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INDIAN AMERICAN CALIFORNIA AG KAMALA HARRIS FILES OFFICIAL PAPERWORK FOR SENATE BID

Feb 25, 2016 - 5:18 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

Feb 24: California Attorney General Indian American Kamala Harris is running for Senate, a seat she has been campaigning for more than a year. “We got in early, we’ve been running hard, and this makes […]

Indian American led research introduces ‘pause button’ for boiling

Feb 25, 2016 - 5:17 pm EST @theindpanorama 0

Feb 24: In a first of its kind research, an Indian American led team at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University have essentially hit the pause button on boiling. Using a focused […]

K P Yohannan (Courtesy of his official website)

Indian American charged with running fraudulent charity

Feb 25, 2016 - 12:37 pm EST @theindpanorama 0

A Kerala-born Indian-American missionary, who founded and runs Gospel for Asia — one of the largest U.S.-based Christian mission agencies — has been charged with fraudulently soliciting hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable donations, and misdirecting […]

Indian American Priya Harjani Named Deputy General Counsel at Northwestern University

Feb 25, 2016 - 11:22 am EST @theindpanorama 0

Feb 25: Indian American Attorney Priya J. Harjani, currently senior associate general counsel at Northwestern University, has been promoted to deputy general counsel for the University, effective March 1, Philip Harris, Northwestern’s vice president and […]

Indian American Vinod Khosla Locked In USD 30 Million Real Estate Battle

Feb 25, 2016 - 12:47 am EST @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK: A prominent Indian-American billionaire is locked in a real estate battle with the State of California after he sought USD 30 million for reallowing public access to a stretch of beach he owns, […]

Indian Man Who Went Missing From Daughter’s Wedding In LA Found Dead

Feb 25, 2016 - 12:45 am EST @theindpanorama 1

LOS ANGELES: The body of a 55-year-old Indian man, who was on a visit to the US has been found in a waterway, 10-days after he walked away from his daughter’s wedding reception, a media […]

Indian American researchers part of team to achieve passive Wi-Fi at 10,000 times less power

Feb 25, 2016 - 12:36 am EST @theindpanorama 1

In an effort to curb battery drainage as you use Wi-Fi to play games or watch movies, a team of engineers including Indian-origin researchers has demonstrated that it is possible to generate Wi-Fi transmissions using […]

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Will Indian-Americans get their first American Idol in Sonika Vaid?

Feb 24, 2016 - 7:16 pm EST @theindpanorama 1

Feb 24: Indian-American community has pinned all their hopes with Sonika Vaid who might become the first Indian-American to become the American Idol this season. This week Vaid sang the Celine Dion classic, “I Surrender” […]

Obama is the right man at the right time

Six Indian American Scientists to be honored by Barack Obama

Feb 21, 2016 - 8:35 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

WASHINGTON: Six Indian-Americans are among a talented group of 106 scientists and engineers who will be honoured by US President Barack Obama with a prestigious award, the highest US government prize for young independent researchers. The […]

Ambassador Arun Singh Inaugurates Curtain Raiser for 34th Annual AAPI Convention

Feb 19, 2016 - 10:50 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Ambassador Arun Singh, India’s envoy to the United States, inaugurated the curtain raiser for the 34th annual convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) during a solemn […]

Winners of Grand Prize at the 2016 Y-Prize Competition

University of Penn Team Wins 2016 Y-Prize Contest

Feb 19, 2016 - 10:45 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

NEW YORK (TIP): The University of Pennsylvania recently announced that the student team ‘Fermento’ of the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science won the Grand Prize at the 2016 Y-Prize Competition. […]

A rookie team, Hicksville Middle School's Meteorites has reached the FIRST LEGO Robotics Competition. Their mentor Shiv Chopra (front row, extreme right) is President of Hicksville High School's robotics program.

Hicksville Middle School team reaches Robotics competition finals

Feb 19, 2016 - 10:43 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): Hicksville Middle School’s Meteorites robotics created last year has made tremendous progress, reaching the finals in the FIRST LEGO Robotics Competition. The South Asian dominated team comprises: Somya Mehta, Sejal Gupta, Rishika […]

Ambassador Riva Ganguly Das will soon take over as India’s Consul General in New York. She succeeds Ambassador Dnyaneshwar M Mulay

Mrs. Riva Ganguly Das to succeed Dnyaneshwar Mulay as Consul General of India in New York

Feb 19, 2016 - 10:37 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

NEW YORK (TIP): Mrs. Riva Ganguli Das, presently Ambassador to Romania, Albania and Maldova has been named to succeed Ambassador Dnyaneshwar M Mulay who has been moved to External Affairs Ministry where he will head […]

