With over a score of direct Obama appointees in high places, two governors, a House member, a state attorney general and eight state legislators, Indian Americans have over the years gained power and influence far beyond their numbers. And their power keeps growing....
President Barack Obama, with the largest number of Indian Americans in his administration, keeps dipping into the expanding talent pool of the three million-strong Indian American community, to take care of issues ranging from combating terrorist propaganda abroad to nation's health at home....
Researchers in the US, led by an India-born physician scientist, have said they have developed a new blood test that has the potential to detect cancers in their earliest stages....
A federal jury in New York has ordered the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organisation to pay $218.5 million to victims of several attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004, media reported....
After a riot last week at a prison in the US state of Texas that left much of it in shambles, authorities transferred to other facilities 570 of the 2,880 inmates who were serving their sentences there, prison officials said Monday....
A new study led by Indian American professor Raghu Santanam from the Arizona State University has tried to find the secret to the success of apps...
"Birdman", a satirical tale of an ageing movie star attempting to reinvent himself via Broadway, clinched key honours Sunday night at the 87th Academy Awards, where India had a no show this time....
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"Citizenfour", a documentary on former US intelligence expert Edward Snowden, Sunday night won an Oscar award in the Best Documentary Feature category....
Universal's R-rated film "Fifty Shades Of Grey" dropped over 70 percent on ticket sales in North America, but it still got enough to win the box office for the second time on the Oscar weekend....