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Indian American Senate Candidate Announces Campaign to Label Drugs with Country of Origin

May 29, 2020 - 8:09 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

TRENTON, NJ (TIP): Republican Senate candidate Rik Mehta, a pharmacist and former FDA consumer safety officer from New Jersey, announced a plan to force drug manufacturers to label their products’ country of origin. Mehta is […]

Indian American IBM Scientist Rajiv Joshi Wins Inventor of the Year Award

May 29, 2020 - 7:59 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-American scientist Rajiv Joshi has bagged the prestigious Inventor of the Year award in recognition of his pioneering work in advancing the electronic industry and improving artificial intelligence capabilities. Dr Joshi has […]

Indian American Princeton Student Wins Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal

May 29, 2020 - 7:51 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

PRINCETON, NJ (TIP): Princeton senior Preeti Iyer has been honored for her service to the Class of 2020 and to the University. Iyer received the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal, which recognizes the senior […]

Indian American Led Team Develops Low-Cost Ventilator

May 29, 2020 - 7:22 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

ATLANTA, GA (TIP): An Indian American led team has developed a low-cost, portable ventilator meant to help doctors around the world treat COVID-19 patients. Devesh Ranjan, a professor and associate chair in the prestigious Georgia […]

Indian American Vrinda Marwah Earns Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

May 22, 2020 - 5:33 pm EDT @theindpanorama 1

AUSTIN, TX (TIP): Vrinda Marwa, a Doctoral Candidate of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin is among the winners of the 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellowships. The prestigious fellowships support […]

Indian Origin Nobel Laurate Venki Ramakrishnan Elected to American Philosophical Society

May 22, 2020 - 5:31 pm EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW YORK (TIP): Venkatraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist of Indian origin,is among 34 new members recently elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s oldest scholarly organization. Ramakrishnan has been inducted into APS’ biological […]

Indian American Qazi Javed Appointed to Texas Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Advisory Council

May 22, 2020 - 5:25 pm EDT @theindpanorama 2

HOUSTON (TIP): Texas Governor Greg Abbott last month has appointed Indian American psychiatrist Qazi Javed to the Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Advisory Council for terms set to expire on August 31, 2021. The council advises […]

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Indian-origin South Africans’ ‘musical’ initiative to fight coronavirus blues becomes global hit

May 22, 2020 - 5:23 pm EDT @theindpanorama 2

JOHANNESBURG(TIP): The ‘SA Musicians against COVID-19’ project helps artists to showcase their talent in Indian music and song, sometimes accompanied by dance as well. The project was started by Johannesburg residents—Lexy Shunmoogam, Chitra Perumal, Kreasan […]

Indian American Attorney Shot Dead in Georgia

May 15, 2020 - 9:35 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

ATLANTA (TIP): An Indian origin senior staff attorney at Cobb County Magistrate was shot and killed May 9 morning while confronting a gunman outside a home in Locust Grove, a report in Atlanta Journal Constitution […]

Indian American Yale Student Builds Textbook Library for Needy Students

May 15, 2020 - 9:32 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW YORK (TIP): Kushal Dev, a second-year student at Yale’s Silliman College has founded the Silliman Textbook Library — a communal space housing over 1,000 textbooks that can be used by Yale students who can’t […]

Indian Grocery Store Owner in California Faces Price Gouging Charges

May 15, 2020 - 9:29 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW YORK (TIP): On May 7, Alameda County DA O’Malley and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that their offices have jointly filed a nine-count misdemeanor complaint charging Apna Bazar, a large grocery store in […]

Indian American Engineer Charged in Texas with COVID-Relief Fraud

May 15, 2020 - 9:23 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

HOUSTON (TIP): An Indian origin engineer has been charged in the Eastern District of Texas with allegedly filing bank loan applications fraudulently seeking more than $10 million dollars in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small […]

Indian American Stony Brook Sisters use GRL PWR to fight disease

May 15, 2020 - 9:10 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW YORK (TIP): Ruchi Shah was 15 years old when she noticed a long line of people outside of a tiny clinic waiting to get treatment for mosquito-transmitted diseases during a family trip to India. […]

