Jan 25 2012.JPG "Indian Americans lauds the Honorable Zach Carter")
Samir Chopra, President - Elect of Indian Americans of New York, recently co hosted a reception in New York City in honor of Zach Carter. Mr. Carter serves on the Board of Directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies and on the Board of Cablevision. As a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys, he played a prominent role in the development of Department of Ju...
Jan 24 2012
A wave of charged particles from an intense solar storm is raising alerts about airline flights and satellite operations — and raising the prospect of stunning auroral displays.
The storm began when a powerful solar flare erupted on the sun Monday, blasting a stream of charged particles toward our planet. This electromagnetic burst — called a coronal mass ejection, or CME — started hitting...
Jan 24 2012
Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.
The Web giant announced Tuesday it is planning to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.
Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to st...
Jan 23 2012
India has condemned a comment by US comedian Jay Leno on the holiest Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple of Amritsar.
A Leno skit showed the temple as the summer home of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Mr Romney has faced taxation questions over his huge wealth and many Sikhs are angry the temple has been depicted as a place for the rich.
The Sikh community has launched an ...
Jan 23 2012
There was no let off in the cold wave in Kashmir with Leh town in Ladakh region experiencing its coldest night of the season as the mercury plunged to 22.2 degrees below the freezing point.
The minimum temperature in Leh town settled at minus 22.2 degrees Celsius, which is the lowest of this winter so far, a MeT official said.
Nearby Kargil district town also an extreme low of minus 20 ...
Jan 23 2012
డల్లాస్ లో సంక్రాంతి పర్వ దినాన -- సాహిత్య వేదిక నెల నెలా తెలుగు వెన&#...
Jan 19 2012
LAUNCH OF INDIA's first Stereoscopic 3D Movie on Swami Vivekananda at Vivekananda House, Chennai
Vivekananda house at Chennai, India - housing a cultural heritage museum in memory of Swami Vivekananda, launched India's first Stereoscopic 3D short movie on Vivekananda and his message to the youth.The first movie clip is about lecture of Swami Vivekananda addressed to the youth titled "My Me...
Jan 18 2012
Pakistan has rejected U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman's request to visit the country, a senior official said today.
The decision highlights the increased tensions between the uneasy allies.
Pakistan did not elaborate on its reasons.
A senior government official, who declined to be named, said: 'Ambassador Grossman asked to visit Pakistan but we conveyed to him that it was not possib...
Jan 18 2012
Reference librarians are on high alert Wednesday as Wikipedia, the 6th biggest website on Earth, is offline along with thousands of smaller websites.
The “free encyclopedia anyone can edit” is among the many websites joining an online revolt against two anti-piracy bills currently being considered by Congress.
Other sites joining the protest Wednesday include Reddit, Wordpress, MoveOn, ...
Jan 17 2012
NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: More than 200 Indian nationals have been rescued, while one Indian crew member is still missing from the wrecked Italian luxury liner, which ran aground off an Italian island last Friday.
“All of them have been rescued...only one Indian crew member Rebello Russell Terrance is missing and has not been traced yet,” External Affairs Minister S M Krishna told reporters in ...
Jan 09 2012
BHUBANESHWAR: From grandma's home remedies for cough, cold and other ailments, 'tulsi' ( Indian Basil) is now being tested by Indian scientists for treating people exposed to harmful radiations and initial tests have shown some positive results.
Scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have developed a tulsi-based herbal medicine for treating people exp...
Jan 09 2012
JAIPUR: Reminding non-resident Indians of the constitutional provision that allows them to vote in Indian elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday told a gathering of the diaspora from 60 countries that the government had issued notification for registration of overseas voters. In other words, NRIs can vote in the upcoming assembly elections in five states.
"The government...
Jan 09 2012
Atlanta,GA: Sanjay Lulla a software engineer, 45 years from Morrisville, NC passed away in a road accident .Sanjay Lulla hails from Hyderabad, A.P
TANA TEAM SQUARE Chairman Anjaiah chowdary Lavu, Executive Vice President Mohan Nannapaneni, Jaysekhar Talluri, Foundation Secretary coordinated the efforts to send the remains to Hyderabad.
TANA, a dedicated community organization ...
Jan 09 2012
Chief Ministers of several states, including Gujarat, on Monday wooed more investments from overseas Indians by flaunting developmental initiatives launched by their respective governments and concessions offered to entrepreneurs.
The leaders also assured the Non-Resident Indians and Persons of Indian Origin at the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here that their states would be more than will...
Jan 08 2012
New Delhi: A relentless cold wave is sweeping through north India, leaving people shivering and desperately hoping for some respite. There has been heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. And the Meteorological Department has predicted more snowfall in these states.
The mercury has dipped to minus 5.5 degrees in Srinagar and minus 16 degrees i...
Jan 06 2012
New Delhi: A pro-government Chinese daily has come down heavily against India over the recent incidents involving traders. 'The Global Times' claims that Indian diplomat S Balachandran who fainted in a Shanghai court on Saturday tried to "secretly" take away two detained Indian nationals under the pretence of going to the toilet.
The daily also refuted reports of Balachandran being ...
Oct 20 2011
Samir Chopra, President – Elect of Indian Americans of New York, recently honored at a ceremony at the La Bottega restaurant in New York the Honorable Jerome Murphy for Supreme Court. Judge Jerome Murphy is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, former Justice for Island Park and a distinguished graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the proud father o...
Nov 02 2010
Annakut celebration at ‘Haridham’-YDS of NJ
The New Year Day and ‘Annakut’ celebration has its own unique importance in the Hindu culture, but its celebration at ‘Haridham ‘ - YDS of NJ this year was more than just festivity. It radiated divinity. These are the days when the almighty God and god-realized saints incarnate themselves as the givers of eternal joy for the entire hu...
Jul 21 2010
Like all the years in the past, Yogi Divine Society (YDS) of NJ celebrated “Guru Poornima” with great enthusiasm
at the Ukrainian Hall in Somerset, NJ. What else could be more blissful that the presence of Guru himself on
such an auspicious occasion. The divine presence of H.D.H Hariprasad Swamiji added enormous reverence, zeal
and joy to the celebration.
The start of the celebrations was...
May 08 2010
DR. Parveen Chopra, the first Asian-American, awarded prestigious LIBERTY BELL AWARD
Supreme Court justice Hon. Ira Warshawsky, Chair of the Law Day 2010 Committee and Hon. Judge Susan Katz – Richman conferred upon Dr. Praveen Chopra the Liberty Bell Award. This award was given at the Nassau County Bar Associations’ annual function focusing on enduring traditions and emerging challe...
Apr 18 2010
Raamnavmi and Hari Jayanti, 2010 at Haridham Temple, NJ
The Birth of Lord Rama, Lord Swaminarayan’s manifestation, P.P. Yogiji Maharaj’s initiation as a
Saint and the 30th anniversary of ‘Haridham’ temple in Sokhada, Gujarat all concur on the
auspicious day of Ramnavmi. The Hindu Swaminarayan Temple and Cultural Center ‘Haridham’
in Parsippany NJ celebrated these four confocal events with...
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