‘To make Pakistan behave, strengthen US-India ties’
Noting that Pakistan deliberately uses terrorism against India, a US scholar has advocated stronger ties with New Delhi and asking Islamabad to start cooperating or lose its aid and face outright isolation.
Next book is a while away, says Mukherjee
It’s just been a couple of days since he won the Pulitzer, but Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has no time to celebrate.
No conclusive mobile use, cancer link: Pulitzer winner
INDIAN AMERICAN cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee, who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his very first book, says there is no conclusive study linking the use of cell phones to brain cancer.
Indian doc’s book on cancer a big hit
Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee, whose very first book has become a runaway success, advocates a strong anti-smoking campaign and breast cancer screening to battle the growing i
US Indian discovers planet of diamonds?
Astronomers led by Indian American Nikku Madhusudhan have discovered a giant planet with an atmosphere and core dominated by carbon, raising the prospect that diamond-studded stars may exist.
Artificial kidney by US Indian researcher awaits human trial
A COFFEE CUP sized implantable artificial kidney being developed by a US researcher of Indian origin, is awaiting animal and human trials to bring affordable treatment to millions of kidney failure pa
‘Khelein Hum... would be an enlightening experience’
Award-winning director Ashutosh Gowariker is confident that his new film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey on the Chittagong uprising would be an enlightening experience for people in the subcontinent as he himself was shocked to learn he knew nothing about it. “I was shocked that I did not know anything about it. So when I discovered this I
In US, dance moves make waves
US President Barack Obama’s unscripted dance moves while celebrating Diwali with students in Mumbai are making news back home in the US.
Nikki 1st US Indian woman as governor
Nikki Haley, the daughter of Sikh immigrant parents from Amritsar, created history by becoming the first woman to win the governor’s race in South Carolina and the first Indian-American woman to become a US governor. Ms Haley, born Nimrata Randhawa, will be America’s second Indian-American governor after Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, also a Republican, who became the first three years ago.
Nikki set to win governor race
The fate of a record seven Indian-Americans, six of them Democrats, hangs in balance in Tues-day’s elections, with US President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party expected to lose seats in both chambers. But Republican Nikki Haley is favoured to win the governor’s race in South Carolina.