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'The Illegal' shortlisted for Oscar in Best Picture Category
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Indian-American film, 'The Illegal' has been shortlisted at the Oscars 2021 for the Best Picture category.
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White House budget chief nominee Neera Tanden withdraws nomination
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington DC [US], March 3 (ANI): Indian-American Neera Tanden on Tuesday withdrew her nomination as Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget after the Democrats failed to secure enough votes in the Senate to secure her confirmation.
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India's women scientists breaking barriers in space exploration
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): A video of NASA's Perseverance rover landing went viral early this month. The video making rounds on the internet featured a bindi-sporting Indian-American aerospace engineer named Swati Mohan, who was one of the many people who spearheaded the development a
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Meet Indian American who leads NASA's operation Perseverance Rover Landing
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 19 (ANI): The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Perseverance rover on Thursday (local time) successfully touched down on the surface of Mars after surviving a blazing seven-minute plunge through the Martian atmosphere. Among the scientists wh
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Indian American Rohit Chopra nominated as head of Consumer Financial Prote
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 14 (ANI): Indian American Rohit Chopra's nomination for Director of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) has been sent to the Senate.
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Trump let us down, has no future in Republican Party, says Haley
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
South Carolina [US], February 13 (ANI): Indian American Republican politician and 2024 GOP (another name for the Republican Party -- Grand Old Party) Nikki Haley slammed former President Donald Trump for his involvement in the Capitol insurrection stating that he has "let us down".
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Indian-American Congressman Krishnamoorthi seeks FBI probe into vandalism
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi on Tuesday sought an FBI probe into the desecration of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in California.
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Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna condemns vandalisation of Gandhi sta
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 2 (ANI): Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna on Tuesday condemned the vandalisation of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the US state of California and urged the people to take the time to talk instead of resorting to public vandalism.
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NASA names Indian American Bhavya Lal as acting chief of staff
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 2 (ANI): The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has named Bhavya Lal as acting chief of staff for the agency. As the senior White House appointee at NASA, Lal served as a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for the age
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Indian-Americans hold vigil in US after another Gandhi statue vandalised
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Davis [US], February 1 (ANI): In protest against the vandalism of a Mahatma Gandhi statue in California's Davis, Indian Americans on Sunday held a vigil and demanded reinstallation of the statue.
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Indian American Congressman Ami Bera re-named as Chair of House Foreign Af
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [US], January 29 (ANI): The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday announced that it has re-elected Indian American veteran Congressman Ami Bera, D-California, to again serve as chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation.
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Kamala Harris - breaker of glass ceilings who lives her American dream
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): Kamala Harris, who will take oath on Wednesday as the first woman, the first Indian-American and the first African-American US Vice President, has broken many glass ceilings in her career.
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