Washington, Jan 31 A Hindu temple has been vandalized in the US state of Kentucky, with officials calling the incident as “hate crime”. At a press conference on Wednesday, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said vandals broke windows at Swaminarayan Temple, located in the state capital’s Bardstown Road, and wrote hateful words on temple walls, reports […]
Kamala Harris, a Senator of Indian descent, announced on Monday that she is running for President in the 2020 elections branding herself a “fighter” for the American people. As the daughter of an Indian mother and an African-Jamaican father, she claims both heritages and chose to declare her candidacy on the day that is observed […]
Two prime accused in the murder case of Canadian-born Jassi Sidhu have been extradited from Canada and are being brought to Punjab, state police sources confirmed on Thursday. The extradition has taken place over 18 years and six months after the murder took place. Those extradited are Jassi’s mother Malkit Kaur Sidhu and maternal uncle […]
President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards on 28 eminent personalities and two organisations of the Indian diaspora for their contributions and achievements in various fields, here on Wednesday. The awards were conferred at the valedictory session of this year’s Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) on the concluding day of the three-day diaspora […]
Writer E.L James, whose “Fifty Shades of Grey” series has broken sales records for contemporary adult publishing with over 150 million copies sold worldwide, has written a new novel which will be published globally in April, publisher Penguin Random House said. Titled “The Mister”, the contemporary romance, according to the publisher, will be set in […]
Celebrity astrologer Sanjay B Jumaani Predicts In our New-Year story for the last 3 years we had predicted something nobody had even passed a fleeting reference- the weather! While we had said 2016=9, Mars that is fiery Red, so shall be one of the hottest years. Ditto wias said of 2017=1, Sun that’s fiery too! […]
Facebook has elevated its senior Indian-origin executive Karandeep Anand to head Workplace, the company’s two-year-old enterprise communication tool. Anand, who was earlier Head of Product for Facebook Marketplace and Payments services, would handle the Workplace product team and report to Julien Codorniou who is its Vice President. “I’m excited to now be part of the […]
An Indian-American teenager has won the inaugural “Digital Transformation Hackathon” at Cornell University for designing a device to detect the actual pain level of a patient during a diagnosis. The device designed by 17-year-old Mahum Siddiqi and her team uses neurological activity occurring in one’s brain to help doctors more efficiently determine someone’s pain levels. […]
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi There are no business problems, only people problems — and once these get resolved, so do the business problems, says motivational guru Shiv Khera, whose fifth book has just hit the stands while the first one has entered its 20th year and is set to be relaunched. “I am not […]
Circa June 2011, Rohan had just migrated to Australia from New Delhi. Apart from physically being in a completely new country miles away from home, he had to accustom himself to the very different culture of his new homeland. Setting up his home was going to be a huge task. Unlike back in Delhi, he […]