A group of devotees, who met at the Ritz Gardens here May 6, called on individuals and organizations to join hands to build a Jalaram Bapa Community Center in Los Angeles.

Police authorities in Dallas, Texas, are continuing their investigation into the death of a 28-year-old Indian engineer but have ruled out any foul play, according to an Indian American organization.

Six Indian scientists, including two Indian Americans, with exceptional expertise in their respective fields, were recently announced as newly elected Fellows of the prestigious Royal Society for 2012.

A Wesleyan college student apologized for a poster she created during a Holi event that caused quite an uproar.

Security expert Vikram J. Singh, a former close aide to the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke, has been appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense, South and Southeast Asia, at the Pentagon.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Sanjay Kumar, who is campaigning for re-election, is facing an attack from his opponent, Kim Smith, ostensibly for his unfamiliar name.

A local restaurateur Satish Mehtani has mobilized a group of Indian Americans who are calling for justice for Dharun Ravi, who was convicted of convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate, who committed suicide.

Akash Dube, a 19-year-old Indian American freshman at Stanford University and now at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, has been fighting a relapse of leukemia for the last four months and needs platelet donations.

Pradeep K. Khosla, currently the dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, was named May 3 as the next Chancellor of UC San Diego.

More than 85 percent of Indian Americans view President Barack Obama’s job performance favorably and three-quarters of them plan to vote for him this November, concluded a new poll released May 1.