A lawsuit against US President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the US-Mexico border was filed by California along with 15 other states on Monday. According to a statement released by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday, the suit alleges the Trump administration’s action violates the Constitution. “President Trump treats the rule of law with utter contempt,” Becerra said. “He knows there is no border crisis, […]

Removing country limits for Green Cards will drastically reduce waiting time for those in queue, mostly from India and China, and protect them from exploitative employers, but will also lead to people of these two countries dominating this route to US citizenship, according to a new report. “Indian (and to a lesser extent Chinese and Filipino) nationals wait in much longer queues of pending employment-based petitions” for Green Card than […]

The United States has warned of having a “fundamentally different set of rules” to deal with the countries continuing to have economic activities with Iran after its sanction against Tehran becomes fully operational on November 4. “Make no mistake about it, come November 4 (and) there will be a fundamentally different set of rules with respect to anyone who deems it necessary to engage in economic activities with the Islamic […]

A record number of 20 Indian Americans are running for US Congressional elections this year. Collectively they have raised more than $15.5 million, as per latest official figures, with seven of them raising over a million each. With six months still to go for the November Congressional election, except for Hiral Tipirneni who is running for April 24 special elections in Arizona, the figure of more than $15.5 million raised […]

Hope Hicks, one of US President Donald Trump`s longest-serving, most trusted aides, is resigning from her job as White House communications director. The White House announced she was leaving a day after Hicks, 29, spent nine hours in a closed hearing of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Hicks` decision to leave […]

Mahindra manufacturing plant in USA DETROIT:  Call it MANA’s push in the time of #MAGA. India’s $19 billion business major Mahindra is taking another crack at the American market. Unrelenting in its effort to make a mark in the world’s premier auto industry, its US beachhead Mahindra Automotive North America(MANA) is opening a new manufacturing plant outside Detroit, a gambit that also fits in with President Trump’s Make American Great […]

With Donald Trump emerging as the Republican party’s most likely nominee for the U.S. presidency, we take a look at some of the controversies that his remarks generated during his campaign trail. Being in the running for the top job in the country doesn’t seem to have held him back from speaking his mind; the 69-year-old billionaire has been an equal-opportunity offender on the campaign trail, making inflammatory comments about […]

A superpower’s capital city that was brought to its knees with just an inch of snow midweek is gearing up for what meteorologists are predicting will be a epic winter storm that is expected to dump some 30 inches of snow in parts of the US northeast. Washington DC is shutting down metro and bus services for the weekend, and airlines are cancelling some 4,000 flights from several east coast […]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s much-awaited first TV ad features a promise that once he is at the helm he will “quickly cut” ISIS’ head and “take their oil”. Trump’s ad begins with a shot of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Then comes a US battleship launching a cruise-missile strike. It moves swiftly through an explosive montage — the suspects in the recent California terrorist attack, shadowy figures racing across […]

Some half dozen cars are parked in the largely empty lot of the warehouse style building bearing the name SVU – for Silicon Valley University — on Fortune Drive in San Jose. A few students are trickling in to the spare lobby of the building where two admin personnel are fielding questions behind an inquiry counter. There is a rather bare library to the right of the lobby with a […]