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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicIndian-Americans

Topic: Indian-Americans

Indian-American student banned from MIT graduation ceremony after pro-Palestinian speech

Megha Vemuri is the latest in the list of students to face discipline for protesting the war in Gaza and criticising her university’s ties to Israel.

Indian national pleads guilty to immigration fraud in New York, US

Rambhai Patel, 37, staged nine robberies at convenience stores and restaurants across different American states to help individuals fraudulently obtain US immigration benefits.

US Senate confirms Indian-origin Jay Bhattacharya as Director of National Institutes of Health

Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford School of Medicine, co-authored 'the Great Barrington Declaration', an alternative to lockdowns proposed in October 2020.

Indian Americans broadly supportive of Biden’s India policy, but nervous about Trump—Carnegie study

Only half the respondents surveyed were aware that the US accused the Indian government of orchestrating a plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader on American soil.

Indian Americans hesitant to vote for Harris, ‘don’t know her well’, says Democratic community leader

Senior Indian American leader Swadesh Chatterjee said that Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has not built a base among the diaspora in her previous roles as Senator, Attorney General.

19 percentage point decline in Indian-American support for Biden in upcoming US presidential polls

The bi-annual Asian American Voter Survey (AAVS) reveals that 46 percent of Indian Americans intend to vote for Biden this year as against 65 percent in 2020.

Voters in Ayodhya have shown what it means to be Hindu. Indian-Americans must learn

Hindutva groups have entrenched themselves in a network of hate in the West. The 2024 general election results can change that.

New York now has a Ganesh Temple Street and Guru Nanak Way. The big Apple is South Asia-fied

A street name can’t save a neighbourhood. It is an acknowledgment that we have worked and lived in a place for a long time.

Indian American parents have a new task. Teach kids to recognise Hinduphobia, fight it

There's an existential turning point coming at the prosperous but clueless Hindu-American community. If we don’t have our own story to convey to our children we'll be silenced by stories of others.

Indian-origin couple, daughter found dead in their US mansion, domestic violence suspected

The bodies of Rakesh Kamal, 57, his wife, Teena, 54, and their 18-year-old daughter, Ariana, were found in their Dover mansion. The district attorney said a gun was found near the husband’s body.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?