MANTECA - Lieutenant Governor of California John Garamendi attended a luncheon in Manteca for the Indian American community. During the luncheon the local community came together and addressed their concerns about the current state of California to Lt. Governor John Garamendi.
Lt. Governor John Garamendi praised the Indian American community for its contributions to America.
“As I [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Vijay K. Taneja, popular in the Indian American community for his Bollywood shows in the US, pleaded guilty to a massive $33 million mortgage fraud case, the largest mortgage fraud case in Virginia in almost 20 years and among the largest nationally. The money was apparently used to fund Taneja’s Bollywood ventures, [...]

VANCOUVER – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative party has returned to power, winning 144 seats in the 308-member parliament. Eight Indian-Canadians have won seats. The party will not have a true majority as it fell short of the 155-mark needed for the majority. The party had held 126 seats in the dissolved House of [...]

WASHINGTON - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced a new program - the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program - to strengthen confidence and encourage liquidity in the banking system by guaranteeing newly issued senior unsecured debt of banks, thrifts, and certain holding companies, and by providing full coverage of non-interest bearing deposit transaction accounts, regardless [...]

WASHINGTON (D. Miles) - President Bush signed the fiscal 2009 defense budget into law today, authorizing a $512 billion base to support military readiness, as well as $66 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The law also authorizes a 3.9 percent pay raise for servicemembers, to take effect Jan. 1. This represents a one-half-percent increase [...]

TALLAHASSEE - A 49-year-old illegal alien from Pakistan was convicted here yesterday for failing to comply with a removal order following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation.
Evidence introduced during the trial established that Sahi Sarwar, who had been ordered removed from the United States to Pakistan by an immigration court, willfully refused to [...]

WASHINGTON – David C. Kernell, 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn., for intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Kernell turned himself into federal authorities for arrest and will be arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley.
The single count indictment, returned on Oct. [...]

GRAND RAPIDS - Following a two-week trial, three men were found guilty by a federal jury here Thursday for their role in transporting into Michigan more than 63 kilograms (138 pounds) of cocaine, valued at more than $1.5 million.
Tarlochan Singh Guron, 51, Surinder Singh Dhaliwal, 29, both nationals from India and Canadian citizens, and Baljit [...]

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Devonshire Division were sent to the 20600 block of Como Lane to conduct a welfare check on the residents who lived there.  A family friend became concerned when one of the victims, uncharacteristically, failed to show up for her ride to a Los Angeles area pharmacy.  Because it [...]

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani while expressing dissatisfaction over the over all law and order situation in the country has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to fight terrorism and urged for an effective strategy to deal with terrorist incidents in a more coordinated manner in order to provide an environment of peace and [...]