Indian-American Community News
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The Yoga Day observance spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations headquarters in New York set a Guinness World Record for most nationalities in a yoga session: people of 135 countries participated in the historic event. Continue reading Prime Minister Modi’s Yoga Day event at UN sets world record
In what promises to be a stunning sight, awe-inspiring images of Hindu deity, Lord Ram, and his Ayodhya temple will be on full display in the iconic Times Square of New York on August 5, from dawn to dusk. Continue reading Images of Lord Ram and Ayodhya temple to beam in New York’s Times Square on August 5
To honor members of the Sikh and larger Punjabi community, New York City Council has approved the renaming of certain thoroughfares in Queens to ‘Gurdwara Street’ and ‘Punjab Avenue’. Continue reading New York City Council approves bill naming major thoroughfares as ‘Gurdwara Street’ and ‘Punjab Avenue’
Mistaking Rajpreet Heir, a Sikh American woman, for a Muslim from the Middle East, a white man hurled expletives while telling her to go back to Lebanon. Continue reading Sikh American woman harassed on NYC Subway, told to go back to Lebanon