He came to the United States with a tuition-free scholarship to obtain his MS and PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After his graduation, he worked there as an assistant professor in electrical engineering there as well. ...
Raghav Ganesh, a 13-year-old Indian-American seventh-grader has won a $5,000 award and named one of America's top 10 youth volunteers of 2015 for designing and building a device to help visually impaired people....
Yet another white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in March in one of a spate of similar incidents sparking protests around America will not face criminal charges....
Dr. Sivanadane (Siva) Mandjiny was one of the 17 winners of the annual awards that serve to underscore the importance of teaching. It also carries a commemorative bronze medallion and a $12,500 cash prize....
Director Aditya Vikram Sengupta's 'Labour of Love', has won three top awards - Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay - at the 15th edition of the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF)....
Rohit Bhargava, an IIT-Delhi graduate and now with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed stainless staining that provides a new tool for clinicians and researchers for better diagnosis of cancer....
Fueled by immigration, America's Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-ranging study of religions in the nation....
The US Department of Justice appointed Saeed Mody of the Civil Rights Division as the trial attorney in the case against former Alabama police officer Eric Parker for using excessive force against Sureshbhai Patel....
Dr. Manoj Vora, who climbed Mount Everest in 2013 on his second attempt, has started a campaign to rebuild the village of Kurima, near Mt. Everest in Nepal, which was flattened in the devastating earthquake. “They helped me to reach the summit and it is my turn to help them. Only 32 families live there,†Dr. Vora, a physician at the L...
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is for the very first time scheduled to exhibit post-impressionist Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh's quartet of flower paintings - two of irises, and two of roses....