Since a suit was filed against Cisco, tech companies have been called on to change their own policies to help fill the void and deter casteism.

California has alleged that caste biases had travelled to the US tech industry, where Indians are the largest pool of immigrant workers.

Social media services including Twitter in recent years have begun labelling accounts of state broadcasters and news websites to note that the organisations are government-backed.

According to the lawsuit, Google CEO Sundar Pichai in 2019 was warned that describing the company's incognito browsing mode as "private" was problematic.

Unless users opt out, the default route will be the one estimated to generate the lowest carbon emissions if comparable options take about the same time.

Following Reuters's report that it had been removed, the Robinhood Stock Traders group was restored.

About 72% of Indian-American registered voters plan to back Biden, according to a September survey by Carnegie Endowment.

South Asian Biden supporters and nonpartisan activists worry that misinformation on WhatsApp will affect turnout and support.

Google was accused in the long-anticipated lawsuit filed on Tuesday of harming competition in internet search advertising that put its search tool front and centre whenever consumers browsed the web.

Anthony Levandowski stole a trade secret from Google related to self-driving cars months before becoming the head of Uber Technologies Inc's rival unit.

Cisco Systems Inc is accused of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to be harassed by two managers because he was from a lower Indian caste than them.

Alphabet, which owns more than a dozen companies including self-driving car technology business Waymo and health care software company Verily, emerged in 2015 as part of a restructuring of Google.

It was the latest in a string of mass shootings in the US in recent years.