Indian American Attorney Shot Dead in Georgia
ATLANTA (TIP): An Indian origin senior staff attorney at Cobb County Magistrate was shot and killed May 9 morning while confronting a gunman outside a home in Locust Grove, a report in Atlanta Journal Constitution […]
Indian American Yale Student Builds Textbook Library for Needy Students
NEW YORK (TIP): Kushal Dev, a second-year student at Yale’s Silliman College has founded the Silliman Textbook Library — a communal space housing over 1,000 textbooks that can be used by Yale students who can’t […]
Indian Grocery Store Owner in California Faces Price Gouging Charges
NEW YORK (TIP): On May 7, Alameda County DA O’Malley and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that their offices have jointly filed a nine-count misdemeanor complaint charging Apna Bazar, a large grocery store in […]
Indian American Engineer Charged in Texas with COVID-Relief Fraud
HOUSTON (TIP): An Indian origin engineer has been charged in the Eastern District of Texas with allegedly filing bank loan applications fraudulently seeking more than $10 million dollars in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small […]
Indian American Stony Brook Sisters use GRL PWR to fight disease
NEW YORK (TIP): Ruchi Shah was 15 years old when she noticed a long line of people outside of a tiny clinic waiting to get treatment for mosquito-transmitted diseases during a family trip to India. […]
Indian American Historian Rohit De Named One of 27 Carnegie Fellows
NEW YORK (TIP): Rohit De, an associate professor of history at Yale University, has been named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He joins a class of 27 fellows, each of whom receives up to $200,000 […]
Indian Origin Texas Man Admits Role in Nearly $5 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
HOUSTON (TIP): A 57-year-old Houston man has entered a guilty plea in Corpus Christi federal court for conspiring to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick. Ravinder Syal admitted he engaged in a […]
Indian Origin Chintan Mehta and Munish Kumar on Wells Fargo Expanded Technology Leadership Team
CIOs named to support Corporate Strategy, Digital Platform & Innovation, and Wealth & Investment Management businesses SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced, May 8, two new leaders joining the Technology organization. […]
Three Indian American Students Win Prestigious DOE Fellowship
NEW YORK (TIP): Three Indian American Students are among 26 recipients nationwide of a Department of Energy Computation Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). They are Priya Donti from Carnegie Mellon University, and Dipti Jasrasaria and Amaresh […]
Mega stimulus package: Self-reliance pitch timely, now for delivery
A new slogan, ‘Be vocal about local’, has been added by the Prime Minister to his long list of aspirational-inspirational repertoire. How far it goes in infusing the much-required dynamism in the Covid-hit business and […]
Pathways to a more resilient economy
The redesign of economies, of businesses, and our lives, must begin with questions about purpose. What is the purpose of economic growth? What is the purpose of businesses and other institutions? What is the […]
A plan to revive a broken economy
“A combination of wealth and inheritance taxation and getting multinational companies to pay the same effective rate as local companies through a system of unitary taxation will garner substantial public revenue. They will also reduce […]
Visa, OCI card suspension prevents several Indians in US from flying back home
NEW YORK (TIP): Several Indians in the US, either on the H-1B work visa or Green Card having children who are American citizens by birth, are being prevented from travelling to India aboard the special […]
U.S. Senator Richard Burr steps aside as committee chair in view of FBI stock trades probe
WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. Senator Richard Burr will step aside as chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, after the FBI seized his mobile telephone in a major escalation of a probe of his stock trades […]
China stealing US research on COVID-19: Pompeo
WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused China of “stealing” U.S. intellectual property and data related to COVID-19 research. Mr. Pompeo’s allegations came a day after the FBI and the Department […]
Narendra Modi announces ₹20-lakh-crore economic stimulus package
Gives a call for being ‘vocal for local’ and for self-reliance Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, May 12, said a new-look Lockdown 4.0 beyond May 17 was in the offing, while announcing an economic […]
The solution to fight Coronavirus is now becoming a reality
The world is looking for a drug and a vaccine to overcome the deadly virus. Many countries and many research groups are working feverishly to find an effective remedy. Fortunately, there have been some […]
US India 2020 Trade Relations in Health Sector under COVID -19 Challenge
We are living in unprecedented times. The entire world is focusing on the coronavirus pandemic. Legions have contracted the illness; many have died from it. The virus surprised every sector of society and caught many […]
Science of Spirituality/SKRM Feeds Tens of Thousands During India’s Nationwide Lockdown
NEW YORK / NEW DELHI (TIP): As the world comes to grips with a global pandemic of epic proportions, countries have taken strong measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus. On March 24, […]
Alvida Irrfan!!
In 1986, when director Mira Nair was scouting for her film Salaam Bombay! at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, she fixed her gaze on a young man from Jaipur. “I noticed his focus, his […]
US unemployment applications reach over 26m as many States struggle to deal with the Pandemic
NEW YORK (TIP): From a record number of employments to a record-breaking number of unemployment, the US is facing a grim situation with joblessness. The total number of Americans filing for unemployment shot up to […]