Ambassador Dnyaneshwar M Mulay speaks at the farewell to him organized at the Indian Consulate on February 14

Indian community showers accolades on outgoing Consul General Mulay

Feb 19, 2016 - 10:35 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

NEW YORK CITY (TIP): The Indian community in New York, headed by GOPIO in collaboration with the Consulate of India organized a get together to bid farewell to the Consul General, Ambassador Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay […]

Indian-American Neel Kashkari Calls For Breaking Up Big Banks

Feb 18, 2016 - 4:24 pm EST @theindpanorama 1

WASHINGTON: Noting that the biggest banks continue to pose a significant risk to the US economy, Indian- American top federal bank official Neel Kashkari has called for breaking them into smaller ones. “I believe the […]

Indian-Origin Facebook India chief Kirthiga Reddy steps down, Headed back to US

Feb 16, 2016 - 4:06 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

Two days after closing down its controversy-ridden Free Basics programme, Facebook India Managing Director Kirthiga Reddy stepped down from her current role and will relocate back to the US. In a Facebook post, Reddy says […]

Sri Srinivasan (L), Kamala Harris (C), and Neal Katyal (R)

3 Indian-Americans Could Be US Supreme Court Judge Nominees

Feb 16, 2016 - 3:45 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

WASHINGTON: Three Indian-American legal luminaries may be among the possible candidates whom US President Barack Obama could nominate as a Supreme Court judge following the sudden death of conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia. Within hours of […]

Ishaan Patel, An Indian American Student, Honored For His Charity Work

Feb 16, 2016 - 3:17 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

A 13-year-old Indian-American boy has been honoured here in the US for his efforts to improve access to education for underprivileged students in America and around the world through his charity organisation. Ishaan Patel, founder […]

Ashutosh Tiwari, associate professor at the University of Utah in US.

Team led by an Indian-origin scientist discover New semiconducting material for faster computers, smartphones

Feb 16, 2016 - 3:10 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

WASHINGTON: A team led by an Indian-origin scientist in US has discovered a new kind of 2D semiconducting material for electronics that opens the door for much speedier computers and smartphones that consume a lot less power. The semiconductor, […]

Puneet Bhatla, M.D.,- NYU Langone School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics

Scientists, including an Indian American have developed a computer model to predict right-size heart valves

Feb 16, 2016 - 3:04 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have developed computer simulations to determine if a pulmonary valve will fit an individual’s heart, even before the surgery takes place. Children born with a certain congenital heart defect often […]

Obama appoints Indian American Ranvir Trehan as Kennedy Centre trustee

Feb 14, 2016 - 12:14 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

Washington: US President Barack Obama is set to appoint an Indian American philanthropist to a key administration post at the prestigious John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. Ranvir Trehan, who holds a degree […]

Indian American Sri Srinivasan could be Scalia’s possible replacement in the US Supreme Court

Feb 13, 2016 - 8:57 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

Indian American Judge Sri Srinivasan name is already floating in the top corridors of the White House as the next Supreme Court Justice, as per meadia reports. The 48 year old Indian-origin American citizen could be the first Indian […]

Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's Minister for Communications and Information Technology speaking at the meet and greet organized by OFBJP in Edison, NJ on February 7

Modi government is “Banking the unbanked; Funding the unfunded; Securing the unsecured”: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Feb 12, 2016 - 6:47 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

EDISON, NJ (TIP): “We are changing the nation’s face. Our aim is to make India a formidable power in the world. We work honestly to make India a strong, resilient and great nation in the […]

The new team with guests. L to R: Vineetha Nair, Parveen Chopra, Kamlesh Mehta, HR Shah, Dr Ajay Lodha, Dr. Thomas Mathew Joys, Ginsmon Zacharia, Shomik Chaudhuri, Prof Indrajit Saluja and Korason Varghese.

Indo American Press Club inducts new leadership

Feb 12, 2016 - 12:16 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

NEW YORK (TIP): The Indo American Press Club (IAPC) swore in its new team at a well-attended ceremony on Long Island February 6. Leading media personalities who graced the event at Tyson Center in Floral […]

Indian American Teenager Found Dead in Texas Apparent Suicide

Feb 12, 2016 - 12:08 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

DALLAS (TIP): Ritu Sachdeva, 17, an Indian American teenager was found dead Jan. 31 in her Murphy, Texas home, on the same day a school friend’s body was found in nearby woods. Ritu died of […]