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NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Santa Cruz, CA, August 21, 2026: Alli Renee Singh, a 19-year-old University of California, Santa Cruz student preparing to begin her third year of college, died after a vehicle she was traveling in plunged off a cliff along Santa Cruz’s West Cliff Drive and landed in...
BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Atlanta, GA, August 21, 2026: Diplomacy is often measured in meetings, agreements and official engagements, but its more enduring impact is sometimes found in something less formal: relationships. During his tenure in Atlanta, Consul General of India Ramesh Babu Lakshmanan became known across Georgia not simply for...
BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Atlanta, GA, August 21, 2026: The India American Cultural Association (IACA) marked a major milestone in its community journey with the 30th Annual Festival of India, held on August 15, 2026, at the Gas South Center. Bringing together generations of Indian Americans and friends of the community,...
BY VEENA RAO Cumming, GA, August 21, 2026: Vishal Srivastava, a longtime Forsyth County resident and a 25-year veteran of the data and analytics industry, is running for the Forsyth County Board of Education, District 5, challenging incumbent Mike Valdes, who has served on the board for the past four...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Hyderabad/Austin, August 20, 2026: New York has long set the standard for what a bagel should be. Now, a two-year-old startup from Hyderabad is heading to the city to see whether an India-born bagel can compete on its home turf. Bagel Brigade, founded in Hyderabad in...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Washington, DC, August 20, 2026: An Austin, Texas-based food company is recalling approximately 1,626 pounds of ready-to-eat goat and chicken pickle products that were produced without federal inspection, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Indus Foods LLC, doing business as Gangothri Foods, issued the recall...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Edison, NJ, August 20, 2026: A family picnic at Lake Hopatcong ended in tragedy when 41-year-old Edison resident Kaushik Sharma drowned while paddleboarding, leaving behind his wife and two young children. Sharma died Sunday, August 16, at Hopatcong State Park in Roxbury Township, according to the...
BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Atlanta, GA, August 19, 2026: S3 Gaushala Atlanta officially opened its doors to the community on July 19, 2026, marking the beginning of a new space dedicated to the care and protection of cows and to fostering a spirit of seva, community involvement and respect for traditional...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Seven Indian-American women are among the trailblazers named to Forbes’ 2026 50 Over 50 lists, spanning entrepreneurship, technology, STEM education, finance, philanthropy and the arts. Among this year’s honorees are Ritu Narayan, the entrepreneur behind a $1.7 billion effort to reinvent the American school bus system,...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Washington, DC, August 19, 2026— Green card applicants filing for adjustment of status on or after September 18 will face a broader public charge review under new Department of Homeland Security rules that give immigration officers greater discretion to examine an applicant’s finances, health, education, skills...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT New York, NY, August 18, 2026: : President Donald Trump has thrown his “complete and total endorsement” behind Indian-American Republican Saritha Komatireddy in her bid to unseat New York Attorney General Letitia James, turning an already closely watched statewide race into another front in Trump’s long-running...
BY VINAY MAHESHWARI* Everyone talks about going. Nobody talks about coming back. I’m from Indore, and I’d always had the study abroad dream. Study hard, go abroad, make your parents proud. So that’s what I did. Left at 18 for Philadelphia, didn’t know a single person there, and ended up...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT New York, NY, August 17, 2026: Entrepreneur Vishal Garg, who became a symbol of corporate ruthlessness after laying off about 900 employees in a brief Zoom call in 2021, has now found himself on the other side of a high-profile firing. Garg, founder of digital mortgage...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Greenville, SC, August 17, 2026: A 24-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly driving recklessly through a barricaded area in downtown Greenville where the city’s India Day celebration had taken place earlier Saturday, according to police. The Greenville Police Department identified the driver as Bailey McKenzi Brokamp,...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT San Diego, CA, August 16, 2026: Fifteen-year-old Indian-American tennis standout Shristi Selvan capped a remarkable run at the USTA Billie Jean King Girls’ 16s National Championships Saturday, defeating fellow Indian-American teenager Aarini Bhattacharya in a hard-fought three-set final to claim the national title. Selvan, the tournament’s...
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Austin, TX, August 16, 2026: A software engineer working in Austin, Texas, has been arrested in India after investigators accused him of orchestrating an extraordinary campaign of more than 1,500 hoax bomb-threat emails that targeted airports, educational institutions, government offices and prominent individuals across the country....
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Los Angeles, CA, August 15, 2026: Indian-born jazz guitarist, composer and educator Pritesh Walia has been released on bond after spending 14 days in immigration detention, he announced in an emotional video posted on Instagram. “I’m home,” Walia wrote in the caption accompanying the video, in...
