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Anila Baby, a 32-year-old Indian-origin woman accused of killing two close friends in California, is set to undergo a mental evaluation after her defense attorney questioned her competency to stand trial.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has made manufacturing and the cost of living central to his pitch to Ohio voters, using a Republican rally in Lima to promote Vivek Ramaswamy's bid for governor and defend President Donald Trump's economic agenda.

Across the globe, a new generation of youth leaders is stepping up to champion grassroots education and community welfare, proving that compassion has no age limit or geographic boundary.

iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- An Indian-origin doctor from Louisiana has been arrested in Florida in connection with the drowning death of a seven-year-old boy who was under her supervision when the incident occurred in April. Sukanthini Subbiah, 48, was arrested Wednesday, October 7, by the Orlando Police Department and charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter in the []

The suspension of leading IT firms from the green card program signals a turning point in American labour policy with wide implications for Indian professionals and global universities.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and four other technology leaders have received the United States' highest honors for scientific achievement and technological innovation, as President Donald Trump highlighted their contributions to artificial intelligence, computing and space exploration.

Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot who helped prevent a potential disaster by saving the lives of 172 passengers after a fellow pilot allegedly attacked him with an axe aboard a Flydubai flight, will be recognised in the official record of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Indian-origin Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal has defended Microsoft against the Trump administration's decision to suspend its green card sponsorship process, drawing a sharp response from Vice President JD Vance, who accused her of supporting cheap foreign labor for major corporations.

California Congressman James Gallagher has called on the Trump administration to review U.S. wine regulations and pursue better access to India and Vietnam, as growers face falling domestic demand, trade barriers in Canada and competition from imported products.

Vice-President JD Vance on Thursday, October 8, has defended the government's push to tighten H-1B visa rules, saying the United States should welcome exceptional foreign talent but not allow companies to use immigration programs to replace American workers with lower-paid employees.

Microsoft, Adobe and six major IT outsourcing companies, including India's Infosys, Tata, Wipro and HCL, are facing a suspension of their green card sponsorship process as the Trump administration steps up investigations into alleged visa fraud and hiring practices.

Canadian writer and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for a body of work that has challenged traditional boundaries between poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction and translation.

The four years I spent far above Cayugas waters, attending Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, are among the four best years of my life. That is why it is so confusing and painful to see the same paths I crossed ten thousand times, maybe, now marked by around-the-clock vigils and protests over the fate of Jane Doe and her allegations of sexual assault against seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity in a civil complaint filed on September 14, 2026.

Tanishq has opened its 11th store in the U.S., strengthening its presence in a market with a large and diverse South Asian community.

Veteran Indian actor Nana Patekar died at a private hospital in Goa on Thursday morning, October 8, after he was found unconscious at his home in Dona Paula, near Panaji. He was 76.

A Georgia man of Pakistani-origin has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for helping a fraud ring steal gold and cash from an elderly victim by pretending to be federal agents.

The Trump administration is stepping up efforts to rebuild the U.S. Navy and revive the countrys shipbuilding industry, with a new plan to expand naval production for decades to come.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed a major change to Optional Practical Training (OPT), the program that allows international students in F-1 status to obtain practical work experience in the United States related to their field of study.

Breast cancer survivors who struggle with memory, attention or concentration may have changes in several connected areas of the brain, a new review of brain imaging studies has found.

The detention of Indian-origin filmmaker Arfat Sheikh by ICE authorities has drawn attention from supporters, who has launched an online fund-raising campaign while seeking his release, reports said.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has turned cautious on inflation, raising its benchmark interest rate for the first time in nearly four years and leaving the door open to further increases as price pressures build and the currency weakens.

Lionel Messi gave Argentina fans a farewell to remember on Tuesday, October 6, scoring once and setting up a brace as the world champions beat Benin 3-0 in Buenos Aires.

A Pennsylvania doctor of Indian-origin, who led the North American Telugu Association (NATA), admitted in federal court that he took part in a scheme that fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in corporate charitable matching funds and involved falsifying the nonprofits tax returns.

The institutional balance between the judiciary and executive statutory bodies forms the core of democratic governance. Recent public observations made by a sitting member of the apex court have brought this delicate balance into sharp focus, raising fundamental questions about judicial decorum, free expression, and the sub judice doctrine.

The 2026 South Asian Literature and Arts Festival brought Nobel laureates, authors, artists and cultural leaders to Menlo College on Sept. 26 and 27, drawing more than 1,000 attendees for two days of discussions, readings, poetry, performances and visual art.

