Alice Wong, disability rights activist and author, dies at 51Alice Wong, a prominent disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed away at 51. She was a fierc...
16 Nov, 2025, 08.13 AM IST
John MacArthur, evangelical pastor, dies at 86 after health battleJohn MacArthur, a prominent figure in evangelical Christianity and pastor of Grace Community Church, has died at 86 after battling pneumoni...
15 Jul, 2025, 09.23 AM IST
Shailaja Paik: Indian-American professor gets over Rs 6.7 crore "genius" grant for research on Dalit womenShailaja Paik, an Indian-American researcher on Dalit women, has been awarded an $800,000 MacArthur 'genius' grant. Paik, a history profess...
04 Oct, 2024, 08.46 PM IST
Iconic American author Cormac McCarthy passes away at 89The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who was best known for books such as 'The Road' and 'No Country For Old Men'., died on June 13.
14 Jun, 2023, 09.27 AM IST
President Biden nominates two prominent Indian-American doctors to key rolesWest Virginia's former health commissioner Dr Rahul Gupta was nominated as the next director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy....
14 Jul, 2021, 01.14 PM IST
How pandemic bonds became the world's most controversial investmentThe harshest critics of the World Bank's experiment have questioned whether it’s appropriate to tie responsibility for public health to pri...
10 Dec, 2020, 09.41 AM IST
Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win 2019 Nobel Economics Prize"This year's Laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty," the acade...
14 Oct, 2019, 06.45 PM IST
Indian American scientists to get MacArthur FellowshipThe Indian-Americans - Manu Prakash and Subhash Khot - are alumunus of Indian Institiute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur and Bombay respectiv...
23 Sep, 2016, 08.10 AM IST
ET Recommendations: Book, gadget and appThe Emerald Light in the Air', the title story, narrates the protagonist’s battle with depression but ends on a small note of salvation and...
23 Nov, 2014, 06.53 AM IST
Padma awards bestowed on two AmericansThree Indian-Americans - Ashok Kumar Mago, Dr Siddharth Mukherjee and Dr. Vamsi Mootha - will receive the prestigious Padma Shri awards.
26 Jan, 2014, 03.13 PM IST
US think tank launches website to encourage India-Pak dialogueAn American think-tank has launched a bloggers website to encourage dialogue between India and Pakistan.
05 Sep, 2013, 10.33 AM IST
- 10 Indian-American among 40 Intel science finalists
Young innovators chosen to participate in the Science Talent Search over the past 72 years have received some of the world's most prestigio...
01 Feb, 2013, 11.25 AM IST
Dr Jim Yong Kim is no financier, but that could be his strength in race for World Bank chiefJim Yong Kim, the physician and Dartmouth College president tapped by the US to run the World Bank, represents a break from the financiers ...
25 Mar, 2012, 10.17 AM IST
- Indian American wins prestigious Science talent search in US
An Indian-American teenager has won a prestigious Science talent competition in US for his research on devising a more effective and less t...
14 Mar, 2012, 12.08 PM IST