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06/26/2024

Indian-American man punched in face in Oklahoma, dies, suspect arrested

06/15/2024

Pune based PNG Jewellers store looted in California 🇺🇸

03/29/2024

VIDEO: Racist Attack In Canada On Pizza Delivery Agent - 'Stupid Brown Guy'

10/13/2022

Yesterday Desai Foundation hosted ‘Diwali on the Hudson’ attracting tristate area’s Indian American movers and shakers. Indian American pop artist Rhea Raj, performed her latest release “Outside.”

All funds raised will go directly to long-term COVID relief efforts in rural India. This year’s Diwali bash coincides with the foundation’s 25th anniversary of working on empowering children in rural India, particularly in the areas of livelihood, health, and menstrual equity.

The annual event celebrating the festival of lights is the foundation’s effort to bring in the community to get involved with their work.

05/09/2022

From enjoying a stroll to feasting on pancake in , loved-up pictures of and

05/06/2022

Dilip Chauhan appointed to New York City Office of International Affairs -

04/27/2022

N.J. Governor appoints Dr. Nimisha Shukla to State Board of Medical Examiners

04/27/2022

2022 summary!

03/29/2022

FedEx names Raj Subramaniam as CEO, replacing founder Fred Smith

03/17/2022

President Joe Biden has appointed Indian American entrepreneur Sunil Puri as a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts (PACA). Members of the committee “are civic and cultural leaders who are selected by the President of the United States to serve as representatives in their own communities for the Kennedy Center,” according to a White House press release announcing the appointments last week.

01/22/2022

Four individuals believed to be Indian nationals – a man, woman, teenager, and baby- have been found frozen to death just north of the U.S. border in Canada. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) found the deceased in a field near Emerson, Manitoba, on Wednesday, after they were alerted by their counterparts in the U.S.

4 Gujarati speaking Indian citizens including a baby die in extreme Manitoba cold on Canada side of the Canada-U.S. border during the trek from Canada to U.S. 2 more were hospitalized. 1 of them likely required partial amputation of a hand from frostbite. 2 of the group nabbed on the U.S. side

01/05/2022

Sam Joshi sworn in as youngest and first Indian-American mayor of Edison, NJ

12/24/2021

US State Department decides to temporarily do away with an in-person requirement for candidates applying for work visas like the , , and given concerns. |

12/14/2021

Gautam Raghavan, a gay Indian-American, will be the highest-ranking out member of the White House staff when he advances to director of the Office of Presidential Personnel.

12/09/2021

Indian American Ravi Chaudhary named Air Force Assistant Secretary

12/05/2021

Eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize for the "highly original work" in Operator Theory by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

Along with Prof. Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, the two other awardees are Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.

12/05/2021

Six Indian Americans have been named in Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ list 2022 under the Science and Consumer Technology categories.

The recently-released Forbes list marks the 10th anniversary of the Forbes Under 30 class, which is set to define the next decade — and beyond, it noted.

Three were named in the Science category in the list released December 1. While three have been named in the Consumer Technology category.

The first one named in Science is Srijan Kumar, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. According to Forbes, Kumar is working to make the internet safer. He is into data science and machine learning solutions to combat malicious actors like fraudsters and troll armies. Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce platform, has used his research. His research has also influenced Twitter’s Birdwatch platform.

The second one named in the Science category is Pranav Rajpurkar, an assistant professor at Harvard. Rajpurkar leads a lab focused on artificial intelligence applications for health, including deep learning algorithms for reading chest X-rays and electrocardiograms that can make diagnoses on par with humans, and his research has more than 10,000 citations along with co-hosting the AI Health Podcast, noted Forbes.

Shruti Rijhwani, a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, has also been named in the Science category. Rijhwani’s work is on developing natural language processing technologies to help communities revitalize endangered languages. According to UNESCO, at least 40% of the world’s 7,000 languages as endangered. Rijhwani’s algorithms help extract text from non-digitized books and handwritten documents and make them accessible online.

Tulsee Doshi is the first one named in the category of Consumer Technology. Doshi studied AI at Stanford before joining Google, where she’s spearheaded the launch of more than 30 products that help make the company’s AI-based initiatives safer and more inclusive. Alongside Engineering VP Marian Croak, Doshi established and now leads an internal organization of more than 100 AI researchers and engineers, noted Forbes.

Uttara Sivaram has also been named on the list. She pulls off a tricky balancing act, said Forbes. As Uber’s Global Head of Privacy & Security Policy, she guards the $73 billion ride-hailing company’s ever-moving trove of rider and driver information. In the meantime, she must partner with local governments and law enforcement to safely manage data that influence traffic plans, infrastructure and public safety. Before Uber, the Stanford grad was a product manager for Bidgely, a software maker for utilities.

