In an unprecedented act of philanthropy to an American academic institution, the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has given a $2 million grant to the University of Pennsylvania's Centere for the Advanced Study of India, headed by Devesh Kapur, to support its research on international migration from India.This is the first time the ministry has ever awarded an empirical research grant of this magnitude to an academic institution outside India.
In an unprecedented act of philanthropy to an American academic institution, the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has given a $2 million grant to the University of Pennsylvania's Centre for the Advanced Study of India, headed by Devesh Kapur to support its research on international migration from India.
Jaisankar Marimuthu, who was extradited to the US for trial, pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, and to one count of aggravated identity theft before US District Magistrate Judge FA Gossett III in Omaha, Nebraska.
Pointing out that the Indian Diaspora is at major risk from diabetes, heart disease and other chronic problems, Ahuja, a registered dietician, says greater attention is needed for increasing awareness, promoting prevention and managing chronic diseases.
At a brief ceremony at India's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday, Indian Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri handed the check for $5 million and documentation relating to the transfer of money to Ambassador Leo Merores, permanent representative of Haiti to the UN.
'The ICCR, which is the primary instrument of the Government of India for cultural diplomacy, has decided to organize an India festival in the US in recognition of the fact that Indo-US relationship has become a very vibrant one, which is extremely important for us. Cultural diplomacy must commensurate with the vibrancy of the evolving bilateral relationship,' Gupta said.
A team of researchers, including a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed what is called a "cocktail" of extremely tiny particles that work in concert in the bloodstream to locate, stick and kill cancerous tumors.
Pratham USA, which aims to educate India's underprivileged children through awareness programs about illiteracy, was awarded the 2010 Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership last week.
A 65-year-old Indian-Amercan doctor, who went to Haiti to attend an IMA World Health's meeting two days before the killer earthquake, had a miraculous escape from beneath tons of rubble where she was buried for 50 hours in a collapsed Port-au-Prince hotel. A slightly-bruised but traumatized Sarla Chand came back home to Teaneck, New Jersey,on Saturday night.
Less than a week after he was sworn in as head of the United States Agency for International Development, Dr Rajiv Shah sprang into the national limelight when President Barack Obama designated him as the government's chief disaster coordinator for Haiti.
The stamp is tentatively planned to go on sale nationwide August 26, 2010, on the birthday of Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Prize in 1979 for humanitarian work.
"About 30 minutes before landing, we were asked to fasten our seat belts after we heard a sudden bang, resembling a Diwali bomb kind of sound, but not a pataka (fire-cracker)," Shelly Kakar who along with her husband, was seated four rows ahead of the alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said.
When Alan Johnson, associate professor of English in the Idaho State University in United States, goes to India on a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture and study at the University of Mumbai next year, it will be yet another emotional reunion with a country where he was born to American missionary parents.
The number of bias-related incidents against Muslims in the United States of America increased in 2008, although hate crimes against the community recorded a fall, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said on Thursday in a report.
Graduate students from India, who have traditionally dominated the international students category in American schools, have begun shunning US educational institutions.
India remains the leading place of origin of international students in the United States for the eighth year in a row, a report said on Monday.According to the Open Doors report released on Monday, Indian students' number in 2008-09 increased by one per cent, to reach 103,260. Students from China, once again the second leading sender, increased by 21 per cent to a total of 98,510.
'The Indian economy is at a crossroads,' says Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, a University Professor at Columbia University and senior adviser to the Institute.
A few years after the World War II that left many orphaned and shelterless in Europe and Asia, the wives of the UN staff in New York set up a group to help the hapless children, sewing and knitting sweaters for therm. That led to the formation of United Nations Women's Guild in 1948.
Ambassador Robert Blake, assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, on Tuesday said that the Indo-Pakistan ties would improve if the suspects of the Mumbai attack are tried and convicted by Islamabad.
The governor said that the economic development mission would be an outstanding opportunity for Alabama companies to meet their customers and to find new ones.
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