Tag: American

Zaila Avant-garde, 14, became the first African American to win the 90-year-old Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling 'Murraya,' a genus of plants, staying cool after a near miss with a botanical word in a previous round.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, Kyung Cho noticed people sometimes gave him odd looks or asked if he spoke English.

The U.S. government will first give Americans COVID-19 vaccines, but any surplus would be shared with the world, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday after earlier announcing plans to procure an additional 100 million doses.

When Nasa landed its Mars rover Perseverance on the Martian surface, it was an Indian-American handling the controls and landing system. Swati Mohan spearheaded the attitude control and landing system of the Perseverance rover that navigated a particularly difficult touchdown.

October 14 (PTI) - US President Donald Trump has described his presidential challenger Joe Biden as “the single worst candidate in the history of America”, referring to a few recent gaffes of the Democratic leader. Republican incumbent Trump, 74, and challenger Biden, 77, are locked in a close contest for the November 3 elections. “I’m running against the single worst ...

September 17 (The New Nation) - Dr Ruhul Abid, a Bangladeshi-American professor at Brown University, and his non-profit organization HAEFA (Health and Education for All) has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the University of Massachusetts Boston in the US. According to HAEFA website, Dr Ruhul Abid received his MD from Dhaka in Bangladesh and his PhD in ...

Washington, September 10 (Dawn) - A Pakistani-American, Shahid Khan, has emerged as the 66th richest man in the United States in 2020, with a total worth of $7.8 billion. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is number one for the third year in a row, followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates at number two. The Forbes list of 400 richest ...

Los Angeles, November 9 (NIA):  California Attorney General Kamala Devi Harris beat  Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez Tuesday night for a coveted U.S. Senate seat, KABC reported. With this, Democrat Kamala Devi Harris or "Kamala" as she is better known, becomes the first Black Indian Tamil American to win a US Senate seat and the first biracial to be in the Senate. ...