Washington: A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to 100 years of hard labour for killing a 5-year-old Indian-origin girl in the US State of Louisiana in 2021. Following his conviction in January, Joseph Lee Smith from Shreveport was sentenced for killing Mya Patel, a 5-year-old girl. The incident took place when Mya Patel was playing…
Two decades of 9/11
September 20, 2021By Gouri Satya, Sr. Journalist It has been 20 years since the World Trade Centre’s (WTC) iconic twin towers were destroyed by terrorists in New York, US, on September 11, 2001 killing almost 3,000 people and causing injuries to more than 6,000 others. Those on board of the two aircraft which crashed into the two…
Afghanistan: A country where anarchy is for ever !
August 19, 2021Afghanistan was waiting to be taken over by the Taliban ever since the former US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw its troops. Trump’s successor Joe Biden simply endorsed the decision and implemented the pull-out of US forces. The only safeguard against the Taliban for the Afghan Government headed by Ashraf Ghani was gone. President…
Saluting United States on its Independence Day
July 4, 2021By Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy Fourth of July is celebrated with great pomp, gaiety and fanfare with bands, picnics, meetings, concerts and fireworks throughout the United States of America. It was on this day in 1767 the Founding-Fathers at the meeting of the continental Congress in Philadelphia proclaimed the “Declaration of Independence”. But it took…
Kodagu-born scientist leads path-breaking research in US
April 15, 2021Develops ‘brain glue’ to help people recover from traumatic brain injuries Mysore/Mysuru: Kodagu-born scientist now based in the US Ballachanda Dr. Lohitash Karumbaiah and his team have developed a ‘brain glue’ to help people with traumatic brain injuries. The team found that their brain glue — an experimental hydrogel technology — helped prevent long-term damage…
Air India to commence non-stop flights from Bengaluru to San Francisco and Hyderabad to Chicago
January 5, 2021Bengaluru: Air India set to commence Non stop flights from Bengaluru to San Francisco and Hyderabad to Chicago Air India is set to spread its wings further in the United States with the commencement of its first-ever non-stop service between Bengaluru and San Francisco and between Hyderabad and Chicago from Jan. 9 and Jan. 13…
Joe elected as US President, Kamala VP
November 8, 2020Washington: Democrat Joe Biden has been chosen as the 46th President of the United States of America, after defeating President and Republican Donald Trump in a closed US Presidential polls. Biden said he was humbled by the trust America had placed in him and reached out to those Americans who did not vote for him….
City-educated IT executive arrested in US for Coronavirus relief fraud
July 26, 2020He studied Computer Science in University of Mysore Bengaluru: Mukund Mohan, who studied Computer Science in the University of Mysore and rose to be Director of Engineering at Microsoft in the US and who later turned into an entrepreneur and a start-up visionary, was arrested and charged by the US Attorney’s Office with fraudulently applying…
US revokes Student Visa Rule after legal challenge by top Universities
July 15, 2020New York: The United States Government rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due to Coronavirus, a Federal Judge said yesterday. The Universities of Harvard and MIT, with the support of a number of other institutions, had taken legal action against the move that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
US new visa rules for foreign students to hit Indians badly
July 8, 2020New York: In a move that will adversely impact hundreds of thousands of Indian students, the US immigration authority has announced that foreign students will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their Universities switch to online-only classes in this fall semester due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
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