Indian goalkeeper Subrata Paul's four-day trial with Vancouver Whitecaps ended in disappointment with the Canadian football club deciding against offering him a contract.
Anamika Veeramani, 14, an eighth grader from Incarnate Word Academy in Parma Heights, Ohio won the National Spelling Bee on Friday.
The brilliant Looper is one for the ages.
A recent article in The Daily Beast has rated the 25 best places across the US on nine parameters of import to young grads.
In her fourth appearance at the annual spelling marathon, a supremely-confident Kavya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, breezed through to win the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee competition.
A Moroccan-origin US citizen has pleaded guilty before a US court to providing material support to the Al Qaeda, adding to the growing list of recent cases of naturalised American nationals involved in terror activities.
Sunil Chhetri did not play in Kansas City Wizards' second Major League Soccer match against Colorado Rapids but the Indian striker is expected to take the field in his side's qualification game for Lamar Hunt US Open Cup against the same opponents on Tuesday.
India international goalkeeper Subrata Paul will not be going for trials at Canadian football club Vancouver Whitecaps.
Indian striker Sunil Chhetri continued to sparkle for Kansas City Wizards, scoring a hat-trick in the Major League Soccer team's 5-0 win over the University of Evansville in a friendly match at St Louis, United States.
Sunil Chhetri scored on debut as Kansas City Wizards thrashed University of Tulsa 5-1 in a friendly match in Missouri, United States.
Mira Nair on helming the biopic on aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.
Suzlon Wind Energy, the North American subsidiary of India's Suzlon Energy Ltd, on Friday said it plans to generate 728 MW of clean power in the US in 2010 through nine wind farms.
The hacking of Google that emanated from China could be the work of amateurs and was not linked to the government of that country, according to a study by a by a US-based technology firm.
For over 25 years, Hindu organisations including temples across the United States have been offering free medical clinics several times a year, serving thousands of vegetarian meals once or twice a year and conducting a number of services helping all Americans. But in the last year or so, many have realised that such efforts have to be increased and made more visible so that other Indian organizations will come forward to do service, muses New Jersey-based Ved Chaudhary.
Currently, the company employs about 219,000 people worldwide.
The recession-hit American economy is slowly witnessing signs of stabilisation, with significant reduction in the pace of GDP contraction and job losses. Going by the latest Beige Book from the US Federal Reserve, economic activity in most of the districts in the country have either improved or stabilised.
Researchers at Kansas State University have found that employees who are engaged in their work, which includes higher levels of vigour, more dedication and absorption in day-to-day activities, have better moods and more satisfaction at home. For the study, the researchers tracked 67 extension agents for two-weeks to determine the relationship between daily work engagement and work-to-family facilitation.
Indian-American Raj Goyle has won a primary from Kansas State to bag Democratic Party's nomination for the November Congressional elections, becoming the latest candidate from the community to join the race for the House of Representatives.
Mark Muller, the owner of Max Motors near Kansas City that boasts the slogan 'God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks', says that he had been overwhelmed by the response.
Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor has arrived in Washington on a week-long visit to the United States, during which he is expected to hold discussions with top US military leadership on a wide range of bilateral issues, besides the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. General Kapoor is scheduled to meet Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, his counterpart in the US Army General George W Casey and Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
Indian-American Democrat Raj Goyle has announced that he would run for the United States House of Representatives next year.
Jack Kemp, a star football quarterback who became a congressman, US Cabinet secretary and Republican vice presidential nominee, died on Saturday at age 73. Kemp died of cancer at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, The New York Times said, quoting his son, Jimmy Kemp.
Sunil Chhetri on Friday became the first Indian footballer to join the United States Major League Soccer after he signed a formal contract with MLS side Kansas City Wizards at the club headquarters.
There are bits in the film that work, all the rest is just pedestrian fare.
Shobana Kubendran loves human genes -- understanding them, how they work, even how they carry disorders. And she loves the ability to talk and advise families on the potential medical problems that children can inherit from their parents or other family members.
India and Australia, whose main sporting rivalry is on the cricket pitch, switch codes to soccer at the Asian Cup on Monday with Australia the overwhelming favourites to hand out the equivalent of an innings victory.
Indian American Democrats running for US Congress, including the Top-Tier Red to Blue candidates, who were supported to the hilt by the Democratic establishment, were caught up in the Republican surge and drowned in the tsunami as the GOP took back the House of Representatives
The Indian American Leadership Initiative, founded by political activist Varun Nikore a decade ago to promote Indian-American participation in the mainstream political process and to support the community's candidates at the local, state and national levels, formally launched its political action committee on Capitol Hill in September-end.
With just over a month to go for the general election, the three top-tier Democratic Indian American candidates -- Manan Trivedi, Ami Bera and Raj Goyle -- have upped the ante against their Republican opponents with a chutzpah unprecedented in the annals of Indian-American Congressional campaigns.All three candidates are flush with campaign war chests in excess of $1 million and are strongly backed by the Democratic establishment.
Susi Ganesan's Tamil movie and its Telugu version Mallana starring Vikram and Shriya are going to be released simultaneously on the 21st August not only in India but throughout the world.
David Beckham is one of five players to make the Major League Soccer All-Stars for the first time after voting results were announced by the league on Thursday.
A Hanuman devotee plans to send a rare encyclopedia, articles and pictures of the Lord to Democratic party's presidential nominee Barack Obama, who keeps a Hanuman medallion among his good luck charms. Businessman Sunil Gomber would send an album of 'The visual encyclopedia of Lord Hanuman' along with 31 related articles and three rare laminated pictures to New York on Tuesday.
The support of the Indian Americans to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is steadily rising , thanks to his lucky charm Lord Hanuman, suggests a leading American daily.
Barack Obama, the Democratic party's presidential nominee, is seeking the blessings of Hindu God Hanuman in his battle for the White House.The 46-year-old senator from Illinois, who defeated his rival Hillary Clinton in an epic 17-month long electoral battle for Democratic party nomination, carries a 'tiny monkey God' apparently representing Hanuman with him for good luck.
The United States on Monday welcomed resumption of dialogue between China and representatives of the Dalai Lama and said the talks should address the Tibetan complaints about freedom of religion and cultural values. The Dalai Lama's envoys and representatives of China's government on Sunday met in Shenzen for the first time since the unrest erupted in Tibet in March. China did some tough talking, asking the Dalai Lama to make credible moves to stop violence.
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US Principal Deputy Solicitor General Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan on Wednesday moved a step closer to creating history, reports Aziz Haniffa.
If ever there was any doubt that during the past few years, Indian American kids have come to virtually own the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee competition, it was erased with a vengeance on Thursday morning when of the 11 championship finalists, seven or more than 60 percent were Indian Americans, belonging to a minority population that is less than one percent of the total US population.
As many as 14 of the 41 young spelling wizards -- who made it to the semi final of the Scripps national Spelling Bee champion's trophy -- are Indian Americans, raising expectations that the top prize would yet again be bagged by one of them.
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