Indian-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry wins 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

NORMAN, OKLA. – An international jury representing nine countries selected critically acclaimed Indian-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry as the 2012 laureate of the $50,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, the Neustadt family and the international magazine World Literature Today. The choice was made during deliberations Sept. 29 on the OU Norman campus.

10/12/11
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Bioenergy Scientist Suresh Babu Receives Don Klass Award for Excellence

Chicago -- Dr. Suresh Babu was presented with the Don Klass Award for Excellence in Thermochemical Conversion Science by Gas Technology Institute (GTI) to recognize his pioneering and innovative contributions in the field of bioenergy. He received the award at a tcbiomass2011 dinner event held at the Art Institute of Chicago.

10/11/11
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Ghazal King Jagjit Singh Passes Away

‘Ghazal King’ Jagjit Singh, 70, died Monday of a brain hemorrhage in Mumbai, after a 40-year career that included dozens of albums and performances in hundreds of performances India, Pakistan and around the globe.

10/11/11
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Violence Against Women - ACT or NOT TO ACT!

By Sanjukta Chaudhuri & Shani Kapoor

As we write this article we have been thinking what to call it, whether to name it violence against women (VAW) or not. It is something about this phrase, which makes a reader instantly turn a blind eye to its existence. Actually, it can be called ‘the battered syndrome’, whereby a reader consciously chooses not to read, considers it a battered topic, which ironically has become as battered as perhaps the lives of women expounded in it. Thus a topic so sensitive and socially relevant ends up losing the sensitivity of the very people listening, seeing and reading about it.

10/10/11
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Many Indians among 111 charged in biggest US credit card fraud

Friday, October 7 : Bank Tellers, Store Employees And Restaurant Workers Allegedly Skimmed Customers’ Personal I.D.; Shoppers Allegedly Sent On Nationwide Shopping Sprees With Counterfeit Credit Cards To Buy High-End Goods That Were Later Fenced; Fake Cards Allegedly Used to Purchase Tickets and Board Airplanes

10/08/11
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Clinton Global Initiative Features Educate Girls Globally at the 2011 Annual Meeting

NEW YORK -- Over the past ten years, Educate Girls Globally (EGG) has tested and developed a girls' education model that has proven effective in government schools in rural Rajasthan, India, where it will soon impact over 4,500 schools, reaching 260,000 girls (or 590,000 children including boys).

10/07/11
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2011 Youth Honoree Neha Gupta - World of Children

Neha Gupta, an Indian-American teen from Pennsylvania, was recently announced 2011 World of Children Award recipient for her extraordinary success in providing some of the world’s impoverished orphans with lifesaving care.

10/07/11
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Indian-American Isha Jain Among Glamour Magazine’s Top 10 College Women

Beauty, talent, and brains reign supreme for Indian-American Isha H. Jain who made Glamour Magazine’s list of "Top 10 College Women" for her lifelong work in the biological fields and involvement in Harvard's National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science.  Jain is a senior at Harvard.

10/06/11
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Sigmatech provides $1 million gift to UAHuntsville to create global understanding eminent scholar

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Sigmatech has provided a $1 million endowment for the establishment of an eminent scholar chair to the Department of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

10/06/11
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Three Indian-Americans Honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Three Indian-Americans are among 94 scientists receiving Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

10/06/11
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