The US is working to enhance partnerships with India's smaller cities and towns which are fast becoming the engines of the country's economic boom, a senior American official has said.

Community organisations draw up a demographic snapshot of America's fastest growing ethnic group. George Joseph reports

Sumona Vohra was determined to have the Bharata Natyam arangetram her injury and personal challenges had robbed her of.

Nearly 70 Indian students in the US continue to remain in limbo after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials raided the University of Northern Virginia and the Customs and Immigration Service subsequently rejected their transfer applications. Their attorney and counsel Sheela Murthy says that she has now advised them to file a class-action suit against the university.

United States President Barack Obama is leading by seven points against his possible Republican rival Mitt Romney in the key battle ground state of Virginia, a new poll has said.

More than two years after he gate crashed into the White House State Dinner hosted for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Tareq Salahi has announced his intent to run for governor of Virginia.

62-year-old Fai was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release by a court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, with three wins each in their kitty, were running almost neck to neck in Ohio on "Super Tuesday" wherein 10 States went into Republican presidential primary.

Even as he flirts with the idea of running for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Chopra has indicated that he will now campaign feverishly for the election of his former boss Kaine.

Satyendra Singh Huja, a Sikh American, has been unanimously elected as the mayor of Charlottesville, a historic city in Virginia.

62-year-old Fai, who last week in a US court pleaded guilty to the federal charges of being an ISI agent, said in a statement that meeting these Indian officials was part of his strategy to communicate with New Delhi.

In the first such known case in United States's history, an American citizen -- Srinagar-born, Kashmiri separatist leader Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai -- has admitted that he acted as an operative of the Inter Services Intelligence. Fai, 62, admitted to acting on the Pakistani spy agency's specific instructions and funneling thousands of dollars to try and influence US policy -- particularly through illegal lobbying in the US Congress -- towards Kashmir.

In a major embarrassment to the Inter-Services Intelligence, United States-based Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to federal charges of spying for the Pakistani spy agency and illegally lobbying the Congress to influence the American policy on Kashmir.

62-year-old Fai, who headed the Washington-based Kashmiri American Council (KAC) was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly collaborating with Pakistan's spy agency by "clandestinely" funnelling hundreds and thousands of dollars to change the view of American lawmakers on Kashmir.

On his maiden trip to India as the Deputy Secretary of State -- the most powerful position in the US State Department after the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton -- Burns visit is reflective of the high-level engagement between the two countries in the aftermath of the Bali meet between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama.

A young Pakistani national living in a suburb of Washington has pleaded guilty to providing material support to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba by making a propaganda video.

Us Senate India Caucus to urge President Obama to push for bilateral investment treaty with India; lawmakers hail Prime Minister's 'Brave Action' to open India to FDI in multi-brand retail sector.

Both Indians and Americans have to consider themselves fortunate and thankful to have a diplomat of the caliber of Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao posted in Washington and driving the burgeoning United States-India strategic partnership, a senior State Department official has said.

India is "a powerhouse" in today's world and indispensable to "the conduct of global affairs", believes Senator John F Kerry, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee and erstwhile Democratic presidential nominee in 2004.

Ambassador Rao says role of Indian American entrepreneurs take on new meaning; also acknowledges the contribution and inspiration of Nobel Laureate Hargobind Singh Khorana.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in opening the first-ever US-India Higher Education Summit at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, -- which she co-chaired with Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal -- declared that while collaboration in this sphere is a driving force in the strategic dialogue between Washington and New Delhi, whether it will ultimately succeed or not depends on those outside government -- academia, researchers, and business

Kapil Sibal, minister of human resources and development, said that US institutions that wish to come to India should be accredited institutions and should have been in the business for 20 years. Aziz Haniffa reports.

US Senator Mark Warner, co-chair of the Senate India Caucus, while lauding the burgeoning Indian investment in the US, has urged Indian companies to also explore making such investments in the American heartland instead of the traditional areas in order to change misperceptions on globalisation.

Much before the Tri-Valley University scam that affected many Indians was exposed in the United States, the American Consulate in Mumbai had expressed concern over the steep jump in lesser qualified student visa applications, a leaked US diplomatic cable has said.

Hospitals and nursing homes in the United States East Coast's low-lying areas were evacuated on Friday as the hurricane 'Irene' continued on its way to the region inhabited by about 65 million people.

The strongest quake to strike eastern America in more than a century rattled offices in the United States' capital. Authorities evacuated buildings as far as New York and shut down two nuclear power plants.

A major earthquake measuring about 6.0 rattled offices on Tuesday in the US capital Washington and led to panicked evacuations at the Indian embassy and in as far away as New York.

A senior official in the Barack Obama administration has said that all contentious issues, including concern that Indian students are being duped by sham universities and colleges that have questionable credentials, would be on the table during the major United States-India Education Summit in October.

The case of Kashmiri separatist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of being an undeclared agent of Pakistani spy agency Inter Services Intelligence in the United States, has been referred to a grand jury which will determine if there is enough evidence for a trial.

The case of Kashmiri separatist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of being an undeclared agent of Pakistani spy agency Inter Services Intelligence in the United States, has been referred to a grand jury which will determine if there is enough evidence for a trial.

About 70 Indian students at the University of Northern Virginia, which was raided last month by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcementthe investigative arm of the department of homeland securitymet with Ambassador Arun Kumar Singh, Charge d'Affaires at the Indian embassy in Washington D C who assured them that the government of India and the embassy will "continue with their efforts to try and ensure that the students at UNVA are not victimised in any way."

Earlier on January 19, American federal agents had raided the Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, California, and shut it down for misusing visa permits, laundering money and for other crimes.

Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has been accused of being an Inter Services Intelligence agent and funneling its money into the United States to influence American lawmakers on Kashmir, has admitted to taking money from Pakistan's spy agency. During his detention hearing at the US district court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, the prosecution said that Fai, the head of Kashmiri American Council, had admitted to receiving funds from the ISI.

Kashmir-born US citizen, Fai, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week on charges of working for the Government of Pakistan, in particular its spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), to lobby at the Capitol Hill and the Administration on Kashmir.

The Pakistani government has lodged a protest with the United States over the arrest of Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai and accused Washington of running a "slander campaign" against Islamabad.

Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence spent $4 million over two decades in a covert attempt to influence United States policy over the Kashmir issue, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has claimed.

Ranvir Trehan is finally relaxed but still caught up in the euphoria over the Maximum India festival's massive success. For the last two years, the leading technology entrepreneur and philanthropist, helped put together the festival at the Kennedy Center as both a major benefactor.

A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, from the United States.

A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, from the United States.

The United States immigration authorities on Wednesday asked the 1,555 students of the California-based Tri Valley University, which has been shut down on charges of visa fraud affecting hundreds of Indians, to contact them directly to find out the options they have to pursue their studies in this country.