Ganesha, the controversial Hindu idol in downtown Coeur d’Alene, received an unscheduled makeover during the Christmas weekend. As you may recall, some Lake City residents were upset when the Ganesha statue by Spokane artist Rick Davis made an appearance on Sixth Street and Sherman Avenue...

“It’s been one year, five months, three weeks and three days today,” Salomy Puthuvamkunnath said, crying as she spoke with the Daily News last month about her son, Jijo. The case against against boozed-up motor boat operator Richard Acquilone has languished in Manhattan Criminal...

While members of an Islamic cultural center gathered for a Sunday evening dinner, a Molotov cocktail hurled by an unknown assailant and made from a Starbucks bottle burst and shattered against the center’s main entrance. Another was thrown at the sign for the center’s school. Share

While setting up her new life in New Delhi and struggling to become a journalist in a country that is low on the list of desired coverage areas, she learns a lot about the culture of India through friends and others she meets along the way. Share...

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (MM), India’s biggest sport-utility vehicle manufacturer, is interested in buying at least parts of bankrupt Swedish carmaker Saab Automobile, two people familiar with the situation said. Share...

Buy your new TV in September or January. That’s when the new models come out and the prices go way down on discontinued models. Another time to get a deal: Black Friday, if you’re willing to brave the crowds. Share...

  Robert Siegel speaks with Shree Bose, the winner of this year’s Google Science Fair. Bose investigated why cancer cells become resistant to the chemotherapy drug Cisplatin. Through her research, she discovered a specific protein that makes cancer cells resistant to the...

Fresenius Medical Care AG, the world’s biggest provider of kidney dialysis, said sales of blood-filtering products in India have grown more than 30 percent annually since 2006. Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. and Fortis Healthcare India Ltd., the country’s biggest...

  As sole proprietor of his subscription email newsletter, the East Bay News Service, Handa prided himself on holding elected officials accountable and strictly obeying the anti-secrecy mandates in government law. He called himself a journalist but crossed the line of traditional...

  During a trip to India a few years ago and after observing the New Delhi traffic, I devised a great idea for Tata, the Indian car maker: manufacture the cars so that once the car is started the horn turns on and stays on until the car is turned off.  I was sure the drivers in New...

Boeing Co.’s newly completed 787 delivery center in North Charleston has booked its first guest: Air India is scheduled to pick up the first South Carolina-assembled 787 Dreamliner in the spring, the plane maker confirmed Thursday. Published reports for months have named the South Asian...

Back in September, Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris killed the proposed takeover of a struggling Victorville hospital by a nonprofit arm of Prime Healthcare Corp., saying it was “not in the public interest.” Her ruling was anything but casual. Basing the decision on what she said...

An Ohio-born standup comedian who bills himself as “The Funny Indian” will find out whether people in his ancestral homeland agree. Rajiv Satyal will tour India with two other Indian-American comedians on a Jan. 4-17 trip organized by the U.S. State Department. He says their comedy...

Indian maker Mahindra & Mahindra issued a statement to reject a report that it might build its trucks in Alabama with the help of truck maker Navistar, the Detroit Bureau reports. Share...

Indian-American journalist Arun Gupta, one of the early advocates of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and co-founder and first editor of its cleverly named mouthpiece The Occupied Wall Street Journal, believes the nationwide protests have already significantly influenced American politics...