Op-Ed by Shivaji Sengupta It all started eleven days ago with Joe Biden's thumping win over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. The African Americans supported him overwhelmingly, this man who was Barack Obama's Vice President for eight years. The following week, except for California, it was a landslide for Biden. He won ten states to...
By SATimes Team New York: The Committee to Protect Journalists, a city-based nonprofit for safeguarding the rights of scribes across the world, has castigated the Indian government’s decision to suspend the broadcast of two Malayalam TV channels and noted that such moves would damage freedom of the press in a country known for its vibrant...
New York: A new bill has been introduced into the Alabama state legislature which would overturn a ban on teaching yoga in public schools, in place since 1993, on the grounds that yoga is a Hindu religious practice but would prohibit greeting “namaste.” A bill brought by Representative Jeremy Gray, a Democratic legislator from Opelika,...
New York: The only Indian-American member of the US Senate, Kamala Devi Harris, has endorsed Joe Biden for the Democratic Party presidential nomination after she herself was in the primary contest process earlier. It is now a two-horse race for the process, which had seen more than 20 candidates at the beginning. After making the endorsement...
Washington, DC: South Asians for Biden (SAB), a volunteer organization dedicated to increasing support for former Vice President Joe Biden in his bid to win the Democratic nomination within the South Asian and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, was launched late last month. To announce the launch, SAB recently hosted events in the Washington,...
New Delhi/Washington: The former American diplomat Robin Raphel and Ghulam Nabi Fai, a convicted felon who worked as Pakistan's spy to influence the US policy over Kashmir, are back in business. Top sources told IANS that Raphel, a Pakistani lobbyist after her retirement and probed in 2014 by the FBI on the suspicion that she...
New York: After his fiery performance as the angry young politician in 2019’s breakthrough hit The Tashkent Files, actor Prashantt Guptha will next be seen in a special role in ace filmmaker Neeraj Pandey’s magnum opus web-series Special Ops. Presented by Hotstar, the show is the first offering under Neeraj Pandey & Shital Bhatia's...
Washington, DC: A top Hindu-American body has accused a US commission on the international religious freedom of conducting hearings that perpetuate misinformation about the intent and impact of India's amended citizenship laws. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Wednesday expressed concern over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), saying it could result in...
Washington, DC: America’s largest apparel retailer Gap Inc has named Indian-American Sonia Syngal as its new CEO. India-born Syngal, who moved to Canada and later to the US with her family when she was a child, is the highest-ranked Indian-American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company after Indra Nooyi stepped down as PepsiCo head...
