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Indians top in US per capita income but 8% live below poverty
22 Feb 2013 7:22 AM ISTBoasting of having the highest per capita income among all the major ethnic groups, more than eight percent of the nearly three million Indian...
NRI gets 17-year jail term for $57-mn US healthcare fraud
4 Feb 2013 7:36 AM ISTAn Indian-American pharmacist has been sentenced to 17 years in prison by a US court for a healthcare fraud worth millions. Babubhai (Bob) Patel, 50,...
55% Indian-origin Americans own houses
2 Feb 2013 4:57 AM ISTThough Indian-Americans have the distinction of being the highest-per capita income group among ethnic communities, they lag far behind their European...
US faces default spectre by Feb, warns outgoing treasury secy
16 Jan 2013 7:16 AM ISTWarning US Congressmen that time is fast running out on the debt ceiling issue, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that America could ...
‘US has tackled situation better than other crisis-hit economies’
12 Jan 2013 7:22 AM ISTUS President Barack Obama has said that owing to some 'tough measures' taken by his administration, the American economy is better positioned for...
Enough women in Obama Admin, says White House
11 Jan 2013 7:38 AM ISTWomen are adequately represented in the Obama Administration including those in the top Cabinet level positions, other judiciary positions, the White...
Gulf War commander Schwarzkopf dies
29 Dec 2012 7:17 AM ISTNorman Schwarzkopf, the burly US general who led coalition forces during the 1991 Gulf War, which liberated Kuwait from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,...
Every Christmas I got new Barbie: Michelle
26 Dec 2012 6:37 AM ISTWhen she was a child, she loved Barbie dolls and used to receive one every Christmas, US First Lady Michelle Obama told American children during a...
India’s lost decade: $123 bn black money siphoned out
19 Dec 2012 5:41 AM ISTIndia lost a whopping $123 billion in black money during 2001-2010, making it the eight largest victim of illicit financial outflows, a US-based...
Delhi’s Nehru Place among world’s top 30 notorious IT markets
15 Dec 2012 6:20 AM ISTIndian capital’s famous Nehru Place market has been placed among the top 30 notorious IT markets of the world that deal in goods and services ...
US records lowest joblessness of 7.7% since 2008 recession
8 Dec 2012 7:29 AM ISTThe US economy created 146,000 jobs in November, bringing down unemployment rate to 7.7 per cent, the lowest since the recession time in 2008.Even...
Gandhi’s descendant in Kansas assembly
12 Nov 2012 7:30 AM ISTA great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi has been elected to a State Assembly in the United Stated during the general elections held on 6 November.Shanti...