US President-elect Joe Biden recently appointed Rohit Chopra as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Sameera Fazili as the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. On Monday, Joe Biden announced Indian American Rohit Chopra as the Director...
Thousands from the United States and India sketched for “Inauguration Kolam 2021” at the virtual inauguration committee’s ceremony to mark Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s Indian roots. Kolam, a traditional South Indian art form of geometrical shapes and patterns, featured as...
Aditya Singh, charged with felony criminal trespass and misdemeanor theft, said he was too afraid to fly. According to prosecutors, a man managed to live inside Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months without getting detected because he was too...
The G7 Summit will take place from June 11 to 13 in Cornwall in England. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently to the G7 summit. The proposed summit will be the first in-person G7...
The NYC District 23 candidate has pledged not to receive funds from corporations. Jaslin Kaur, a progressive candidate from Queens for the City Council, has received donations from the community that make the contributions the second-highest among the contenders and...
Air India on Friday announced the commencement of its first-ever non-stop services between Hyderabad and Chicago, which will fulfil a long-standing demand for a direct air-link between the two major cities. "Air India continues to add wind beneath its wings...
While a larger number of Indians reacted to WhatsApp's new privacy rule, the blocking of apps in the United States following the violent attack on the Capitol is days to be the main reason. Messaging platform Signal announced late Saturday...
The committee has previously summoned Facebook over the issue of political bias on the platform. India’s parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has summoned Facebook and Twitter officials on January 21 over the misuse of social media. The official agenda...
Lawlor wrote a letter to the Indian government in November raising concerns about Jesuit priest Stan Swamy’s arrest but hasn’t received any reply yet. On Friday United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor said that India doesn’t...
Green zone perimeter established in Washington DC and around 25,000 members of the National Guard are deployed. Update: US Defence officials stated that they fear an insider attack or threat from the service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s...
