Trump Hosted Party with Epstein as Sole Guest: New York Times
Former President Donald Trump once hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago where Jeffrey Epstein was the only other guest among a…
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Justice Jackson Slams Supreme Court Ruling on Vehicle Emissions as Favoring Big Business
In a strongly worded dissent, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voiced serious concerns about the direction of the court…
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India has come a long way since its independence in 1947 from colonial British rule, after centuries of exploitation by…
A New Chapter in Russia-India Relations: PM Modi’s Moscow Visit and Its Strategic Implications
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Moscow marks a significant moment in the long-standing relationship between Russia and India. This…
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As India is celebrating its 76th Independence Day on August 15, 2024, it is time to reflect how far the vibrant…
Modi’s BJP Falls Short of Winning Majority in India’s Parliamentary Elections
After all the media hype of a Modi wave, and alleged abuse of government agencies to silence and intimidate political…
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The people of the world need to seize the moment and bring about a democratic global revolution. It is time…
The U.S.-India Health-Care Partnership Will Be Crucial In The Battle Against The Coronavirus
As both India and the United States combat a pandemic of unprecedented scale, we have drawn upon the strength of…
Joe Biden’s Agenda for the Indian American Community
As Senator, as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as Vice President, Joe Biden has supported Indian Americans…
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As we move closer to celebrate the 75 years of our independence, our motto should be — perform or perish….
India is a constructive, dependable actor globally, writes Harsh Vardhan Shringla
Covid-19 continues to exact a heavy toll worldwide. In India too, positive cases are rising. However, our effective domestic response…
While USA Is Abandoning WHO!
Most of the underdeveloped countries were shocked about President’s sudden announcement that the United States is leaving and discontinuing its…
Christmas is HOPE
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Modi Leads BJP To A Landslide Win In Indian Election
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party won a landslide victory in the world’s largest election as voters…
BJP Overseas Supporters Celebrate Party’s Win
After a four-month campaign from 12,000 kilometres away for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Overseas Friends of BJP-USA, known as…
How Narendra Modi Seduced India With Envy and Hate The prime minister has won re-election on a tide of violence, fake news and resentment.
Before dawn on Feb. 26, Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister of India, ordered an aerial attack on the…
Brexit brings down Prime Minister Theresa May
British PM Theresa May has confirmed the inevitable: She will step down soon. After a series of setbacks, which saw…
Key facts about Asian origin groups in the U.S.
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing major racial or ethnic group in the United States. More than 20 million Asians live in the…
Vision-Aid’s Revathy Ramakrishna is Woman of the Year 2019
Revathy Ramakrishna, who was bestowed Woman of the Year Award 2019 by an independent panel of nine judges, said that…
One million species threatened with extinction because of humans
One million of the planet’s eight million species are threatened with extinction by humans, scientists warned Monday in what is…
India wins global support in naming Masood Azhar’s terror tag
Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar was on Wednesday designated a global terrorist by the UN after China withdrew its…
The 10 Happiest Countries in the World
Happiness, unlike cost of living or exchange rates, is a difficult thing to measure, but one initiative at the United Nations thinks it…
MTA Votes to Increase Fares
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board voted on February 27, 2019 to increase fares and tolls. The new tolls take…
A Better World With Hope For Future Generations
Our world that we have inherited is a beautiful place. Nature, in its abundance has bestowed on us numerous blessings….
Why we American immigrants should vote – By Dr. Mathew Joys and Anil Augustine
It’s so relieving that in the US there are only two political parties with real federal representation, although independent candidacy…
Voter suppression: Republicans are engaged in an aggressive effort to prevent Americans from voting
With less than a week to go to mid term polls, Republican party and its candidates and state run governments…
The Guardian view on Modi’s mistakes: the high costs of India’s demonetisation
India’s prime minister ought to own up to the mistakes of his own policies which have cost lives, jobs and…
India at 72
Celebrating India’s 72nd Independence Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on where India is today. There are many achievements the…
Political role for priests ripe for debate: Could the church in the future be headed by a council rather than an absolute ruler?
A recent letter from Indian Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi calling for a prayer campaign ahead of national elections next…
Global perception of India has taken a beating
For a decade and a half now I’ve been a tireless advocate of India’s soft power, arguing that in the…
Mystic Mantra: Hope of the hopeless world
The belief in Jesus’ resurrection actually changed that defeat, that darkness and hopelessness into a new Hope. We have been…
Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible
Giant corporations are raking in record profits, while millions of Americans remain scarred by the Great Recession and a recovery…
Woman Empowerment……the need of the hour
I had the honor of representing India at the prestigious World Summit for Entrepreneurs held in Washington DC. In fact,…
Omar Vaid vying for a Congressional seat in New York
Omar Vaid, the son of immigrant parents of Gujarati Indian heritage, growing up Muslim in Illinois and Florida, embraced his…
Narendra Modi’s leadership is an impediment to US-India relations and a drain on India’s standing in the world
By Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations Washington DC, June 25, 2017. India achieved tremendous progress from 2004 to 2014 under…
Congress needs a winning strategy: Will the ‘Captain Model’ succeed?
