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New York: Six persons, including two Indian Americans and a Sri Lanka-born billionaire, have been arrested in connection with the largest hedge fund insider-trading ever.Besides Tamil-origin Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of Galleon Group, the two Indian Ame...
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Atlanta: Hasmukh Patel, 53, of McDonough, Georgia, was sentenced on October 20 by United States District Judge Clarence Cooper on charges of accepting a $100,000 bribe, bringing aliens into the United States illegally, and unauthorizing access of a law en...
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La Grange Park, IL: The Lowrey Company, a leading manufacturer of digital keyboards for the recreational player, will launch its newest product, “Holiday Classic The Bollywood Edition” through a special Bollywood concert on November 6. The conce...
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By A Correspondent
San francisco, CA: It’s not quite a Slumdog Millionaire story: Vivek Agrawal is a Stanford grad, who lives in a Pacific Heights flat and spends his days working as a product manager at a tech start-up. But the 24-year-old has just la...
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Washington, DC: A member of the US House of Representatives has hailed the work of two Indian American philanthropist brothers on receiving Northern Virginia Community Foundation’s community leader award for 2009. Sudhakar V. Shenoy and Suresh V. Shenoy...
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By J.V. Lakshmana Rao
Chicago: The Ramayana is a great epic of ancient India that is relevant not only to the people of the sub-continent, but also to the whole world. It is relevant to all times — past, present and future. It is timeless. The Ramayana...
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A Letter From Grandpa
By Niranjan Shah
My dear Nikita and Sanjna:
This letter is again in response to Lisa Miller’s article We are all Hindus now in Newsweek of August 24-31, 2009, and an article in Times of India, Mumbai, India of Octobe...
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Family Matters
By Sam George
This week we begin a new series on intercultural marriages. Indian Americans have the fastest growth rate of interracial and interfaith marriages among all ethnic communities in the United States,...
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Business Matter
By Manish Shah
While micro finance is hailed as a vehicle for the world’s poor to climb out of poverty, micro-insurance is expected to help them from falling back into poverty. The International Labor Organization (ILO) and Bill an...
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Chicago: Over 2,500 participated in the Chicago Partner-ship Walk on October 11, an event held annually in major cities across the US. The walk was an initiative of Aga Khan Foundation USA (AKFUSA) to raise awareness and funds to alleviate global povert...
