Diwali to be school holiday in New York City

Diwali, the festival of lights, will now be enshrined as a school holiday in New York City, authorities announced here and described it as a victory for the city's residents, including the Indian......

Bill in US Cong to declare Diwali a national holiday

Led by Congresswoman Carolyn B Maloney from New York, lawmakers on Wednesday announced that a bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to declare Diwali, festival of lights, a......

IN PHOTOS: Capitol Hill celebrates its first-ever Diwali

The first-ever Congressional Diwali celebration on Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening was a spectacular event by any measure, with the House of Representatives Rayburn Building lobby overflowing with......

'My role is to make people's lives easier'

'I had the Indian American community fully supportive from day one when I ran and they said, Yes.''I ran again, I lost and they said, Yes.''I came back to them again, and they said, Yes, every......