Indian American Historian Rohit De Named One of 27 Carnegie Fellows

May 15, 2020 - 9:08 am EDT @theindpanorama 3

NEW YORK (TIP): Rohit De, an associate professor of history at Yale University, has been named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He joins a class of 27 fellows, each of whom receives up to $200,000 […]

Indian Origin Texas Man Admits Role in Nearly $5 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

May 15, 2020 - 9:05 am EDT @theindpanorama 2

HOUSTON (TIP): A 57-year-old Houston man has entered a guilty plea in Corpus Christi federal court for conspiring to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick. Ravinder Syal admitted he engaged in a […]

Indian Origin Chintan Mehta and Munish Kumar on Wells Fargo Expanded Technology Leadership Team

May 15, 2020 - 8:59 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

CIOs named to support Corporate Strategy, Digital Platform & Innovation, and Wealth & Investment Management businesses SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced, May 8, two new leaders joining the Technology organization. […]

Three Indian American Students Win Prestigious DOE Fellowship

May 15, 2020 - 8:49 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW YORK (TIP): Three Indian American Students are among 26 recipients nationwide of a Department of Energy Computation Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). They are Priya Donti from Carnegie Mellon University, and Dipti Jasrasaria and Amaresh […]

Visa, OCI card suspension prevents several Indians in US from flying back home

May 15, 2020 - 7:19 am EDT @theindpanorama 1

NEW YORK (TIP): Several Indians in the US, either on the H-1B work visa or Green Card having children who are American citizens by birth, are being prevented from travelling to India aboard the special […]

Eminent Ophthalmologist VK Raju honored by Egyptian Ophthalmology Society

Feb 29, 2020 - 11:26 am EST I. S. Saluja 1

CAIRO (TIP): Dr. VK Raju, an eminent ophthalmologist based in Morgan Town, West Virginia, USA was invited to Cairo by the Egyptian Ophthalmology Society to speak on childhood blindness. He lectured on difficult cataract surgery, […]

Lotus Management Group Inc, Hicksville, NY Ordered to Pay Wages to ex-Employee

Feb 23, 2020 - 9:11 pm EST @theindpanorama 1

HICKSVILLE, NY (TIP): District Court of Nassau County 1st District NSC Part has ordered the Lotus Management Group Inc located at 127 North Broadway, Hicksville, NY 11801 to pay $548.57 to one of its ex-employees […]

SAMHIN Organizes Suicide Prevention Workshop – Finding Light at the End of the Tunnel

Feb 21, 2020 - 3:09 am EST @theindpanorama 2

Suicide results in more deaths than war, homicide and natural disasters combined. Over 42,000 people die by suicide in the U.S. every year. It is difficult to find anyone whose life has not been affected […]

Indian American Doctor Settles Civil Fraud Allegations in Adult Homes Investigation

Jan 24, 2020 - 4:14 am EST @theindpanorama 32

NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Rajendra Bhayani, an otolaryngologist, has agreed to pay the United States $1,109,000 to resolve civil allegations that he and his practice – New York Otolaryngology & Aesthetic Surgery, P.C. in Brooklyn […]

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Amneal Pharmaceuticals among major pharmaceutical companies under Federal Investigation

Dec 15, 2019 - 6:41 pm EST @theindpanorama 1

LONG ISLAND, NY(TIP): Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , an American publicly traded generics and specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey and with a facility in Long Island is among one of the six major […]

Indian American tech executive found dead in his car

Oct 4, 2019 - 10:14 pm EDT @theindpanorama 1

SANTA CRUZ(TIP): Indian American Tushar Atre, California’s Santa Cruz-based tech executive who was kidnapped from his home on Tuesday, October 1, has been found dead inside his BMW car. Santa Cruz county sheriff’s office posted an […]

Indian American Historian’s Book shortlisted for 2019 Cundill History Prize

Oct 4, 2019 - 10:12 pm EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW YORK(TIP): Indian American Historian Sunil Amrith’s “Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia’s History,” has been shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize. The Cundill History Prize is a prestigious annual award […]