Today, I want to talk about something that is more taboo. When a couple is struggling to get pregnant, society automatically assumes it is the womans fault.

A detector buried deep beneath the Antarctic ice has opened a new way of studying the universe, and the scientist whose vision helped make it possible has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 6.

Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, a sitting judge of the Indian Supreme Court, while speaking at the valedictory function of a moot court competition at NALSAR, Hyderabad, on Sunday, October 4, spoke strongly against the disenfranchisement of millions of Indian voters by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

The 2027 World Cup is shaping up to be less a tournament and more an endurance test, for the teams, the players and perhaps even ODI cricket itself. With South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia preparing to host cricket's biggest 50-over spectacle from October 2 to November 21, the ICC has expanded the field and radically changed the route to the title.

An Indian-origin woman from Telangana died in a crash in Missouri after she was returning home from the restaurant she ran in St. Louis, leaving behind a two-and-a-half-year-old child and a grieving family.

U.S. and Indian defense officials held a series of high-level meetings in New Delhi as the two countries looked to deepen their military and maritime cooperation across the Indo-Pacific.

The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 40 naturalized Americans in a series of cases that span alleged immigration fraud, concealed crimes, tax violations and national security offenses.

The ability to control nerve cells with light, giving scientists a new way to study how the brain produces memories, emotions and behavior, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has called for immediate government action to oversee artificial intelligence, warning that companies developing increasingly powerful AI systems should not be allowed to decide on their own how those systems are regulated.

I am a Kashmiri. Though my ancestors migrated to the plains of India over 200 years ago, we never forgot our Kashmiri roots and always prided ourselves on being Kashmiris.

FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins are engaged, with the couple sharing the news on social media.

For many farmers in developing countries, artificial intelligence may be less about replacing jobs and more about making basic services and knowledge easier to access, World Bank President Ajay Banga said, pointing to an initiative in Uttar Pradesh that helps women farmers identify crop diseases using basic smartphones.

India and Canada are moving quickly to rebuild their economic ties, with negotiators set to meet in Ottawa this week for a fifth round of talks aimed at completing a long-awaited trade agreement by the end of 2026.

Indias white-ball cricket is producing gold, records and a frightening amount of batting depth. Yet, beneath that success lies a question that cannot be ignored: is 50-over cricket itself keeping pace with the game India is building? The answer from the Asian Games in Nisshin and the subsequent West Indies ODI series is both encouraging and worrying.

In a fractured geopolitical landscape, India's diplomatic choices are increasingly under global scrutiny. At a recent South Asian Literature Association gathering, senior Congress leader and former Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid discussed India's Tryst with the World, a 2025 volume in the Rethinking India series edited by Salil Shetty and Khurshid. He used the discussion to examine the evolution of Indian foreign policy, the legacy of nonalignment and the challenges facing Indi

It is without question that education helped me escape, or at least deal it my way, the wounds of my forefathers. The same is true for both my parents different times, but on a much more impactful fashion. The gospel of education lived in the house as a most-valued valued member, her fragrance at times raw and merciless wafted through our every breath, and flowed through our veins as sustenance.

The United States is leading a new international push to change how scientific research is funded, organised and carried out, with 16 other countries backing a plan that puts artificial intelligence, advanced computing and Super Intelligence at the center of future scientific discovery.

The global Indian diaspora has called for improvements in consular services, financial access, cultural programs and other areas in a memorandum submitted to India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during his recent visit to New York.

A nutrient found in everyday protein-rich foods may help cells produce energy more efficiently by preventing the breakdown of key mitochondrial proteins, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Cologne, Germany.

The 19th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas Convention will be held in Kolkata from Jan. 7-9, 2027, the Ministry of External Affairs said.

Community leaders across the San Francisco Bay Area bade a warm farewell to the outgoing Deputy Consul General of India in San Francisco Rakesh Adlakha, whose three-year-and-a-half-year tenure concluded Sept. 30.

In the midst of artificial intelligence agents going rogue routinely in all major labs comes a paper warning about the dangers of an intelligence explosion, where AI surpasses human intelligence through recursive self-improvement.

A Hindu temple in the greater Cleveland area of Ohio was vandalized with bricks while priests and devotees were inside on Friday, October 2, according to reports.

India's men's team successfully defended its Asian Games hockey title after beating Malaysia 5-1 in the final on Saturday, October 3, at the Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium in Kakamigahara.

The Indian Consulate in Los Angeles marked Gandhi Jayanti and Shastri Jayanti with two separate programs in the city, bringing together community members to remember Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on October 2.