WASHINGTON: Sandeep Kaur (24), a woman of Indian-origin was convicted of robbing four banks in three American states. She has been sentenced to 66 months in Prison.

A federal grand jury has indicted the Alabama police office who violently threw to the ground an Indian grandfather visiting his son in the town of Madison, saying he used “unreasonable force“ while acting in uniform

“India’s Daughter”, a rape documentary banned from airing in India received its US premiere at a star-studded event that included actresses Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto.

For the first time the opening prayer for the Idaho state senate was said by a Hindu cleric amid protests by some senators who claimed the United States was a Christian nation and denounced Hinduism, local media reported.

Official figures reveal that the number of British parents who choose foreign surrogates to have their children have risen.

Yet another Hindu temple in the US was vandalized, with several windows broken and the word “fear” painted on its wall. This is the second such incident in America's Washington state this month.

 A US teen has been indicted on charges of joining the ISIS, the terrorist organisation that has captured a large part of Syria and Iraq and has threatened regional peace.