Indiana Pacers coach Nate McMillan has said US President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign slogan 'Make America Great Again' rings hollow because the country has never been 'great' for its Black citizens. McMillan's comments come in the wake of weeks of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Sixteen NBA players tested positive for COVID-19, the league said on Friday, a little over a month before the 2020 season is set to resume in Florida on the same day the state reported a record of almost 9,000 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours.
Lobbying on the Hill is time consuming and cumbersome, but very effective to influence US government policies, asserts Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, deputy chief of mission at the Indian embassy in Washington, DC after the 1998 nuclear tests and during the Kargil War.
Biden has urged the Senate not to act on the vacancy until the American people select their next president and the next Congress.
IndyCar will open its delayed season on June 6 in Texas without fans in attendance and with strict guidelines to protect the participants amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it said on Thursday. IndyCar, which postponed racing in mid-March over concerns about the novel coronavirus, said the Genesys 300 at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) will now be a one-day event that includes practice, qualifying and the race.
'I would urge my Indian friends to look at how significant the overall support was.'
SEWA International, a leading Indian-American non-profit organisation, has so far raised more than $250,000 for its COVID-19 relief efforts. It is using the money to buy personal protective equipment's, in particular facial masks and surgical masks, to donate free to the local law enforcement officials and hospitals in some of the hot spot areas like New York, who have run out of these essential items.
Filmmaker S S Rajamouli had been searching for a Caucasian, preferably British, actress to play a key role in his Ramcharan Teja-NTR Jr-starrer, RRR.
Women's NBA legend Ebony Hoffman said the National Basketball Association (NBA) is coming to India with the intention of popularising the sport.
Experts said this would not only reduce Infosys' dependence on the H1B visa, which has seen increased restrictions under the current US administration. It will also help the company in building an employee pyramid for its future operations.
Drake lends $185 million jet to Sacramento Kings for India trip
The NBA sides Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers will play two pre-season games on October 4 and 5 in front of students under the Reliance Foundation Jr NBA programme.
As per the schedule released by the White House on late Saturday night, Trump will spend 100 minutes at the NRG Stadium.
'I am pleased to announce that I have chose Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate,' Donald Trump wrote on his Twitter handle.
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is likely to pick Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, media reports said on Thursday.
The Pacers had eked out a 132-131 victory against the Kings on Friday, but on Saturday it was altogether a different ball game and the Pacers had a comfortable outing
It was NBA's first pre-season game ahead of the upcoming season.
'From India to Indiana, there has always been a sense of hope, optimism, and goodness.'
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The Union Health ministry put the number of positive cases at 82, eight more since Thursday night, which includes the woman and a 76-year-old man from Karnataka who became the country's first coronavirus fatality besides 17 foreign nationals, Health Ministry officials said.
Lingala, 55, who has been charged by criminal complaint with one count of murder-for-hire was produced before United States Magistrate Judge Michael A. Hammer in Newark federal court and was held without bail.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
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Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings will play two preseason games in Mumbai next year, the first National Basketball Association games to take place in India, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on Thursday.
'I never imagined that there would come a day when the NBA game would be seen and heard by Indian fans in their own language.'
Donald Trump virtually sealed his Republican nomination for the United States presidential polls on Tuesday night after he scored a major win at the Indiana primary and his nearest rival Texas Senator Ted Cruz bowed out of the race.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The fact is that some of the 999 championship races thus far have been questionable Grands Prix and several past race winners never even drove a Formula One car.
Anirban Lahiri shot seven-under 65 to rise to the second place at the halfway stage of the Hotel Fitness Championships, the first of the four Web.com Tour Finals series in Fort Wayne on Friday.
According to political pundits, the Democrats have a good chance of winning the House, while the Republicans are likely to retain the Senate.
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Through a series of tweets and pictures, Trump showed he was working hard while the opposition Democratic lawmakers were in their homes celebrating Christmas.
A group of concerned individuals as the India Pride Project and the support of one man dubbed America's Indiana Jones has resulted in the return of India's heritage back to the country, says Vijay Kumar.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Infosys, like many of its peers, has been ramping local hiring in key markets like the US, the UK and Australia to tackle increasing scrutiny around work visas by various governments.
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