Next month, the much awaited 19th edition of the festival will open North America’s first-ever global film market for Indian filmmakers. The much awaited Tasveer Film Festival & Market (TFFM) is set to take place next month. The film “Wakhri,” directed by Iram Parveen Bilal and centered around a Pakistani widow who becomes an overnight […]
From September 21 to 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in the US for the fourth Quad Leaders’ Summit. In addition, the prime minister will speak at a gathering held in New York during the UN General Assembly. PM Modi is scheduled to attend the Quad meeting in Wilmington, Delaware, which is being hosted […]
As the nation’s elections take place that will determine AI regulations, OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has appointed Pragya Misra as the head of government relations, marking the hiring of its first employee in India, according to Bloomberg. According to a Bloomberg report, a company backed by Microsoft Corporation has appointed Pragya Misra to […]
She was an associate counsel in the Obama White House before becoming vice president and general counsel for the company’s Defence, Space, and Security division. As of April 1, Uma Amuluru, a former Obama White House Counsel, will serve as both the Chief Human Resources Officer and executive vice president of Boeing, the company announced […]
The winners receive $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research. Ten Indian American early-career scholars are among this year’s Sloan Research Fellows. The 126 Fellows from the 2024 cohort are “drawn from a diverse range of 53 institutions across the U.S. and Canada, including large public […]
The American Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (AGPC) and the Sikh Coordination Committee East Coast (SCCEC) are two Sikh organisations that are actively supporting the current farmers’ protest in India. They support paying farmers a fair price, legalising the Minimum Support Price (MSP), and holding those responsible for injustices—such as the Lakhimpur Kheri incident—accountable. Their unity highlights […]
The 37-year-old Indian American who has represented eastern Loudoun in the House of Delegates for the past four years says he is eager to address political dysfunction and extremism. Suhas Subramanyam, a Virginia Delegate and state Senator-elect, is running for U.S. Congress from Virginia’s 10th Congressional District to replace Rep. Jennifer Wexton, who will retire […]
She is a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal and has done groundbreaking legal work on free speech, censorship, and the right to boycott. Radhika Sainath has seen an exponential increase in requests for legal assistance since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Over 400 calls have been received by Palestine Legal, an advocacy […]
The prime minister recalled his visit to the BAPS Mandir in Wellington and expressed his best wishes for the new mandir’s construction. On the occasion of BAPS leader Mahant Swami Maharaj’s 90th birth anniversary, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins paid a visit to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) in Auckland. The Prime […]
Since being selected as a Rhodes Scholar in 1989, which was a life-changing event for me, I have been deeply involved with the Rhodes Scholarships. The Rhodes Trust’s slogan, ‘Fighting the World’s Fights,’ exemplifies the unique mission and powerful set of values shared by Rhodes Scholars. In 2022, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the […]
