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: Indian-American Vikram Singh has been appointed to a key Pentagon position to look after entire South and Southeast Asia. "Vikram J Singh has been appointed to the Senior Executive Service and is assigned as deputy assistant secretary of defence for south and Southeast Asia, Office of the Under Secretary of Defence (Policy)," a Pentagon announcement said. Singh previously served as special assistant, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense...
03:57 PM, May 02, 2012
Washington: A 20-year-old Indian-American has been shot dead in Fremont, California, sending shock waves in the community. Rohit Sharma, who migrated to the US from Jalandhar along with his parents some seven year ago, was shot in the head while standing in a driveway of his apartment complex in Fremont, California on April 5, police said. He was pronounced dead at Regional Medical Center of San Jose. The reason for...
05:49 PM, Apr 14, 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
Washington: An Indian American physician in Chicago has been convicted of a health care fraud by a federal grand jury, the US Justice Department said. Dr Jaswinder Rai Chhibber, 43, faces a maximum penalty of 70 years of imprisonment, and a fine of $2,250,000 for being found guilty of five counts of healthcare fraud and four counts of making false statements involving a health care benefits programme between 2007 and...
09:33 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Another honour for India born doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee. He has bagged the 10 thousand pound Guardian First Book Award for his book on cancer. 'The Emperor of All Maladies' which won the Pulitzer prize earlier in April, was the only work of non-fiction on the shortlist. Mukherjee is an oncologist who treats cancer patients at the Columbia University Medical Center. ...
03:18 PM, Dec 02, 2011
London: A history of cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies', won the 2011 Guardian First Book Award on Thursday, beating four works of fiction also on the shortlist. The author, American oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, has described the work as a "biography" of cancer, or "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour". The annual prize organised by British newspaper The...
11:51 AM, Dec 02, 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: 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
Washington: Indian Americans have expressed outrage at the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai and appealed to both India and the US to bring to justice the perpetrators of the 'heinous' crime. In separate statements, Indian Americans urged people back home to maintain calm. "The unconscionable actions in Mumbai have shocked the Indian American community," said Indian American Conservative Council (IACC) board members Ravi C Narayan and Dr Sambhu Banik. "We...
08:52 AM, Jul 14, 2011
Washington: Rajat Gupta, a former Indian American managing director of the global consulting firm McKinsey & Co, accused by US regulators of inside trading "has lived a double life," a leading US daily has suggested. In March, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed an administrative order against him saying that he had passed confidential information to hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam. Government wiretaps and phone records show that...
09:28 AM, May 23, 2011
Washington: Congratulating the US special forces' for the successful operation of killing Osama Bin Laden in a highly secured compound just 800 yards away from Pakistani Military Academy in Abbottabad, Indian Americans said that Pakistani army now stands exposed in view of these new revelations. "The Pakistani military that has institutionalised terror as a proxy war weapon stands exposed despite dubious assertions to the contrary, of its close relationships with...
09:48 AM, May 03, 2011
Washington: Indian American cancer specialist, Siddhartha Mukherjee who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his very first book, says there is no conclusive study linking the use of cell phones to brain cancer. But no study conclusively ruled it out, either, says Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University. Mukherjee's book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" won him the coveted honour. "Finding a causal...
12:00 PM, Apr 20, 2011
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