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Senate Passes Legislation to Rename Houston Post Office to Honor Sikh Police Officer

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a legislation, H-Res. 5317, to rename a post office in…

Inventor, Entrepreneur and ‘Father of Fiber Optics’ Narinder Singh Kapany Dies at 94

Renowned physicist, businessman and Sikh activist Narinder Singh Kapany died on Dec. 4 in the…

Indian American Inventor Gitanjali Rao is Time Magazine’s First Ever ‘Kid of the Year’

Time, Time for Kids and Nickelodeon announced 15-year-old scientist and inventor Indian American Gitanjali Rao from Colorado as the first…

State of Hate: Underreporting Said to Skew the Real Picture of Hate Crimes Against South Asian Americans

With racism having taken center stage in this political climate, with Breonna Taylor and George…

FBI Still on the Hunt for the Most Wanted Indian Fugitive in the U.S. who Brutally Killed his Wife

Fugitive Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel, now 29, who had fatally stabbed his wife, Palak Patel in 2015 at…

Indian Americans Gear up for Scaled Down Version of Thanksgiving Holiday

For the past 25 years, the Baichwal family of Wappingers Falls, New York, has been…

From an Orphanage in Calcutta to New York State Senate, Jeremy Cooney’s Audacious Journey

His zeal and passion to serve the community that has given him so much, has…

The ‘Unopposed’ Nima Kulkarni Heads Back to Kentucky House to Break More Glass Ceilings

Nirupama ‘Nima’ Kulkarni, an immigration and employment law attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, who immigrated to the…

Indian American N.Y. State Senator Kevin Thomas Re-elected with Improved Margin of Victory

Kevin Thomas, is really pleased as he feels vindicated by his reelection as State Senator…

Onward to Oxford: Four Indian Americans Among 32 Awarded Rhodes Scholarship from the U.S.

Four Indian Americans are among 32 Rhodes Scholars, one of the top scholarships available to…

Indian American Man Charged with Attempted Murder for Pushing a Woman Onto N.Y. Subway Tracks

Aditya Vemulapati, 24, a homeless man of Indian origin, has been arrested and booked on…

Meet Vandana Slatter, the Washington State Legislator and Daughter of the East and West

Vandana Slatter sounds happy as she cheerily greets me. And she definitely has a reason…