Washington, April 6: Asian Americans with college degrees are more likely to be jobless than their white counterparts in this harsh economy, according to a report. A study by the Economic Policy Institute entitled "Unfairly Disadvantaged" found that, while Asian Americans had lower overall jobless rates than whites from 2007-2010, those with ...

Washington, April 6: The Indian embassy and its consulates in other parts of the country have, like many missions in other parts of the world, outsourced passport related services. Outsourcing Agency VFS Global would begin its operations for the embassy in Washington, and for the consulates general in Chicago and New York ...

Washington, April 6: An Indian American professor, Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi, has been selected as a 2011-12 recipient of the James E. McLeod Faculty Recognition Award by the students of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Previously called the Faculty Awards, this year the ArtSci Council decided to rename the event in honour ...

Washington, April 6: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has received about 22,000 petitions for the much sought after H-1B work visas in the first four days after it started accepting applications on April 2, officials said. "We have received approximately 22,000 H-1B petitions for the fiscal 2013 beginning October 1 this ...

Washington, April 6: Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, the US Department of Defense has said. "Our assessment of the programme remains the same... We are very concerned about where they might be headed. An Iran with a nuclear weapon is unacceptable," said George Little, acting assistant secretary of ...

Islamabad, April 5: Pakistan cannot take action against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed in the absence of solid evidence, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The US Monday announced an award of up to $10 million for information leading to arrest and conviction of Saeed and $2 million for Hafiz Adbul Rahman Makki, ...

Washington, April 5: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the time for diplomacy with Iran over its disputed nuclear programme is not "infinite". "We want to see a peaceful resolution of the international community's concerns, but the time for diplomacy is not infinite and all options remain on the table ...

Washington, April 4: Yale University has selected 16 World Fellows for 2012. Two of them are from India, bringing the total number of fellows from India to 11 since the programme started in 2002. India and Britain - each with 11 fellows - have had more fellows in the Ivy League university's ...

Washington, April 5: To foster greater understanding about the Indian democratic framework, a US university has decided to establish India Chair, which is said to be the first endowed Chair in North America devoted to study this aspect of the country. The India Chair in Democracy and Civil Society at the L ...

Islamabad, April 4: A combative Hafiz Saeed, Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief, on Wednesday dared the U.S. to carry out a military raid against him like the one that killed Osama bin Laden, saying he was not hiding and would inform the Americans himself about his whereabouts. Saeed made the remarks while addressing a news ...