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to appoint Indian-Americans Manu Asthana and Madhu Beriwal to his National Infrastructure Advisory Council. The President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) advises the White […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Visibly frustrated, matchmaker Sima Taparia recounts her struggle to an “Indian Matchmaking” producer: She has been tasked with finding potential partners for a 30-something Indian man living in Nashik, a few hours […]
SOMERSET, NJ (TIP): Four Indian American healthcare professionals— Dr. Nisha Kotecha, Dr. Amit Borah, Dr. Tushar Patel and Ritesh Shah — have been recognized as NJBIZ Healthcare Heroes. They were among individuals and organizations across […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was stabbed repeatedly at a public appearance in New York state on Friday, August 12, 33 years after Iran’s then-supreme leader called for him to be […]
DALLAS, TX (TIP); Texas Governor Greg Abbott has named Indian American entrepreneur Arun Agarwal as vice chairman of a body tasked with marketing Texas, in 2018, “to help bring business leaders together.” He said, “domestically […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Amit Jani, former national Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) director for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, has become acting White House liaison at the Department of Homeland Security, according to a Politico West […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Three Indian American candidates, Republican Harry Arora and Democrats Kesha Ram Hinsdale and Josh Kaul have advanced to November elections winning party nominations in the Aug 9 primary in Connecticut, Vermont and […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Indian-American teenager Aarya Walvekar from Virginia has been crowned Miss India USA 2022 at the annual pageant held in New Jersey. An aspiring actor Aarya, 18, said, “It has been my childhood […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): After serving more than a decade on Capitol Hill, Indian American policy advisor Karishma Merchant has joined Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit driving transformation in the American workforce and […]
EDISON, NJ (TIP): 1A 0-year-old Indian American boy from New Jersey has recently won top honors in PETA kids 2022 All Star for Animals Contest. Nirvaan Agarwal has attended county commissioner meetings to advocate for […]
VANCOUVER (TIP): Canadian police have issued a rare warning about 11 men linked to extreme levels of gang violence. The police have warned the public to avoid being near them. Out of the 11 men, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): US authorities are investigating claims of human rights activists that turbans of nearly 50 Sikh asylum seekers were confiscated after they were detained along the Mexican border, according to media reports. According […]
LONDON (TIP): A 20-year-old British Sikh man found in the grounds of Queen Elizabeth II’s Windsor Castle on Christmas Day last year has been charged with treason offences on Tuesday, August 2, the Metropolitan Police […]
CHARLOTTE (TIP) : Indian American Dimple Ajmera who became the first Asian-American and youngest woman to be elected to Charlotte, North Carolina City Council in 2017, has been re-elected. In the at-large race on July […]
DALLAS (TIP): Gowri Natarajan Sharma, has become the first person of color and the first Indian American to be elected president of the board of trustees of Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), among the 10 […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran, an Indian American professor of engineering at Columbia University, has been elected Chair of the Hoover Board of Award commemorating the civic and humanitarian achievements of engineers. Named in honor […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed insider trading charges against several Indian Americans in connection with three separate schemes that together yielded more than $6.8 million in illicit gains. […]
CAMDEN, NJ (TIP): A 38-year-old Indian American has been convicted of international parental kidnapping after he took his US-born child to India and later failed to bring the kid back to the mother in the […]
MARYLAND (TIP): With opinion polls heavily favoring Democrats, Indian American Aruna Miller is likely to be elected as the next Lieutenant Governor of Maryland in November as best-selling author Wes Moore’s running mate. In a […]
LONDON (TIP): Liz Truss, the incumbent caretaker Foreign Secretary in deposed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsons government, beat her rival Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin former Chancellor, according to a survey of ruling Conservative party members, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (IP): As Instacart prepares to IPO, its Indian American co-founder Apoorva Mehta says he will be stepping down as executive chairman and transitioning off the board of directors once the company goes public. […]
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