Three Indian-American kids in Spelling Bee finals
June 2, 2012
Washington — Three Indian-American children were the only spellers left in the final championship round of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee at a convention centre outside Washington Thursday night.
The three were among the nine who nailed words derived from Greek, Latin, French, German, Hawaiian and Afrikaans to make the finals as the field of 278 children was narrowed down after several intense rounds of spelling.
Rajat Gupta secretly served Rajaratnam’s hedge fund
June 2, 2012
A prosecution witness in the Rajat Gupta insider trading case has said that he believed that the Indian American secretly worked as an executive for the Galleon Group - a hedge fund run by the convicted billionaire Raj Rajaratam.
Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta's Insider Trading Trial Begins
Indian government savaged over shock GDP figures
June 2, 2012
The Reserve Bank of India has warned that the unimpressive GDP numbers released on Thursday could be a signal for a further decline in the Indian economy. Commentators said that the results were a wake up call for the current government that has been hit by corruptions scandals and infighting.
Pak successfully test fires Hatf-VIII
June 1, 2012
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile Hatf-VIII (Ra’ad) Thursday.
According to an ISPR statement, Ra’ad Missile has the range of over 350 km that can enable Pakistan to achieve strategic standoff capability on land and at Sea.
Attempt to paint India in negative colour on Iran: Nirupama Rao
June 1, 2012
India has said that there is an attempt to paint it in negative colour on the issue of importing oil from Iran, arguing that it needs enormous energy for its 1.2 billion people.
US pressure won’t impact India’s trade with Iran: SM Krishna
June 1, 2012
India made it clear that the US pressure to reduce oil imports from Iran will not impact its "legitimate" trade ties with the "key country" for meeting its energy needs.
Severe Racial Bullying in School Appalls Indian Parents
June 1, 2012
HOUSTON: An Indian parent has reported a recent case of extreme racial bullying of his 11 year old twin boys. Born in the United States, to parents born in India, the boys are American Citizens.
They have borne enormous amounts of bullying and race-based ragging by the school children at the Creekwood Middle School in Kingwood. This case has been covered by the KHOU – http://www.khou.com/home/Kingwood-Bullying-151792805.html
Houston’s Shiv Shakti Mandir Celebrates Ganga Avataran
June 1, 2012
HOUSTON: Ganga Avataran is the manifestation of the River Ganga from the heavens to the earth. It is a commonly held belief that a dip in the Ganges cleanses one of all worldly sins.
The priest Virat Mehta explains the significance of Ganga Avataran.
New York allows headgear for Sikh, Muslim workers
June 1, 2012
Muslim and Sikh employees of New York’s transit system will now be able to wear their religious headgear freely, without attaching a government agency logo to them, in a major legal victory after new uniform rules were imposed following the 9/11 attacks.
Satyamev Jayate: Apologize, doctors tell Aamir Khan
May 31, 2012
Mumbai: An umbrella body of 21 medical institutions Wednesday asked Bollywood star Aamir Khan to apologize for accusing doctors of malpractices in his TV talk show 'Satyamev Jayate'.
Medscape India said the representation of malpractices supposedly perpetrated by doctors was 'rather sad' and Aamir Khan should offer his apologies.
