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Thursday, July 31, 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

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.