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Small town girls big time harassment?

So apparently your phone will ring more with a heavy breathing, crazeeee man on the other side if you live in Bhubaneswar or Hyderabad than if you lived in Bombay or Delhi!

According to a TOI report, “One-third of girls across cities reported having received obscene calls or messages” and “77% girls felt eve-teasing was the biggest challenge they faced” outside and “40% girls coped with harassment by ignoring it “ These are the findings from a ‘survey study of 10,000 girls from 10 cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Patna, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Ranchi, Kolkata, Varanasi and Bhubaneswar’.

The revolution of technology and increasing global interface means, anyone can get your phone number and address and no you don’t have to be on Facebook to be a public profile…while on the one hand mobiles are providing ‘over- the- phone’ consultation to patients in rural parts of India and Pakistan. Mobiles are ringing away with lewd and disgusting SMSs that could make life for girls in small towns hell.

Read the full story on the EWomen Blog!

09/22/10
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Obama appoints three Indian-Americans to advisory commission

September 17, 2010

US President Barack Obama has appointed three eminent Indian-Americans to key administration posts as members of his advisory panel on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, a body aimed at increasing participation of the over 16 million-strong community in federal programmes.

"Our nation will be well-served by the skill and dedication these men and women bring to their new roles. I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead," Obama said in a statement after he announced the appointment of members to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.

The three Indian-Americans appointed to the commission are Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, President and CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors; Sunil Puri, President and sole owner of First Rockford Group, Inc, a real estate development firm he founded in 1984; and Amardeep Singh, co-founder and presently Director of Programmes at 'Sikh Coalition', the US' largest Sikh civil rights organisation, the White House said yesterday.

Read the full story on Business Standard

09/20/10
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American academician Dipak Jain named INSEAD Dean

September 20, 2010

Noted Indian-American academician Dipak Jain has been named as Dean of leading international business school INSEAD and will take up his new role in March 2011.

Jain, a Dean Emeritus at Northwestern University's prestigious Kellogg School of Management, will succeed J Frank Brown, who will step down in 2011.

Among Jain's responsibilities would be to look for opportunities to build INSEAD programmes in China and India as the business school focuses on growing its global presence and attracting more students from the developing countries.

Read the full story in Business Standard!

09/20/10
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America’s Perfect Teen 2010 - Anysha Panesar

America’s Perfect Junior Teen, Teen and Miss was held on August 12-15, 2010 in Orlando, FL.

09/20/10
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Tennis Doubles Team Brings India, Pakistan Together

"Stop War, Start Tennis" was the message from two players in Friday's men's doubles final at the US Open.

Rohan Bopanna of India and his partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan say if they can be friends, so can their countries.

Seeded 16th, the so-called "Indo-Pak Express" were up against favourites Bob and Mike Bryan of the US. In the end they lost, but their fans' enthusiasm is undimmed.

The success of the South Asians has been making headlines at home - Qureshi also made it to the mixed doubles final on Thursday, but lost.

Click to read the full story on BBC News!

09/12/10
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Indian wins American science journalism award

WASHINGTON—Pallava Bagla has won the American Geophysical Union’s 2010 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism-News. This award is for his articles on the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers. The first of his two articles "No Sign of Himalayan Melt Down, Indian Report Finds", published in the journal Science, explores dissent among glaciologists regarding the claim by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that Himalayan glaciers would imminently disappear. The second article, "Himalayan Glacier Deadline 'Wrong' ", published by BBC News, reports on an apparent typographical error in the IPCC claim which appears to explain the panel’s controversial, 300-year acceleration of when Himalayan glaciers are expected to vanish.

09/12/10
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Check if you are carrying spice Khus Khus to Middle East countries to avoid arrest for 10 years

Madras High Court has directed the officials of Central Board of Excise and Customs to put up notices at all airports and seaports listing commodities that are commonly used in India but are banned in the Middle East. Justice Prabha Sridevan and Justice M Sathyanarayanan passed the judgment on advocate Nandakumar’s PIL on November 11, 2009, and the petitioner received the copy on November 30.

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Khus-khus gets him 10 years in prison in 1999

09/06/10
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Delhi youth, 2 other Indians in MIT list of world’s top innovators

A young Indian-origin aerospace engineer from the US stumbled upon rural India for the first time in his life. He was so taken up by it, he decided to stay.

Rikin Gandhi, 29, CEO of Delhi-based Digital Green, is one of the three of Indian-origin people who made it to the annual list of young innovators published by the Technological Review magazine. The magazine is put out by an independent company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The list, called TR35, is a collection of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35 in a particular year.

Read the full story in Indian Express!

08/30/10
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