Indian Americans

Indian American Sonika Vaid enters Top 24 in “Am?erican Idol”

Feb 12, 2016 - 12:53 am EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

Massachusetts based Indian American singer Sonika Vaid has secured a place in the Top 24 of the farewell season of “American Idol.” “Sonika! Welcome to the top 24!” exclaimed “American Idol” judge Jennifer Lopez on the […]

Indian American Pavithra Nagarajan Nominated as Presidential Scholar of the Arts

Feb 11, 2016 - 10:42 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

MIAMI, FL (February 2016) –The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) recently announced the nominees for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, which is one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students. Indian […]

Indian-origin Masood Khan wins $3.1 million discrimination suit against Chicago PD

Feb 11, 2016 - 10:33 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

Indian-Origin Masood Khan among 47 immigrants who were rejected by the Chicago Police Department to be a police officer for being foreign-born have won the discrimination case brought forward by the US Justice Department. Chicago taxpayers will spend $3.1 […]

Indian American doctor pleads guilty to fraud, unlawful dispensing of drugs

Feb 11, 2016 - 10:18 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

A 63-year-old former New Mexico doctor pleaded guilty Thursday, Feb 11, to unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and to health care fraud during an appearance in federal court in Las Cruces. His offenses was connected to […]

Indian American Neel Sethi shines in ‘The Jungle Book’ trailer

Feb 11, 2016 - 9:51 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

Los Angeles, Filmmaker Jon Favreau’s upcoming 3D live-animation adventure fantasy film ‘The Jungle Book,’ starring 12-year-old Neel Sethi as Mowgli, shows the Indian-American boy running for his life while surviving among various species of animals […]

Indian-Origin Harinder Sidhu To Be New Australian High Commissioner To India

Feb 11, 2016 - 2:11 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

MELBOURNE: Australia today announced the appointment of Indian-origin Harinder Sidhu as the country’s next High Commissioner to India. Mr Sidhu who has an Indian background had migrated to Australia as a child with her family from […]

Indian American Sikh Actor Waris Ahluwalia Barred From Mexico Flight Sees ‘Small Victory’

Feb 11, 2016 - 2:08 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

MEXICO CITY: An Indian-American actor and designer who was turned away from an airline flight after refusing to remove his Sikh turban during a security check said he’s “thrilled” that Aeromexico is vowing to overhaul its […]

Sikh Teen Pens Book On Bullying Of Community Children In US

Feb 11, 2016 - 1:55 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

A Sikh-American teenager has penned a book about bullying of children from the community in the US based on his experiences and that of others to raise awareness on the issue. Karanveer Singh Pannu, an […]

4 Indian-Americans Selected To US National Academy Of Engineering

Feb 11, 2016 - 1:02 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

WASHINGTON: Four Indian-Americans have been selected to the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to be part of its new list of 80 members for their valuable contributions to the society. Anil K Jain, Dr […]

Indian American Professor Devises Method to Locate Dark Matter

Feb 8, 2016 - 8:45 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

NEW YORK — An Indian American professor has devised a new method to characterize dark matter that can help hunt for the mysterious space phenomenon. Sukanya Chakrabarti, assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in […]

Women Have Different Causes, Symptoms of Heart Attacks: Cardiologist Laxmi Mehta

Feb 8, 2016 - 8:39 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

WASHINGTON — The American Heart Association has for the first time issued a scientific statement on female heart attacks, underscoring knowledge gaps and outlining the priority steps needed to better understand and treat heart disease in women. […]

US Opposes Rajat Gupta's Plea to Reverse Conviction

Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta gets review of insider-trading conviction

Feb 6, 2016 - 7:56 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

NEW YORK: India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta has convinced a US court to rehear an appeal to throw out his 2012 insider-trading conviction. The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan yesterday […]

Indian Origin American Bobby Jindal Endorses Marco Rubio For President

Feb 6, 2016 - 7:46 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

WASHINGTON: Indian-American former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has endorsed the presidential campaign of Florida Senator Marco Rubio following his better than expected finish in Iowa Caucus. Mr Jindal, 44, had dropped out of the White […]

IIT-Delhi Alumnus Indian American To Head Cornell’s New Business College

Feb 6, 2016 - 7:44 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

NEW YORK: Soumitra Dutta, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, will become the dean of the prestigious Cornell University’s new College of Business to be established during the 2016-17 academic year as a […]

Google Search Chief Amit Singhal to Step Down this Month

Feb 5, 2016 - 2:33 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

MOUNTAINVIEW, CA (TIP): As one of Google’s earliest search pioneers steps down and the company’s leader in artificial intelligence takes his place, analysts say the move signals the company’s desire to make its search engine […]

Indian-Americans Backing Donald Trump to Campaign in New Hampshire

Feb 5, 2016 - 2:30 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

JERSEY CITY, NJ (TIP): A group of Indian-Americans supporting Donald Trump have decided to campaign and run advertisements in New Hampshire after the Republican presidential front-runner suffered a shock defeat in Iowa. A decision in […]

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Indian-American Couple Gifts $3.5 Million For Sanskrit Studies at Chicago Varsity

Feb 5, 2016 - 2:11 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 1

WASHINGTON(TIP): The University of Chicago has established a professorship for the study of Sanskrit with a $3.5 million gift from an Indian-American couple to help it advance the study of the Indian subcontinent. The Anupama […]

Dr. Krishnan - Envision Awards Postdoctoral Fellowship

Envision Awards Postdoctoral Fellowship to Indian American Optometrist

Feb 5, 2016 - 2:09 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

WICHITA, KAN (TIP): Envision recently announced that it has awarded two new postdoctoral fellowships including one to Indian American Arun Kumar Krishnan, Ph.D., for research to be conducted at its Envision Research Institute (ERI), based here. His studies are expected to […]

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Two Indian Americans Receive Micro Grants from Lehigh Valley LaunchBox

Feb 5, 2016 - 2:06 pm EST The Indian Panorama Staff - TIP Bureau 0

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (TIP): The Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of Lehigh Valley LaunchBox, a University- and community-sponsored business accelerator program, approved and announced $50,000 in micro grants to 13 projects for the program’s […]