Jayapal, 52, joins more than half a dozen Democratic lawmakers, including the legendary Congressman John Lewis, who will give a miss to the January 30 event.
Leading Indian American tax consultant and certified public accountant Neeraj Bhatia has been conferred with the prestigious Hind Rattan Award for 2018.
The joint report - released by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security - does not give a country-wise breakup of these foreign-born individuals involved in terrorism related cases inside the US.
Reading out a policy statement on the government's foreign policy contours and the security situation in Pakistan in the National Assembly on Monday, Khurram DastagirKhan said he regretted that the US downplayed India's aggressive posturing along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary, the Dawn reported today.
Two Indian-Americans have been charged with allegedly defrauding Connecticut of about USD 5.8 million in taxes due on tobacco products imported into the State, a US attorney has said.
The Indian-American foster father of Sherin Mathews, a three-year-old Indian girl whose body was found in a culvert near their suburban Dallas home in mysterious circumstances last October, was today indicted for capital murder by a grand jury.