119 articles
Asia
‘Asoka makeup’: The TikTok Trend inspired by a 2001 Bollywood soundtrack
A new TikTok craze has beauty enthusiasts and content creators transforming into stunning Indian brides with Bollywood flair. Key points: ...
Bryan Ke
Film & TV
Fan speculation on Avantika playing a live-action Rapunzel sparks controversy
“Mean Girls” star Avantika Vandanapu, known mononymously as Avantika, has faced backlash amid rumors of her potentially playing ...
Michelle De Pacina
Canada
Video: Man verbally abuses South Asian pizza delivery worker
A video of a customer in Canada verbally abusing a pizza delivery worker with racist slurs has gone viral on social media. Key points: ...
Education
Indian professors file appeal to remove caste from Cal State non-discrimination policy
California State University (CSU) professors Sunil Kumar and Praveen Sinha have filed an appeal in federal court challenging the dismissal o...
Indian netizens praise Korean man for wearing dhoti in viral video
A South Korean man has been receiving tons of love from Indian social media users after a video of him wearing traditional South Indian atti...
Government
A record number of Indians are illegally entering the US through Mexico
A record number of Indian asylum seekers are crossing the United States-Mexico border, contributing to the challenges faced by the Biden adm...
Crime
Hong Kong police arrest man over sexual assault of Korean tourist during livestream
Hong Kong police have arrested a man for molesting a South Korean tourist who was livestreaming her first visit to the island. What happened...
Culture
Why buses in Japan use human hair in their fare collection boxes
The secret to making fare collection in Japanese buses more efficient turns out to be human hair — particularly Indian people’s hair. ...
Business
Asia’s richest man launches $12 4G phones
Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani, who is currently Asia’s richest man, has launched an internet-connected phone for 999 rupees (approxim...
Carl Samson
Judge grants bail to Indian, Pakistani ‘PUBG’ couple days after their arrest
A Pakistani and Indian couple who has made headlines for meeting while gaming online and were arrested for violating India’s immigrati...
Bay Area
State Department says fire attack on Indian consulate in San Francisco is criminal offense
The U.S. State Department has condemned the recent arson attack on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco. What happened: The San Francisco F...
Body of Indian engineer killed during Texas mass shooting returns home to Hyderabad
Aishwarya Thatikonda, one of the eight victims killed during a mass shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas, in early May, was laid to rest a day...
Student arrested after urinating on fellow passenger mid-flight from NYC to India
The Indian police have started filing a case against the college student who allegedly peed on another passenger during an American Airlines...
Health
Asia’s richest man to enter genetic testing market with $145 kits
Indian billionaire and Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is preparing to launch a comprehensive genome testing kits billed as the che...
Entertainment
Karan Soni slings his way into ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ cast as Spider-Man India
Actor Karan Soni, best known for his role as the taxi driver Dopinder in the “Deadpool” film franchise, will join the cast of the upcoming a...
Daniel Anderson
Lone Oscar nomination for ‘RRR’ prompts snub claims
The Telugu-language Indian action-drama film “RRR” earned a historic Oscar nod for Best Song on Tuesday, marking the first time a song from ...
Ryan General
Knife-wielding roosters kill 2 men in cockfighting events in India
Two men have reportedly been killed by knife-wielding roosters in separate cockfights in India. To mark the three-day celebration of the Hin...
LA’s TCL Chinese Theatre breaks out into dance during ‘RRR’ screening
With lots of cheering and chanting, audience members who attended TCL Chinese Theatre’s recent screening of Indian action drama film “...
William Yuk
Asia’s richest man regrets not completing college: ‘My abilities may have been faster’
Before you read: Indian college dropout becomes world’s third richest man While sitting on Forbes’ list as Asia’s richest man, Indian entrep...
News
3 parents dead after falling through frozen Arizona lake
Three parents recently died after falling through frozen ice at Woods Canyon Lake in Arizona. Narayana Muddana and Haritha Muddana, the pare...
Mindy Kaling’s animated series ‘Velma’ gets official release date
Before you read: Mindy Kaling says she doesn’t care about backlash against South Asian Velma in new Scooby-Doo spinoff Fans Split Over Mindy...
Editorial Staff
Young Indian Americans experience discrimination as early as preschool, study suggests
Researchers from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health conducted open-ended surveys on nine Indian American adolescents. Th...
Indian American boy, 16, dies after jumping off Golden Gate Bridge
A 16-year-old Indian American male jumped to his death from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on Tuesday, according to reports. The teen’...
Social Media
Man shares how he finally landed his Google job after nearly a decade of trying in viral Instagram post
Instagram user Advin Roy Netto (@advinroynetto), who has been applying for a job at Google since 2013, posted a video on Friday about final...
Isa Peralta
Feature
Crying father drops off daughter at dream college in wholesome viral video
A now-viral Instagram video posted by Preksha (@pre.xsha) on Wednesday shows her overjoyed parents dropping her off at Miranda House Colleg...
Rishi Sunak to become UK’s first British Asian prime minister
Rishi Sunak, a 42-year-old former finance minister, is set to become the U.K.’s first British Asian prime minister after winning the race o...
Music
‘Collab of the century’: TikTok video of Indian and Scottish fusion wedding goes viral
The wedding of an Indian and Scottish couple went viral on TikTok for their unique musical medley of both cultural backgrounds. Two men we...
Starbucks chooses Indian-born CEO to lead company as it faces inflation, unionization
Laxman Narasimhan, the former CEO of multinational consumer goods company Reckitt, has been chosen as the next CEO of the global coffee cha...
Indian college dropout becomes world’s third richest man
Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani, 60, is now the world’s third richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Adani, wh...
Priyanka Chopra Jonas says it took nearly 10 years to get desired Hollywood roles
Indian actor and model Priyanka Chopra Jonas shared during a recent interview with Pinkvilla that she is finally getting her desired Hollyw...
Indian American hiker found dead days after she was swept away in a flash flood in Utah
An Indian American hiker who went missing during a flash flood at Zion National Park in Utah last week was found dead. The body of Jetal Agn...
TikTok user shares ‘POV’ of Indians receiving ‘backhanded’ racial compliments
A TikTok user uploaded a viral video on Tuesday where he shows a comedic “POV” (point of view) of what it’s like receiving “backhanded comp...
Rebecca Moon
Transgender activist attacked in San Francisco robbery attempt says she was targeted for being Hindu
Anjali Rimi, president and chief executive officer of Parivar Bay Area, a San Francisco-based nonprofit supporting queer and trans South As...
Indian medical student refused to flee war-torn Ukraine without her Siberian husky puppy
A Kerala medical student, Arya Aldrin, refused to leave behind her six-month-old Siberian Husky puppy Zaira in Ukraine during evacuation. ...
Indian students stranded in Ukraine plead for help: ‘There is a lot of panic’
About 13,000 Indian students studying abroad in Ukraine are still stranded and desperately calling on the Indian Embassy to help them evacu...
Indian American couple from ‘Love is Blind’ not so blind when it comes to race and attraction
The “Love is Blind” Season 2 finale airs tomorrow, and people wonder whether one of the show’s most popular couples, Indian American couple...
Jane Nam
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