Category: USA

Donald Trump has been elected 45th President of the United States. The Republican nominee won on Wednesday. 5 quotes from his victory speech: I want to tell the world, while we will always put America’s interests first, we will deal fairly with other countries and all people. We will get along well with all nations willing to get along with us. […]

Pramila Jayapal on Wednesday became the First Indian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representative, winning the Washington State Senate seat. 51-year-old Ms. Jayapal got 57 per cent of the votes from Washington State, leaving behind her rival Brady Walkinshaw who secured 43 per cent votes. India-born Ms. Jayapal made a mark with her progressive agenda in […]

Canada immigration site crashes, shows internal server error. Some users in the United States, Canada and Asia saw an internal server error message when trying to access the Canada Immigration and Visa Information website. Canada's immigration website has crashed. I'm sure that's a coincidence. — Jay Snyder (@JayViscant) November 9, 2016 A friend just called to say that Canada's immigration […]

Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, was on Monday elected to the United States Senate. She was elected from California, her home state, and is the first ever Indian-American to be elected to the Senate, the US legislature’s upper house. Harris, 51, defeated fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez by a 34.8 percentage point margin, winning 1,904,714 votes. She was backed by both […]

Democratic Indian-American businessman Raja Krishnamoorthi, 43, today won election to the US House of Representatives from the state of Illinois. He contested for the 8th Congressional District of Illinois, which includes Chicago’s west and northwest suburbs. Krishnamoorthi ran for the House on a platform that included protecting Social Security and medical benefits, making higher education more affordable, and bolstering small […]