Washington, March 6 (IANS) Kshama Sawant made history last month when Seattle adopted a resolution moved by her to ban caste-based discrimination, become the first US city to do so. She took and stared down critics like the Hindu American Foundation, a powerful advocacy group, and many Hindu Indian Americans who argue...
Pakistan and the US will start the all-important dialogue on counter-terrorism and intelligence sharing in Washington on Monday as both sides work towards resetting strained relationships. ...
Indian-American judge Tejal Mehta took oath as the first justice of Ayer District Court in the US state of Massachusetts....
In a statement, the Ministry on Sunday slammed the US Army general Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for making an unannounced visit to a base to meet US troops in northeastern Syria, Xinhua news agency reported....
Britain's first female Sikh MP Preet Kaur Gill has said she was forced to contact police after receiving a threatening email message saying: "watch your back"....
An Indian-American Sikh is undertaking a 2,700-mile motorcycle ride to mark the 11th anniversary of a 2012 attack on a Gurdwara in Wisconsin that left seven people from his community dead. ...
The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for nearly 90 per cent of all Covid-19 cases reported in the US, according to the latest estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...
A cancerous skin lesion had been removed from US President Joe Biden's chest, White House physician Kevin O'Connor said....
There have been at least 26 million illnesses, 290,000 hospitalisations, and 18,000 deaths from flu so far this season in the US, according to the latest estimates published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
Former US lawyer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and son....
