SEAL BEACH, CA- An Indian-American father and his three-year-old son were killed after a crash on the 405 Freeway near here, which prompted the closure of several lanes and led to major morning traffic congestion on June 15. His wife and daughter are in critical condition, according to media reports. Friends of the Katara family have set up a GoFundMe account to help with funeral and medical expenses. 

Producer Preeti Thaker has bagged a role in the upcoming Hollywood comedy “What Men Want”, which is inspired by the 2000 film “What Women Want”. Preeti will be acting alongside actors Tracy Morgan and Taraji P. Henson in the film, to be helmed by Adam Shankman. “I’m excited about this film. This will be my debut in acting and that too a Hollywood film. I think it’s a big achievement and I am working really hard for this. 

LONDON - Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi, along with the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery will launch a report by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) aimed at eliminating forced labour, human trafficking, modern slavery and child labour. "This is one of a series of five public events relating to key themes of human rights and good governance that CHRI is running on the sidelines...

MUMBAI- A Mumbai-based businessman was arrested after a leading actress of yesteryears, Zeenat Aman, lodged a complaint accusing him of rape, cheating and forgery, a top police officer said here on March 23. “The complaint was lodged by the victim on March 22 with Juhu Police Station and the accused has been arrested,” Mumbai Police spokesperson Deepak Deoraj said. Deoraj said the case had been transferred to the Crime Branch for...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Directors Maclain and Chapman Way have co-created `Wild Wild Country’ a  riveting six-part docuseries that recounts the amazing true story of a fallen religious movement started by Indian guru Bhagwan Rajneesh. The series debuted on Netflix on March 16. According to a press release, on a quiet day in 1981, disciples of an the obscenely wealthy guru named Bhagwan Rajneesh, also knows as Osho, 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Two Indian Americans have emerged as  nominees in the annual San Francisco Chronicle Visionary of the Year award. Khan Academy founder Sal Khan joins Kiva co-founder Premal Shah among the 2018 Visionary of the Year award nominees. Khan started the Mountain View, California based Khan Academy in 2005 to help his cousins in math, and the concept expanded immensely to serve 15 million people a month. 

NEW YORK, NY – Indian-American finance professor Rangarajan Sundaram is the new Dean of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. NYU president Andrew Hamilton and provost Katherine Fleming made the announcement on Dec 20 in a press statement. Sundaram, who joined Stern’s faculty a little more than two decades ago, began serving as dean on Jan 1. He succeeds Peter Henry, who held the deanship since...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook owes Indian-origin engineer Vastal Mehta a lot for its success in generating billions of dollars in ad revenues every year as he steers the team that works with advertisers to build the technology and infrastructure needed to run more effective campaigns on the platform. When he started out on this in 2010, Mehta was the lone engineer in the team and now serves as Facebook's Director of Solutions Engineering and...

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LOS ANGELES, CA - Imagine a dance fitness workout that includes high beats of Bollywood hits and thorough whole-body exercise! Who wouldn’t want that? Yes, now staying fit is that easy with BollyX, a dance form manifested by five original founders, who used their various expertise and fitness backgrounds to build the dynamic platform...