British police have launched a probe after a 25-year-old Sikh man reported that he was racially abused by a woman on board a train last month
Surjit Patar, an Indian Punjabi-language writer and poet is scheduled to be the special guest at the event.
President Barack Obama presented the 2014 National Medals of Arts and Humanities to Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri and 20 other distinguished persons at a White House ceremony.
An Indian-American engineer is making a bid to become the first South Asian mayor of Sugar Land in the US state of Texas, a media report said.
The symbolic step pursued by the Palestinians in their quest for an independent state saw 119 nations vote "yes" and 45 abstain.
Satishkumar Patel and his wife Daxaben Patel, who operated the Route 56 Express gas station and convenience store in McPherson city, Kansas, entered their guilty pleas on Thursday before a US district court judge