NEW DELHI (TIP): Meera Vashisht, an Indian-origin girl living in the US, has raised around Rs. 1.4 lakh through crowd funding to distribute LED bulbs to underprivileged sections in India. Meera, who learnt about India’s […]
An Indian-origin hedge fund manager was today charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with insider trading after he reaped unlawful profits of nearly $32 million by trading on pharma stocks on the basis of […]
CHENNAI (TIP): Uma Swaminathan, a New Jersey-based community activist and a fighter against injustice in NJ school system last week released her book “Healing with Herbs – Ancient Ayurvedic Wisdom for Health and Longevity” at […]
NEW YORK: A 21-year-old Indian-origin student at Rutgers University was killed and his roommate seriously injured in a shooting incident at their apartment near the school’s campus in the US state of New Jersey. Shani Patel, a junior […]
WASHINGTON: All charges have been dropped against an Indian-American journalist, who was arrested last week while covering Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s election rally in Chicago which was called off due to unprecedented protests, his news network […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A 45-year-old Indian-origin dean of a prestigious US law school has been accused of sexually harassing his assistant for over a period of several months. Sujit Choudhry has taken an indefinite leave […]
New York– The Supreme Court of Ohio in the US has declined to accept an Indian-origin man’s appeal in a sexual assault case. Upholding the February 2015 conviction by a Logan County Common Pleas jury […]
Indian American Judge Sri Srinivasan name is already floating in the top corridors of the White House as the next Supreme Court Justice, as per meadia reports. The 48 year old Indian-origin American citizen could be the first Indian […]
The 44-year-old technician of Indian roots Cottalango Leon has been chosen for this year’s Oscar for scientific and technical achievement. The Indian American has won the award under the ‘Scientific and Technical Achievements’ category for […]
NEW YORK TIP): Fourteen students from the Indian diaspora have been selected to compete for $1 million in prizes at the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search Competition this year by fielding high-level projects ranging from […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin psychiatrist dubbed “Dr Death” by police has been arrested in the US after 36 of his patients died with at least 12 killed by overdose on prescription medication. Narendra Nagareddy, a psychiatrist in […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin convenience store owner in the US has become a celebrity overnight after he sold one of the three Powerball winning lotteries with a record jackpot of $1.6 billion. Lottery officials confirmed one jackpot-winning […]
An Indian-origin family owned steel firm, Liberty House, is said to be a new potential buyer of two of Tata Steel’s Scottish plants, on the verge of closure due to the crisis in the industry. […]
PepsiCo’s India-born CEO Indra Nooyi has become the biggest alumni donor and the first woman to endow deanship at a top business school, after she gifted an undisclosed amount to prestigious Yale school of management. […]
LONDON: The terrorist who has been dubbed “new Jihadi John” and appeared in the latest ISIS video threatening attacks on the UK is suspected to be an Indian-origin British Muslim convert, media reports said today. Abu […]
Jwala Rambarran, Indian-origin Central Bank Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, has been removed for being “discourteous” to the government by making public details about foreign exchange and recession. The 47-year-old embattled governor, the second person […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin mother has been arrested in the US on charges of causing serious injuries to her five-week-old girl child that left her with broken ribs and leg. Rinkuben Patel, 25, who was arrested on […]
WASHINGTON: Sanjay Pradhan, an Indian-origin World Bank official, has been selected to lead a multination initiative focused on improving government transparency, accountability and responsiveness to citizens. Mr Pradhan will lead the Open Government Partnership Support Unit […]
WASHINGTON: The US town of Spotswood in New Jersey will set up a scholarship fund to honour the memory of an Indian-origin emergency medical technician, who died in the line of duty in July this year, […]
TORONTO: A 40-year-old Indian-origin woman is facing murder charges for stabbing to a woman death in the heart of Toronto, police said. Rohinie Bisesar stabbed the victim at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto’s financial district […]
NEW YORK: A 57-year-old Indian-origin pediatrician in the US has been jailed for 30 years for sexual exploitation of a child and producing child pornography. Rakesh Punn, of New York had pleaded guilty in April […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin scientist has developed a new, open-source software that can help track the embryonic development and movement of neuronal cells throughout the body of the worm, and is now available to scientists. The software is […]
LONDON: A 11-year-old Indian-origin girl, Anushka Binoy, is one of Britain’s brainiest students. She bagged the highest possible score in the IQ test of Mensa, the largest high IQ society in the world. Binoy has joined […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal’s Indian-origin Madhesi leaders on Monday submitted their 11-point demand to the goverment during their first meeting with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to end the political logjam, but no breakthrough emerged from […]
Two Indian-origin businessmen have been ranked by Forbes magazine among the richest entrepreneurs in America under the age of 40, a list that has been topped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Vivek Ramaswamy, 30, a […]
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