State senate refers bill acknowledging Diwali as a significant cultural and spiritual occasion to select committee for reviewRead More
M. Hasna Maznavi, one of the co-founders of the Women’s Mosque of America in Los Angeles, led by women, for women and only open to women died April 2 from complications related to Type 1 diabetes. Read More
The India Philanthropy Alliance (IPA) has announced its 6th Annual Youth Essay Competition on the theme, #FutureByYou, emphasizing youth agency and empowerment in building a better tomorrow for the world, and for India in particular. Read More
Father Raj "Arul" Balaswamy Carasala, a longtime Indian American Catholic priest in Kansas, was fatally shot Thursday in Seneca, Kansas in what was called a “senseless act of violence.” Read More
Two Indian American professors — Gita Johar of Columbia University and Priya Raghubir of New York University— have been awarded Society for Consumer Psychology’s 2025 Fellow Award, its highest honor. The award recognizes seasoned scholars who Read More
Five Indian Americans have made it to City & State magazine’s prestigious 2025 Queens Power 100 considered the VIPs of “The World’s Borough.” Featured among “the current Queens leaders who keep the borough on the move” Read More
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kolkata-born Stanford University professor Jayanta ‘Jay’ Bhattacharya, a leading Covid lockdown sceptic to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read More
Danica Bajaj, an Indian American undergraduate Young Trustee finalist at Duke University, hopes to promote institutional equity and accessibility, driven by her passion to build connections with people from diverse backgrounds. Read More
Spark, an app based tool which promises to revolutionize support for autistic children, founded by Nandana Menon, an Indian American high school senior, has won the South by South west (SXSW) EDU Expo’s prestigious Read More
Indian American Impact Fund has endorsed seven South Asian candidates, “committed to making a tangible difference in their communities,” for the 2025 election cycle, including five Indian Americans, a Pakistani American and a Bangladeshi American. Read More