US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen scoffed at the idea of the Federal Reserve minting a $1 trillion platinum coin to keep the government from defaulting on its national debt that had breached the $31.4 trillion limit last week, calling for the Congress to raise the limit to enable the state to honour its commitment on int...
India-born Raj Subramaniam, President & CEO of FedEx Corporation, will receive the 2023 Horatio Alger Award -- given to "esteemed individuals" who overcome adversity to achieve professional and personal success. ...
At least seven people were shot dead by a gunman in California, just two days after one of the deadliest mass shooting incident in the US state just two days ago that claimed 10 lives. ...
A 29-year-old African-American man, who died on January 10 of unspecified injuries just three days after he was stopped by police in Memphis for reckless driving, was beaten like a "human pinata", according to lawyers for the victim's family. ...
A Capitol Hill rioter who posed with his feet propped up atop former House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk has been found guilty of all charges. ...
US President Joe Biden has nominated a state department official as a new special envoy for North Korean human rights, the White House said. ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a new federal investment to build and commercialise the world's first photonic-based, fault-tolerant quantum computer. ...
The 16th annual Global Healthcare Summit (GHS) organized by the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) concluded with a call and commitment to give back to India, our motherland, making healthcare accessible, efficient, and equitable for all, at Hotel Novotel on Va...
The Global Indian Council, a recently established global network of the Indian Diaspora based in the USA, launched its first meeting of the Center of Excellence on Education, Language & Literature (GIC-CoE-ELL) in a Zoom meeting on January 21st, 2023. The CoE met for the first time after GIC's launch in July 2022, fo...
A man, apparently a Sikh, was allegedly struck on the head, causing his turban to fall on the ground, by an unidentified man, who also made "derogatory comments" at a subway station in Canada, police said. ...