Amid the talk of the Modi Tsunami in Uttar Pradesh, the election victory by Congress Party in Punjab hasn’t received…
Congrats To Trump For Excellent Speech, God Bless America!
(Editorial Note: “Where is the Capital of United States of America?” I remember asking this question, to kids and friends,…
U.S. Election: It was mostly about ‘the forgotten man’
By George Abraham A pre-election poll suggested that 72% of the people who surveyed had the opinion that the country…
Trump Triumps in US
Man proposes, God disposes! Triumph of Donald Trump, 70 years young, but oldest ever to become US president, is proof…
Hartals in Kerala: a shameful exercise in futility
By George Abraham Perspective of a Non-resident Keralite It was supposed to be just another ordinary day in the life…
Politics and Corruption
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Little Hope In An Unequal World
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BJP, Dalits, and the ‘Cow politics.’
George Abraham “In these four years, I also saw with, some disquiet, forces of divisiveness and intolerance trying to raise…
The UN Human Rights Council adopts the Declaration on the Right to Peace
The Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations in Geneva adopted a Declaration on the Right to Peace by…
Children of a Lesser God: Human Trafficking Soars in India
Sunita Pal, a frail 17-year-old, lies in a tiny bed in the women’s ward of New Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia…
Freida Pinto, Michelle Obama join hands for ‘Let Girls Learn’ initiative
Actress Freida Pinto has joined hands with the Michelle Obama, the First Lady for Let Girls Learn – a government…
Human Rights Abuses: a recurring alarm on Modi’s travels abroad!
As Prime Minister Modi is about to embark on his fourth visit to the U.S. in the last two years,…
Human right violations, intolerance major irritants on Modi’s visit to USA
Religious intolerance and violence, constraining minority rights and the restrictions on civil society organizations in India have become major irritants…
The Power of Money in Politics
The recent guilt plea by Congressman Ami Bera’s father, 83-year-old Babulal Bera, that he had violated campaign finance laws by…
Shani Patel at Rutgers University Fatally Shot
Shani Patel, an Indian American student at New Jersey-based Rutgers University was killed on April 10 in a shooting at an off-campus…
Replacing ‘India With South Asia’ In Textbooks Leads To Protests In California
Replacing ‘ancient India’ with ‘South Asia’ in school textbooks has led to protests and public awareness campaigns that included letters…
Nuclear Weapons: Greatest Threats To Global Security
“Of all the threats to global security and peace, the most dangerous is the proliferation and potential use of nuclear…
Will Raising Minimum Wages & Raising Taxes On The Rich Solve Income Inequality?
There is an increasing anger among the majority of people in the country towards the American establishment, towards the mainstream…
With the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, attention turns to Justice Sri Srinivasan
Washington, DC: February 14, 2016: With the sudden death of conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, all eyes are…
Rising Intolerance In Criticized By Leading Thinkers
The belligerent provocation of various Indian minorities has raised ethnic tensions, says Moody’s Analytics in a report that warned of…
Freedom and Liberty: – Are we true to its creed?
Dwight Eisenhower, the former President of the United Sates once said ‘only our individual faith in freedom can keep us…
Terrorism is ‘new world war’
Terrorism, a growing issue worldwide, is reported to have been responsible for killing 130,000 innocent people from a total of 90,000…
Hope In A Hopeless World
In a world that is beset with inequality, hatred, violence, divisions, epidemics, uncertainty and fear, faith can sometimes be overshadowed by doubt, despair and…
The Coming Of Age Of Indian Americans
The less than four million Indian Americans appear to be gaining prominence and have come to be recognized as a…
Cows are Protected; Humans are Not: A New Reality in Digital India!
When Narendra Modi was campaigning, voters were led to believe that he would fight against corruption and promote a developmental…
India, United States Will Continue To Push Ties To New Heights: U.S. Ambassador
Houston: U.S. and India have strengthened their ties in defence and counter-terrorism, global health, cyber security and deep space exploration,…
Challenges To Journalists In A Digitalized World
Globalization and digitalization are two realities of our times. They pose tremendous challenges to all people especially the men and…
Rakesh Kochhar: India’s middle class underperformance
It has proved hard for most Indians to better the global middle-income standard. Perhaps more than ever, India aspires to…
70 Years After Hiroshima
70 years ago, on August 6th, 1945 the city of Hiroshima in Japan was destroyed with an atomic bomb. In…