Washington, May 19 (IANS) Indian-American community leader and former presidential adviser, Ajay Bhutoria, on Monday hailed the dismissal of criminal charges against the Adani Enterprises Ltd, calling it a “definitive legal victory” and describing the Adani Group’s proposed $10 billion investment in the United States as a “game-changer” for the American infrastructure and technology leadership.In a statement issued from Silicon Valley, Bhutoria said the resolution marked a major turnin…
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Washington, May 19 (IANS) US Congressman Ro Khanna said India must increasingly act like a global power and take on greater international responsibilities as it rises economically and strategically on the world stage.Speaking at the Capitol Hill Summit 2026 organised by the US-India Friendship Council, Khanna said India’s growing influence carried obligations beyond regional politics and economic growth.“India has to decide who it wants to be as it enters this place of world leadership,” K…
Washington, May 15 (IANS) California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a series of appointments across state agencies, including the appointment of Indian American business executive Yogesh “Yogi” Chugh to the Structural Pest Control Board, according to an official statement released by the Governor’s office.Chugh, a resident of Fremont, “has been appointed to the Structural Pest Control Board,” the statement said.According to the release, Chugh “has been an Executive Managing Director…
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) West Bengal BJP President, Samik Bhattacharya, on Wednesday alleged that Trinamool Congress activists were attacking the offices of the party’s own leaders after the BJP’s landslide victory in the state Assembly polls.He was reacting to reports of post-poll violence in the state which claimed that several offices of Trinamool Congress have allegedly been attacked.Speaking to IANS, Bhattacharya alleged that now there is a “discord” within the Trinamool Congress, because of w…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Shenzhen, long celebrated as the crown jewel of China’s economic transformation, is facing a sharp and unsettling slowdown, raising serious questions about the durability of the country’s growth model under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a report has said.For decades, Shenzhen symbolised the success of reform and opening up — an industrial powerhouse where factories operated around the clock, global supply chains converged, and opportunity drew millions seeking p…
New York, May 5 (IANS) Two Indian journalists have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for an art reporting project exposing cybercrime in India.Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, along with Natalie Obiko Pearson, were announced as the winners on Monday in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category for the report they produced for Bloomberg.Another Indian journalist, Devjyot Ghoshal, was a finalist in the same category for an expose of cybercrime and trafficking in Southeast Asia, in which crimi…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Apart from becoming the world’s fastest-growing major economy, India is emerging as a new global centre of gravity — capable of providing a bridge between countries in a world that is fragmenting into competing blocs, according to an article in The Times of Israel.It highlights that India is the central voice of the Global South and a preferred partner for digital infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, energy transition, and security cooperation across Africa, the Gulf an…
Stanford, April 18 (IANS) Restrictive US immigration policies under President Donald Trump are pushing talent and innovation out of America, with India emerging as a key beneficiary, Silicon Valley-based immigration expert Vivek Wadhwa said.Drawing on personal experience and research, Wadhwa told IANS the United States is losing its competitive edge as barriers to skilled migration rise. “We’re chasing the best and the brightest away… these backwards immigration policies… are doing a lot…
Stanford (California), April 17 (IANS) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Friday told a Silicon Valley gathering that scientific progress must be guided by ethics and equality, warning that unchecked technological growth could deepen social divides. Speaking at the Thrive 2026 conference at the prestigious Stanford University, Hosabale said India’s civilisational knowledge systems treat science and spirituality as interconnected. He said he had come “t…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) China’s popular AI chatbot DeepSeek experienced the biggest outage in its history, with the platform going offline for over seven hours overnight.Outage‑tracking platform Downdetector showed users first reporting problems on Sunday evening, multiple reports said, adding that DeepSeek’s status page acknowledged the initial issue at 9:35 pm.The platform marked the issue as resolved about two hours later, but problems recurred and were not fully fixed until 10:33 am…