Mamdani represents a different era — one less interested in fitting in, and more in standing firm. Obama deflected when his middle name became a slur in the mouths of opponents. Mamdani pronounces his own name slowly until others get it right. Obama avoided being read through a Muslim lens. Mamdani says being Muslim, African-born, and South Asian is the story — not a liability.
Mamdani’s performance becomes even more striking when the kind of coalition he built in the world’s most multicultural and multilingual city is brought into consideration. Early analysis shows that apart from South Asian American voters, including Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Afghan, Sri Lankan and Nepalese, he also won over White, Black and Latino voters in excess of expectations. He did particularly well in the demographic below 45 years in age
With barely five days to go for New York’s mayoral election, it is remarkable that whether or not its Indian American candidate, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani, wins has become a sort of a litmus test for the Democratic Party
Trinidad and Tobago’s Republican Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and the right to worship. This freedom must never be surrendered to any authority or circumstance. The celebration of Diwali, deeply rooted in the history of East Indian indentured laborers who arrived 187 years ago from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, remains a testament to their enduring faith and contribution to our society.
The arc of history sometimes bends in unexpected ways as seen in the Portuguese leadership 60 years after the liberation of Goa from Portuguese rule. Portugal is now led by people of Indian descent with family ties to the former colony - Prime Minister António Luís Santos da Costa, Finance Minister Joao Leao and Planning Minister Nelson de Sousa.
Prof Chennupati Jagadish, a nanotechnology pioneer and physics researcher at the Australian National University (ANU) whose early years in India were spent studying before a kerosene lamp, has been named as the next president of the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), the country’s premier science body
At least 66 identified Indian-origin terrorists were operating abroad with the global terrorist organisation Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has sprouted new branches in Pakistan and India and also marked its presence in Bangladesh and the Maldives through affiliates, according to the US State Department
After making their mark as corporate heads in the United States, Indian-origin CEOs are now moving on to Europe
India is situated in a tough neighbourhood and, as US envoy, he will work to achieve India's security as “few nations are more vital to the future of American security and prosperity than India,” Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden's nominee as the next ambassador to India said at his confirmation hearing
President Joe Biden’s nominee for US Ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome, said during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday that he will press Islamabad to target all terrorist organizations without differentiating between them
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to take up the long-delayed confirmation process for Eric Garcetti as the ambassador to India and Donald Armin Blome as the envoy to Pakistan on Tuesday
The United States has imposed sanctions on Bangladesh's elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and six of its current and former officers for alleged involvement in "grave human rights abuses"
The US Department of Labor has been asked to investigate claims that HCL America, a subsidiary of India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm generating 63% of its $11 billion in revenue in the United States, systematically violated the law by paying its H-1B workers much less than its US employees with similar skills and doing the same work
US officials have said that they will not punish any of the American troops or officials involved in the drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan in August earlier this year, the US media reported on Tuesday
US President Joe Biden has appointed Gautam Raghavan, an Indian American, as head of the White House personnel office
At least 110 stranded Indians and Afghan Sikhs and Hindus were flown to New Delhi from Kabul in a special flight chartered by the Indian government, said Puneet Singh Chandhok, President, Indian World Forum
To one of the questions from the audience: What is the best advice you have received so far in your professional life, Nooyi answered: "Put your hand up for the most difficult assignment because then you'll leave a mark and you'll be remembered."
In rare condolence to the military chief of another country, emblematic of the growing security partnership between the two nations, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin hailed General Bipin Rawat's role in the transformation of India's military and said he had left an “indelible mark” on their defence ties
Afghan refugees in Indonesia have sewn their lips shut in an attempt to draw UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) attention as the organisation has allegedly failed to address their problems and process their asylum-seeking cases
