Nithya Raman’s performance in the LA mayor primary revives ‘election fraud’ claims from Donald Trump and Elon Musk. As Indian-origin Nithya Raman edged ahead and is now locked in a tight race with Republican candidate Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayor primary, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk revived their election fraud claims. In […]
Sriram Krishnan, the Indian-American technology executive serving as Senior White House Policy Adviser on Artificial Intelligence, is set to leave his position at the end of June 2026 after an 18-month tenure in the Trump administration.Krishnani is a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist and product leader at companies including Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. He […]
Indian-origin man Lovepreet Singh posted a video of how a woman in Canada asked him to ‘go back to India’. A video of an Indian-origin man strongly resisting a racist attack from a woman in Canada’s Nova Scotia has been going viral. The woman who was driving a car asked the man who was recording […]
Dave Fiji and Jesni Fiji had an accident moments after their marriage in Atlanta A newlywed pilot who was killed in a helicopter crash moments after leaving his wedding reception was already concerned about the foggy weather and low visibility before take-off, according to his father.25-year-old Dave Fiji was among three people travelling in a […]
Avani Ahuja (right) receives the Henry Ford II Scholar Award. Indian-origin MIT graduate Avani Ahuja has received the prestigious Henry Ford II Scholar Award. The honour is among the institute’s top recognitions for undergraduate engineering students and celebrates academic excellence, leadership and future promise. During her time at MIT Ahuja conducted research in power electronics, […]
Rupert Lowe (left) and Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (right) Indian-origin Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi has hit back at Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe after he called for a ban on carrying the Sikh ceremonial kirpan in public spaces following the murder of British-Polish teenager Henry Nowak.Dhesi, the Labour MP for Slough and one of Britain’s […]
Dave Fiji, an Indian-origin pilot with Delta Air Lines, was killed in a helicopter crash in Georgia, United States, hours after marrying his long-time partner, Jesni.The couple boarded a Robinson R66 helicopter following their wedding ceremony in Dawsonville on Friday night. The aircraft was scheduled to fly to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport as part of a post-wedding […]
Indian-origin immigration attorney objects to the use of the word ‘alien’ for non-US citizens and asks whether Melania Trump is also an alien. Indian-origin immigration attorney Rahul Reddy opposed the official use of the word ‘alien’ in American parlance to refer to non-US citizens and said that though the word is legal, it is dehumanizing […]
Indian-origin woman from California met a catastrophic accident during her birthday trip to Mexico earlier this month. Nina Bakhshi, an Indian-origin Californian makeup artist, had the most harrowing birthday trip this year as she chose a guided ATV (all-terrain vehicle) tour of Cenote La Noria in Mexico, where she fell from a bridge and suffered […]
Indian-origin teenager Shrey Parikh has achieved what millions of young spellers dream of. The 14-year-old from Rancho Cucamonga, California, won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 28 at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. He defeated runner-up Ishaan Gupta in a dramatic spell-off finale. During the tie-breaker, Parikh correctly spelled 32 words in […]