Sid Yadav is the final one who made his way to the list. In January 2020, Yadav, previously VP of Product at edtech Teachable, founded Circle to give creators a single place to manage their brands and fanbases. Since then, Circle has signed up more than 2 million users, including Bozoma Saint John and Brendon Burchard and more than 4,000 businesses paying $39 to $399 for access.

12/02/2021

More than 600,000 of them changed their citizenship between 2017 and 2021, Nityananda Rai, the country’s junior home minister, told the Lok Sabha of parliament yesterday (Nov. 30). India does not offer dual citizenship yet, and people seeking citizenship in other countries must give up their Indian passports as per law.

These data are in tandem with the increase in the number of Overseas citizens of India (OCI) cards the government has issued since the policy was launched in 2006. The foreign ministry’s website puts that figure at 1.3 million as of May 2013. Recent estimates, though, suggest there are six million OCI cardholders across the world.

An OCI card is issued to people of Indian origin for ease of travel and other administrative hurdles in India after having given up their Indian passports. Many of them may have even applied for the card long after switching passports.

12/02/2021

"The number of immigrants under the H1-B visa program holding high-tech jobs dropped the most in at least a decade this year in the U.S. amid travel and visa restrictions, even as job openings in the industry reached record highs.

Foreign engineering and mathematics workers on H-1B visas fell 12.6% in the fiscal year ending September 2021 compared to the previous year, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Labor."

11/30/2021

Kerala Girl shot Dead: Mariam Susan Mathew, a 19-year-old Kerala girl, was shot dead in Montgomery, the capital of Alabama in the United States after bullets from the upper floor allegedly pierced through the ceiling and killed her. She was asleep in her house when this happened.

11/29/2021

Twitter CEO has resigned, IIT Bombay graduate Parag Agarwal named new Twitter CEO.

11/27/2021

India from Monday allowed individual tourist travel and is issuing the first five lakh foreign tourist visas free of cost. The newly-issued tourist/e-tourist visa will be a single entry visa for 30 days.

According to an advisory on the website of the Indian Consulate here, the existing valid e-Tourist Visa/regular paper Tourist Visa issued before October 6, 2021, will continue to remain suspended and travel on such visas will not be permitted.

Foreign nationals traveling individually will be allowed into the country only through Vande Bharat Mission, Air Bubble Scheme or by any scheduled/non-scheduled commercial flight allowed by the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation.

A single entry e-tourist visa will be valid for a stay up to 30 days.

Existing valid e-tourist visas issued before October 6, 2021, will remain suspended and travel on such visas will not be permitted.

11/25/2021

wants quick restoration of normal air services with India as lack of adequate flights is posing difficulties for travelers and has led to a spike in air fares, UAE Ahmed AlBanna said

11/24/2021

US return Fakiraa Burger wala aka Parthiv Thakkar, the talk of the town at IIM- Ahmedabad

Parthiv Thakkar, famously associated with ‘Faakira’s Burger’ is rapidly creating a buzz in the streets of Ahmedabad. Set out with his own, 30-year-old Maruti 800 and loaded with the goodness of a mix of tastes from Indian street food and Mexican and American flavors, Thakkars’ menu will tickle your tastebuds.

Thakkar has always admired the art of cooking. He moved to the States and the United Kingdom, spending ten years abroad and practicing music professionally. His work has always made him go-rounds of hobnobbing pubs and retro-bars and he picked up some mouth-watering recipes on his sleeves.

In 2020, Parthivs’ wife got diagnosed with breast cancer which was particularly a tough time for him and his family. On his return to his land, the Ahemdabad man was tangled up between intensifying medical expenses and pandemic chaos, Thakkars’ daughter suggested he brings his cooking expertise to the people of Ahmedabad.

Burgers, Mexican burritos, tacos, and a variety of sandwiches to choose from, the menu is cataloged with flavors that you won’t find on the streets of Ahmedabad. Fakiraas’ Burger has become one relished spot for foodies and youngsters around IIM. Thakkar says that his menu is one small and specialized one with an affordable price chart. He keeps his stall running till 11 pm; he adds that even the less footfall isn’t bothersome till he keeps delivering authentic and quality food to his customers. Everyday 'Farikaa Burger' can sell out about 100 buns apart from other savories on his menu.

Parthiv further plans to move from his refurbished and vintage Maruti 800 to a cafeteria named ‘ Fakiraa’s Café. Next time you are around IIM Ahmedabad, don’t forget to stop by at the Fakiraas’ Burger.

Written by:
Shristi Chatterjee

11/22/2021

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