(160202) — IOWA, Feb. 2, 2016 (Xinhua) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the United States, Jan. 30, 2016. Hillary Clinton won Bernie…
New York, April 25 (IANS) Singing of kirtans at an Ivy League university has drawn protests from a multi-racial group of students there. Unlike in the protests against yoga, the demonstrators, this time, were not…
By Arul Louis New York, April 25 (IANS) Singing of kirtans at an Ivy League university has drawn protests from a section of Indian students there. Unlike in the protests against yoga the demonstrators this…
By Anasudhin Azeez London, April 24 (IANS) Parliament Speaker John Bercow urged the Indian diaspora in Britain to engage more with mainstream politics and get proper representation in parliament. “The community makes a huge contribution…
Toronto, April 23 (IANS) Zee TV and Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra on Saturday received the $50,000 Global Indian Award from the Canada-India Foundation. The award was presented by Canada’s Investment Minister Navdeep Bains at…
(Photo: IANS) Washington, April 23 (IANS) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump adopted a fake accent to punctuate the punchline of a story mocking a credit card company worker in India. Trump on Friday tailored his…
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) Thrilled at the detection of the elusive gravitational waves a century after Albert Einstein’s prediction and the first observation of collision of two black holes at the Interferometer…
Chandigarh, April 22 (IANS) Former Chief Minister and Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh has been forced to cancel his political rallies in Canada following objections raised with the Canadian government. “On the request of the…
By Anasudhin Azeez London, April 20 (IANS) British Parliament Speaker John Bercow has said democracy thrives in pluralism and free speech is the cornerstone of a vibrant democracy. Speaking to Asian Lite newspaper from London,…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on skill development with US-based NGO Wadhwani Operating Foundation (WOF). The trilateral MoU is to…
New York, April 20 (IANS) A Sikh-American teenager who authored a book about bullying that the community faces in the US was forced to remove his turban at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California,…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, April 20 (IANS) The poll season is a busy time for politicians and certainly not for vacationing. But for Punjab’s political leaders, it is also the time for foreign trips. The…
New York, April 20 (IANS) Researchers, one of them an Indian-origin scientist, from Ohio State University have discovered the area of the brain responsible for recognising human facial expressions. Using the functional magnetic resonance imaging…
London, April 20 (IANS) As the world gets prepared to build smart cities, new research led by an Indian-origin scientist has highlighted the dangerous effects of indoor pollution on human health and has called for…
By Gurmukh Singh Toronto, April 19 (IANS) Top leaders in Canada’s Ontario province led by Premier Kathleen Wynne joined the Sikh community in celebrating Baisakhi at the Ontario legislative assembly. For the first time, the…
New York, April 19 (IANS) In ground-breaking research, an Indian-American scientist has engineered T-cells — a type of immune cells — to break pancreatic cancer’s physical and immunological walls using immunotherapy. Dr. Sunil Hingorani, a…
Kochi, April 18 (IANS) UAE-based healthcare conglomerate VPS Healthcare on Monday announced it will enter India by acquiring majority stake in Lakeshore Hospital here to set global benchmarks in healthcare delivery. Lakeshore Hospital here will…
Moscow, April 18 (IANS) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday briefed External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj about progress in the investigations into the deaths of three Indian nationals in Russia earlier this year. The…
London, April 18 (IANS) A 33-year-old Indian-origin student was found dead after he was struck by a Tube train at an underground station in Britain, media reported on Monday. Mir Baquer Ali Rizvi, who was…
By Rakesh Ahuja Earlier this month, Harinder Sidhu presented her credentials to President Pranab Mukherjee as Australia’s High Commissioner to India. She thus joins two other western Heads of Mission of Indian origin in New…