In yet another deadly attack on Indians and Indian-Americans in the United States in recent months, a 34-year-old trained classical dancer from India and a student of Washington University, was shot dead in St Louis, Missouri.
'The president and this administration have been working very, very hard to make sure we're doing everything we can to work with state and local authorities to try to thwart and disrupt those kinds of attacks and make it clear to anybody who might consider them that they'll be held properly accountable'
Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) in a statement said America's hotel owners are deeply saddened, shocked, and outraged by this senseless act of violence against a small business owner that cost him his life.
The incident took place in San Mateo on Monday, the police were quoted as saying by the the report.
Video surveillance shows Ali walking to his home at night with a packet in his hand when the three men chase him.
The Consulate General of India in New York said on Thursday that no foul play is suspected at this stage in the death of Shreyas Reddy Benigeri, a student of the Lindner School of Business, Cincinnati.
It had meant nothing but moments of intimacy, sweet but transient moments. An intriguing excerpt from Manju Kapur's new novel The Gallery.
'Everybody thought I was crazy to quit my job and jump into entrepreneurship.'
Animated or aggressive? Debate over the emblem atop the new Parliament building rages with several historians dismayed that the essence of the original 'protective' Ashokan lions has been effaced while others say the differences are minuscule and no two pieces of art can be identical.
With his elevation as the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, in whom co-founder of the microblogging giant Jack Dorsey has "bone-deep" trust, joins the growing power club of Indian-origin executives helming US-based global multinationals. Twitter's outgoing CEO Dorsey announced on Monday that 37-year old Agrawal, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Stanford University alumnus, will be the company's new chief executive as he stepped down after 16 years at the company that he co-founded and helmed. A report in The New York Times said Agrawal will receive an annual salary of $1 million, in addition to bonuses, restricted stock units and performance-based stock units.
Professor Masooda Bashir and doctoral student Tanusree Sharma from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign analysed 50 COVID-19-related apps available in the Google Play store for their access to users' personal data and their privacy protections. The researchers noted that it is disconcerting that these apps are continuously collecting and processing highly sensitive and personally identifiable information, about health, location and direct identifiers like name, age, email address and voter or national identification of a user.
Krishna's appointment as head of the global IT giant adds to the growing list of Indian-origin executives at the helm of some of the biggest multinational companies. Krishna joins the club that includes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, PepsiCo's former CEO Indra Nooyi and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen.
'She was the unanimous choice of the search-cum-selection committee.'
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10 things you must know about the Girls Who Code founder.
Anjana Reddy explores the market for home-grown Indian celebrity fashion brands at affordable prices.
'We have been getting e-mails for assignments and events. People from random islands, like Seychelles, called us to perform for India's independence day. It's crazy to see how the internet affects the world. We feel blessed that so many people recognise us. We have even got mails from low-budget feature film makers in the South -- like they want us to be the heroines!' Twins Poonam and Priyanka Shah give us a jhalak into their lives!
Two Indian brothers are among four men who have been indicted by a US federal court on charges of providing material support to slain Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, prosecutors said.
A solution to motion leaks would be to lower the sample rate of the sensors
Shriya Rangarajan has come a long way from the comforts of the western world.
'I could see it not having any impact whatsoever,' says Stephen P Cohen on Obama's India visit.
With fresh enrollments crossing 100,000 mark, the total number of Indian students studying in the US reported a sharp increase this year.
Roger Ebert was a prolific movie critic, author of half a dozen influential books on cinema and a brave fighter against cancer, which had robbed him of his voice and finally, his life, on April 4.
From an outsider in Hollywood to an Academy Award-winning maverick and bringing Life Of Pi -- a book famously considered unfilmable --to the big screen, filmmaker Ang Lee has come a long way.
Indian-American professor Raman Chadha was among the eight-member team which helped flag questions for United States President Barack Obama, as he held the first ever Twitter town hall at the White House.
Study Abroad expert Karan Gupta in a chat with Get Ahead reader on April 18 discussed queries like requirements for pursuing ME in automobile engineering in Germany, when to take GRE, TOEFL and IELTS tests, student loans for pursuing studies abroad and a range of other related. Unedited excerpts:
Kumar's five-year term as dean at Chicago Booth will begin on January 1, 2011. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore alumnus is currently Stanford Business School's senior associate dean for academic affairs.
Vineet Gupta, MD of Jamboree Education, hosted a chat on June 25 and discussed various aspects related to study abroad. The transcript.
Nearly six months after he nominated Dr Islam A 'Isi' Siddiqui to be the chief agricultural negotiator at the office of the US Trade Representative, US President Barack Obama -- fed up with what the White House called 'obstructionist' policies by Senate Republicans in not confirming Siddiqui and several others -- appointed Siddiqui and 14 others as soon as the Senate adjourned for the Easter vacation-recess.
Dr Siddiqui is currently the vice president, Science and Regulatory Affairs at the Washington, DC-based CropLife America, where he is responsible for regulatory and international trade issues related to crop protection chemicals.
An Indian software professional talks about the job crisis in the US and how it is impacting India.
If the protests die down and the bureaucracy speeds up, India might just get a new world-class university. Mining magnate Anil Agarwal is putting $1 billion into this dream.
Imagine if people could use gestures to run computers and household appliances? Now, global information technology giant Hewlett-Packard has named two Indian-Americans researching this technology as recipients of its innovation research award.
Neel Kashkari, who was the Senior Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson, was nominated by President Bush to the post of Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs and has been confirmed by the US Senate.
Kazmierczak shot dead five students, mostly women, and injured 23 others in Northern Illinois University before turning the weapon on himself on the Valentine's Day, but no Indian casualty has been reported. A senior Indian Embassy official told PTI that both the Mission in Washington and the Consulate in Chicago were following the tragic incident closely. "At this time, there have been no reports of any Indian students killed or seriously injured," the official said.
The cities of Champaign-Urbana presented Professor Pallassana R Balgopal, professor emeritus in social work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Award in the human rights category.
'I don't think the Indo-US relationship can be built on the principle that India is going to be, essentially, a piece of American strategy involving China,' feels foreign policy expert Rajan Menon.
Karan Gupta answers questions about immigration, visas and adjusting to life abroad.
Rajmohan also acknowledged that Gandhi was unsuccessful in his attempt to prevent the partition of India.
Overseas education counsellor Karan Gupta tackles these are other queries related to studying abroad.
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