“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...
NYPD investigates firebomb attacks on Muslims, Hin...
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
Diabetes-Damaged Kidneys Spur India Dialysis Sales...
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...
Oakland City Hall gadfly Sanjiv Handa has died
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...
Air India to get 1st South Carolina 787
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...
Kamala Harris goes after Dr. Prem Reddy’s Pr...
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...
Rajiv Satyal to tour India
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...
Mahindra’s prospects dim in the U.S.
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...
Arun Gupta: ‘I don’t believe in objectivity…...
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...