Washington: A growing number of Americans are travelling to India to seek treatment for rare diseases through India's experimental embryonic stem cell therapy, according to an investigative report. Among them Cash Burnaman, a 6-year-old South Carolina boy, who travelled with his parents to India seeking treatment for a rare genetic condition that has left him developmentally disabled, CNN reported. "Cash is mute. He walks with the aid of braces. To...
09:41 AM, May 28, 2012
Washington: A record number of Indian Americans - at least 12 - are in the fray for the November 2012 polls vying for a place in the House of Representative, reflecting the serious effort of the fastest growing ethnic community in the US to politically empower itself. Cutting across party lines, these Indian-American candidates are spread all over the country with two each from California and Michigan. Congressman Hansen Clare,...
03:24 AM, May 07, 2012
Washington: The Indian-American community has come out in strong support of US President Barack Obama, who kicked off his re-election campaign with two rallies in Ohio and Virginia, with an overwhelming 85 per cent of them favouring a second term for him. About 85 per cent of the Indian-Americans support Obama for a second term, according to a latest survey conducted by Lake Research Partners, a DC-based political consultancy firm,...
06:51 PM, May 06, 2012
Washington: Asian Americans with college degrees are more likely to be jobless than their white counterparts in this harsh economy, according to a report. A study by the Economic Policy Institute entitled "Unfairly Disadvantaged" found that, while Asian Americans had lower overall jobless rates than whites from 2007-2010, those with Bachelor's degrees or higher faced tougher odds of finding work than their Caucasian counterparts, reported Xinhua. The findings are important,...
07:51 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Washington: Indian Americans numbering 3.2 million is the third largest Asian American community in US after Chinese Americans (3.8 million) and Filipinos (3.4 million). As per the details released by US Census Bureau for the year 2010, Asian American communities has emerged as the fastest growing ethnic communities in the last one decade. The total US population grew by 9.7 per cent, from 281.4 million in 2000 to 308.7 million...
10:08 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Americans queued up for the iPad 3, without realising that it's a product made, assembled and packaged in China. ...
04:14 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Washington: Having doubled its population in the last decade, Indian-Americans have emerged as a powerful political group in the US that the Republican and the Democratic parties cannot ignore in a presidential election year. According to 2010 census, more than 11.54 lakh Indian-Americans are eligible to vote as against 5.76 lakhs in 2000, said a report released by two American NGOs -- South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) and Asian...
10:19 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Chicago: Whether it's pruning friends lists, removing unwanted comments or restricting access to their profiles, Americans are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks, a new report found. The report released on Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that people are managing their privacy settings and their online reputation more often than they did two years earlier. For example, 44 per cent of respondents said in 2011...
08:00 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New York: Bill Gates tops this year's Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth calculated at $ 59 billion. Forbes says the Microsoft co-founder saw his wealth increase by $ 5 billion from last year. Investor Warren Buffett ranks second with a fortune of $ 39 billion, though Forbes says the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive's wealth shrank by $ 6 billion from a year ago....
08:37 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama's approval rating got a small lift after he unveiled a jobs plan last week, keeping him ahead of all potential Republican rivals in the 2012 election, a poll said on Wednesday. The percentage of Americans who view Obama's performance favorably edged up to 47 per cent in the poll conducted from September 8-12. The president, a Democrat, unveiled his $447 billion job creation proposal on September...
09:21 AM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: Ten years after September 11, 2001, the people in the United States have moved on, but, the horror of the worst terrorist attack remains as a nightmare on their minds. The few hours of terror changed America and thereafter, the lives of the people in America is not what it was before September 11, 2011. IBNLive spoke to Kabir Chowdhury, a self employed contractor, who experienced the 9/11...
01:05 PM, Sep 11, 2011
New Delhi: Ten years after September 11, 2001, the people in the United States have moved on, but, the horror of the worst terrorist attack remains as a nightmare on their minds. The few hours of terror changed America and thereafter, the lives of the people in America is not what it was before September 11, 2011. IBNLive spoke to Atul Gupta, Director, Finance, Thomson Reuters (Professional Division), who experienced...
12:53 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Washington: Ten years after terrorists struck US unleashing a backlash against the South Asians given their close resemblance to the hijackers from the Middle East, the community has come a long way. "Looking back, the country has changed substantially. Just after 9/11, people at large looked at South Asians with some suspicion. Things have completely changed now," Thomas Abraham, founder president and chairman emeritus of the Global Organization of People...
04:16 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Washington: Ten years after the 9/11 terror attacks, 58 percent Americans believe that the tragedy fundamentally altered the way they live with 28 percent saying they have permanently changed, according to a new poll. In the 10 years since the attacks, there has been no decrease in the percentage of Americans who say they have permanently changed the way they live their own lives, an Aug 11-14 USA Today/Gallup poll...
12:58 PM, Sep 09, 2011
Washington: In cities across the US, a large number of Indian Americans turned up for rallies and protest march being held in support of anti-corruption agitation launched by social activist Anna Hazare, whose fast entered the sixth day on Sunday. Expressing dissatisfaction over the "lackluster response" from the Indian government, participants of the rallies in the US on Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to act expeditiously to consider Hazare's...
02:19 PM, Aug 21, 2011
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