Highlights All visa appointments scheduled now are genuine appointments that may be rescheduled if applicants find earlier appointments but will not be cancelled by the US Embassy and Consulates outside of extraordinary circumstances, said the representative. However, the US Embassy has very strict criteria to qualify for emergency appointments on […]
Highlights The police said the family was “taken against their will from a business along the 800 block of South Highway 59” in Merced city, according to California-based ABC10. The police said no contact has been made with the family so far, nor has any ransom request come through. They […]
Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were conferred with the Padma Bhushan by the government of India on the eve of the 73rd Republic Day on Tuesday. Nadella and Pichai are being honored for their contributions in the “trade and industry” category. Jaffery […]
Indian American tech entrepreneur Dr Romesh Wadhwani, who was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India for 2020, received his award from India’s consul general in San Francisco on Wednesday, 21 Jan 2022, according to a release by the foundation run by him Romesh T. Wadhwani (born 1947/48) is an Indian-American billionaire businessman, the […]
Indian-American physician Vivek Murthy has been confirmed by the Senate as President Joe Biden’s surgeon general, a role in which his top priority would be responding to the coronavirus pandemic that has severely hit the country. Dr Murthy, 43, would occupy the position of America’s Surgeon General for the second […]
Nitin Shah, an Indian American attorney, was appointed Sept. 30 as one of three members to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States by President Biden. The two others are Leslie B. Kiernan and Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo. Shah currently serves as general counsel of the U.S. General […]
The Minority Business Development Agency Sept. 23 announced 14 individuals with awards during the 2021 National MED Week Conference, with two Indian Americans named among the group. Among the winners were Anjali Ann Ramakumaran and Jayesh Doshi. Ramakumaran, of Ampcus Inc., was awarded with the Robert J. Brown Minority Business […]
Last month the United States Census Bureau published the 2020 Census that proved once again that America is indeed a melting pot of cultures. The improvements and changes made by the Bureau in the question design and data processing have enabled a more thorough investigation revealing that the US population […]
First Indian-American hired by Brookfield police in 2006 becomes police chief of Chicago suburb Michael Kuruvilla has made history as the first Malayalee American police chief in the US becoming head of the police force in Brookfield, a Chicago, Illinois, suburb. Previously deputy chief Kuruvilla, 37, the first Indian-American hired […]
15th August 2021 marks 75 years of a significant milestone in the history of India, the hard-fought freedom from British Rule. While the Indian Government has initiated ‘Azadi ka Amrut Mahostav’ campaign to celebrate 75 years of Independence, an organization representing the Indian diaspora in the US is setting up […]
As Malayalis around the world celebrate the harvest festival of Onam, with the final and the most important day falling on Friday, preparations are under way in America too after Covid had halted social gatherings for more than a year now. Onam – the state festival of the southern state […]
President Joe Biden intends to nominate yet another Indian American Ashish Vazirani in a key national security role as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon. White House announced the nomination of India born Vazirani, Principal of A2O Strategies, LLC Tuesday with three others in […]