NEW YORK: Internet websites promoting religious hatred and intolerance towards Hindus and Hinduism are proliferating, and this trend has adverse long-term consequences for the Hindu American community, according to the latest report released by the Hindu American Foundation (HAF). Entitled ‘Hyperlink to Hinduphobia: Online Hatred, Extremism and Bigotry Against Hindus’, the publication argues that exposing online hate-speech is a crucial first step in combating a major factor behind prevalent negative stereotypes of Hinduism.

WASHINGTON: In a welcome development for Indians seeking to work in the US, the Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced the extension of filing time for "O" and the "P" non-immigrant visas from six months to a year ahead of an event.

NEW YORK: Internet websites promoting religious hatred and intolerance towards Hindus and Hinduism are proliferating, and this trend has adverse long-term consequences for the Hindu American community, according to the latest report released by the Hindu American Foundation (HAF). Entitled ‘Hyperlink to Hinduphobia: Online Hatred, Extremism and Bigotry Against Hindus’, the publication argues that exposing online hate-speech is a crucial first step in combating a major factor behind prevalent negative stereotypes of Hinduism.

WASHINGTON: Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams is set to break the US record for the longest stay in space as her ride back to Earth is expected to be delayed.

BEVERLY HILLS, LA: Anand Jon Alexander stood in the court on Monday stripped bare of all his accolades and titles and has earned an overnight change in his status from a star fashion designer to a rapist, child molester and sexual pervert.

NEW YORK: India-born novelist Kiran Desai’s bestseller novel "The Inheritance of Loss" has bagged yet another literary honor - the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.

With investigators dragging their feet in finding the killer of Dr. Geetha Angara, the Totowa Water Treatment plant chemist whose body was found on the plant premises two years ago, her family and friends are pleading for a closure to their plight.