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...

The Hindu American Foundation held a forum Saturday in Farmington Hills, raising $30,000 from residents to help spread its message of pluralism and peace. Co-founded by Southfield native Dr. Mihir Meghani, the foundation is the only group based in Washington, D.C., that deals with issues...

Monica Sebes and her son, Michael, 11, were among about 100 Livonia residents who enjoyed a free Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday at Leon’s Family Dining in Livonia. Michael’s favorite part was the pumpkin pie, but Monica’s was the generosity of the community members who made...

The three most common languages spoken for Indians in Cook County are Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati, but there are dozens more, including Tamil, Punjabi, and Telugu, to name a few. And they’re not all united by a common written script, as with Chinese. So Bateman and officials with the election...

 Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has lauded the Indo American Center (IAC), a city-based community centre, for it”s outstanding work for the society. Indo American Centre recently celebrated 21 years of service to the community and announced plans for expansion of facilities needed to meet...

When Ramsey Ford and Kate Hanisian spent months in Thiruchuli, a rural town in Tamil Nadu, India, they weren’t on an extended vacation. They were working with members of the community to design a way to use waste from a nearby charcoal plant to make fuel that burned cleaner than wood while...

Several news sources have previously reported that InfoSys Ltd., a $6.35 billion, 133,000 person company based in India, was nearing a deal to purchase the Ann Arbor-based division of Thomson Reuters. But InfoSys spokeswoman Sarah Gideon said in an email that the two companies were not...

The men in the SUV were Venkata Chalam Pasala, 30,  Rajendra Prasad Jonnala, 50, Satyendranath Akula, 35 and Sumanth Rajana, 32. Pasala was a husband and the father of a 2-year-daughter. Jonnala is the father-in-law of Pasala and came to America to see the birth of his granddaughter. Akula...