“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

  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...

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...

  The appearance by students from Solomon Schechter Day School in New Milford and Children of Arya Samaj, a Hindu youth group in Ridgewood, was part of a push to celebrate diversity by the Jewish community in Hackensack — after anti-Semitic vandalism was found on synagogues...

  On one canvas, marmalade-hued sequins the size of small coins cascade across the dim visage of a woman cloaked in midnight blue. On another, streams of tiny red sequins drape downcast eyes like a beaded curtain. Underneath lies a dim, earthen, almost hidden woman’s face, her lips...