Your Gateway to Indian Americans, One Story at a Time
Jigar H. Shah, an Indian American serial entrepreneur, investor and energy strategist, has received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Read More
Indian American Arizona state Senator Priya Sundareshan has been nominated for the prestigious Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award by EMILYs List, recognising her bold leadership on issues like voting rights, environmental protection, and reproductive rights. Read More
People’s Light, one of Pennsylvania’s most accomplished professional non-profit theatres, has appointed Indian American Shonali Burke as its new Managing Director effective June 1, 2025.Read More
Indian American physician Sion Roy is running for California state Senate in District 24 representing West Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Roy, a cardiologist and vice chair of the Santa Monica College Board, hopes to replace Read More
Divya Tyagi, an Indian American engineering student at Penn State University, has refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, moving a step forward in improving wind energy production and reducing costs. Read More
Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, described as one of India most illustrious daughters by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, finally returned to earth after an extended 286-day space odyssey. Read More
Six Democratic physician members of Congress are forming the Congressional Doctors Caucus, a group aimed at addressing a variety of healthcare concerns from potential Medicaid cuts to the reduction in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Read More
Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a lender, consultant, and advocate for community organizations, has appointed Indian American executive Bhavani Daryanani as Chief Financial Officer after serving as interim CFO for three months. She will oversee NFF’Read More
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has named Indian American special agent Shohini Sinha as the assistant director of the Victim Services Division. Sinha most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Salt Read More
Amandeep Singh, an Indian American construction executive accused of killing two teenage tennis prodigies in a wrong-way, drunk-driving crash in Nassau County, New York, in 2023, has been sentenced to 8⅓ to 25 years in prison. Read More