WASHINGTON - US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has called for allocating a large federal investment to improve teacher salaries nationwide. "I'm declaring to you that by the end of my first term, we will have improved teachers' salaries so that we close the pay gap," CNN quoted the California Democrat as saying on Saturday in Houston to a group of supporters. 

WASHINGTON - Four Indian American teenagers have been awarded $25,000 each for developing innovative approaches to address environmental issues. The recipients of the award are Anjali Chadha (16) of Kentucky, Preeti Sai Krishnamani (17) of Delaware, Navami Jain (17) of North Carolina and Sai Preethi Mamidala (17) of Pennsylvania, the American Bazaar daily reported. Chadha has built a device that is a sensor for...

NEW YORK - The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of a controversial Indian American jurist, Neomi Rao, to an important judgeship that was vacated by an appointee to the Supreme Court. Her confirmation on Wednesday came after days of opposition from both liberals and the hard right over her writings as an undergraduate and her perceived lukewarm stand on legal abortion.

NEW YORK - US intelligence agents laid a cyber trail all the way to a fake terror camp in Pakistan, mastered idioms and style of Islamic terrorists giving a convincing portrayal of jihadis in a bid to infiltrate a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) recruitment ring. In what seemed to read like a spy-thriller their strategy led to the arrest of an American teenager, who was at the centre of an alleged conspiracy to recruit fighters for the Pakistan-based LeT, 

EDISON,NJ – Kim Kumari was crowned Miss India USA, while Vidhi Dave was Mrs. India USA and Esha Kode Miss Teen India USA, at the annual pageant held recently at Fords, New Jersey. Kumari, 18, is from New Jersey and is planning to be an optometrist and help Third World nation children learn about the importance of eye care.Kim also got the Best Talent Award for her performance of Lavni, 

NEW YORK - Global auction house Sotheby's on Thursday announced the details of its upcoming Asia Week sale series here, comprising eight auctions featuring a group of over 1,150 lots spanning centuries of artistic production. The wide range of Asian Art will be under the hammer for prices from $500 dollars to over $1 million dollars and range from contemporary to ancient in date, Sotheby's said in a statement.

WASHINGTON - An Indian-American teenager has been conferred with the 2019 National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education Award for her ground-breaking invention designed to improve treatments for glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer. The $10,000 award given by STEM Education US, recognises Kavya Kopparapu, 19, of Herndon, Virginia, as an "extraordinarily talented and...

WASHINGTON - Sini Mathews, the adoptive mother of three-year-old Indian girl Sherin Mathews who was found dead in a ditch in Texas in 2017, has been released from jail after the child endangerment charges filed against her were dismissed due to insufficient evidence. The Dallas County District Attorney's office said in a news release on Friday that prosecutors could not make a case against Sini Mathews - but left open the possibility of refilling...

...NEW YORK - Members of the Indian community have held protests outside the Pakistani consulates in New York and Chicago to condemn the February 14 Pulwama attack that claimed the lives of 40 CRPF troopers. In New York on Friday, the police stopped 400 protesters from approaching the consulate building and cordoned them off next to Central Park, across the avenue. They protested peacefully for over two hours shouting...