NRI Achievers

The 15-year-old Indian origin girl will be one among attendees for the President Donald Trump’s state of the Union address in Washington on Tuesday. Kerala-origin Uma Menon, a student of Winter Park High School, Florida, will be one among the audience when Trump delivers his speech before a joint session...

An Indian-American woman lawyer on Thursday was appointed as a Commissioner to the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Arunima Bhargava, a civil rights lawyer is born and raised in Chicago and is currently the founder and president of the Anthem of Us, which describes itself as "a...

Nearly two dozen Indian descent young students were among 161 who were acknowledged and honored for the United States Presidential Scholars Program by the U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this month at the White House, Washington, D.C. The students were honored as nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Mihir...

Native Indian US Senator Kamala Harris has motivated, Indian-American government officials to talk reality and join the "aggregate battle" against fanaticism, contempt and the developing hostile to foreigner assessment in America. Tending to a special social event of more than 200 Indian-American competitors, chose authorities, altruists, network pioneers and other...

Amit Jani, president and cofounder of the N.J. Leadership Program was recognized for his contribution to the Indian-American community’s political involvement at GOPIO Central Jersey’s 10th Anniversary Gala Community Recognition & Awards Banquet at Ember Restaurant in South Brunswick, N.J., June 3. Jani was among eight honored for their contribution...

The king of Malaysia has authorized the appointment of an ethnic Indian lawyer as the new attorney general, amid protests from Islamic groups that the job must be held by a Muslim. A palace statement says Sultan Muhammad V has approved terminating current Attorney General Mohamad Apandi Aliand replacing him...

Dr. Vanila M. Singh, the Indian American Chief Medical Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Singh graduated with a B.S. in molecular and cell biology and economics from the University of California at Berkeley as well as her medical degree from the George Washington University...

Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science has got a $500,000 blessing from the Gangal family, an Indian American family whose philanthropic establishment to set up an invested grant subsidize for designing graduate understudies with an accentuation on bioengineering research, will bolster skilled understudies as they get...

Mohammed Nadeem, a popular Indian American professor at National University in San Jose, California, has decided to step up and run for a council seat in Santa Clara that has been vacant since the resignation of Dominic Caserta, according to a Mercury News report. To fill the position, Nadeem...

Barron's, an American weekly newspaper has rolled up their annual list of the world's Best Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in which HDFC's Managing Director, Aditya Puri has made to the list for the consecutive fourth time. This year, Barron's cleaved CEOs into three groups: Visionary Founders, Growth Leaders and Turnaround Experts. One...