Two Indians have been named as scholars in the McDonnel International academy.
The Nevada State Assembly heard Hindu prayers at the opening of its session.
Lawmakers will decide whether threading should be exempted from state cosmetology regulations.
V Ramanathan has bagged the prestigious Cozzarelli Paper of the Year Prize for 2007.
Desai's book
The Inheritance of Loss will receive the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
The latest review of social studies textbooks has upset the Indian community in California.
Talwinder Singh was held after he threatened an off-duty police officer with a metal bar.
John Davis was charged for first-degree aggravated manslaughter for killing Bhavna Patel.

US authorities has been ordered to sell a steel plant owned by the Indian steel magnate near Baltimore.
Republican Harry Sidhu wants to be the first Indian American in California Senate.
Americans see illegal immigration, loss of jobs to foreign countries, natural disaster and energy shortage as events likely to be threats to their country in the next five years.
Five community radio stations have been set up in three North-Eastern states of which two were set up in Meghalaya.
Professor Loganathan was teaching in one of the classes where shooting took place and was missing.