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  • Dallas doctor gets 35 years in prison for $375M medical fraud

    Dallas doctor gets 35 years in prison for $375M medical fraud

    DALLAS (TIP)- A 60-year-old Dallas-area doctor has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping defraud Medicare and Medicaid out of almost $375 million.

    A federal judge also ordered Dr. Jacques (ZHAWK) Roy on Wednesday to pay more than $268 million in restitution. A jury in April 2016 convicted the Rockwall physician of nine of 10 counts of defrauding a health care benefit program.

    Roy owned Medistat Group Associates in the Dallas suburb of DeSoto.

    Authorities say Roy and six co-defendants certified 11,000 Medicare beneficiaries through more than 500 home health providers between January 2006 and November 2011. Those numbers would have made Roy’s Medicare practice the busiest in the country.

  • August 4 New York & Dallas Print Editions

    August 4 New York & Dallas Print Editions

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  • July 28 New York & Dallas Print Editions

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  • The 2017 MoneyGram Cricket Bee Dallas winners announced

    The 2017 MoneyGram Cricket Bee Dallas winners announced

    METUCHEN, NJ (TIP): Three North Texas men are headed the Cricket Bee Finals in New Jersey next month after winning the Dallas regional Cricket Bee held on July 16. Vikram Shukla of Frisco, TX was declared second runner up, Vinay Bulusu of Irving, TX was first runner up and the Regional champion was Nadeem Aslam of Murphy, TX.  The competition allows cricket fans to compete for prizes while sharing their knowledge of the game to win a cash prize of $10,000.

    Open to those 18 and older, the MoneyGram Cricket Bee is continuing the search of the brightest Cricket fan with regional rounds in San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, New Jersey and will conclude in Toronto, each testing participants’ general cricket knowledge. The regional contest will have two components, a written test and an oral test. In the written qualifier, contestants will be asked 35 questions. They must get at least 25 correct to advance to the oral round. In the oral round, the contest will be held on a miss and out basis; simply if a contestant misses the right answer, they are eliminated.

    Unlike quiz shows, the Cricket Bee will be conducted so that contestants are competing with themselves and the question posed to them as opposed to their peers.

    Cricket enthusiasts can still participate at the remaining centers in Chicago, New Jersey, and Toronto. Contestants can register to compete in the game of their choice at www.cricketbee.com. A sample set of questions and sources will be provided for the participants.

    “We are thrilled to sponsor the 2017 Cricket Bee and as always, we enjoy being a part of an initiative that our customers are passionate about,” says Wendi Schlarb, MoneyGram’s head of marketing for the Americas. “Cricket is a sport that brings friends and loved ones around the world closer together, much like MoneyGram’s services. It’s always exciting to be a part of activities that support our South Asian communities.”

    Kawan Foods serves as the powered by sponsor for the innovative event and has been deeply involved with the South Asian community through various initiatives and hopes to connect with the entire Cricketing community here in the US and Canada.

    “We want to congratulate the winners of the regional contest and wish them continued success in their endeavor to win $10,000,” said Tim Tan, MD Kawan Foods.

    “There was a lot of excitement and immense talent at the regional which goes to show how passionate people are about the game. Participants had an opportunity to network and interact with other cricket players and enthusiasts from various cities and I am very happy to have our first set of finalists.” said Rahul Walia, Founder of the Cricket Bee.

    TV Asia serves as the exclusive broadcaster for the event and has been a strong proponent of promoting Cricket in the country.

    “We are so proud to be a part of the MoneyGram Cricket Bee, it’s definitely a great platform for cricket enthusiasts across the country and we are excited to see them at the finals.” said HR Shah, chairman and CEO of TV Asia and an avid cricketer himself.

    The finals are slated for August 12th and are open for the public to watch. You can reserve seats by calling 848-248-4199.

     

  • July 21 New York & Dallas Print Editions

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  • Mice caught on tape at a Dallas Chipotle

    DALLAS (TIP): CNN Money says Chipotle’s stock fell on Thursday, July 20, as the company suffered another public setback: Customers complained that they saw rodents in a Dallas location.

    “A few mice did get inside one restaurant from the outside due to a small structural gap in the building,” Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) spokeswoman Quinn Kelsey said Thursday. “Management immediately removed them, and the gap has been repaired.”

    Diners took video of the mice skittering through the restaurant on Tuesday.

    The stock was down 4.5% on Thursday and Chipotle (CMG)’s share price has dropped about 10% over the last five trading days.

    “We’ve been in touch with our guests to offer our sincere apologies,” Kelsey said. “This is an extremely isolated incident, but of course it’s not anything we’d ever want our guests to encounter.”

    The chain has more than 2,200 restaurants in the United States.

    The company on Wednesday said it had reopened and thoroughly sanitized a location in Sterling, Virginia, that had to be temporarily shuttered after people contracted norovirus or a similar illness after eating at the restaurant.

    Hundreds of Chipotle customers were sickened by E. coli and norovirus in 2015 at about a dozen restaurants, prompting the chain’s first quarterly loss and a nationwide four-hour shutdown for a companywide cleaning course.

  • At NBA summer league, Satnam Singh is still fighting for his chance

    At NBA summer league, Satnam Singh is still fighting for his chance

    DALLAS (TIP): With the first quarter of the Dallas–Phoenix matchup dwindling down to a close, Mavericks guard Josh Adams dribbled up the floor, received a screen from Ding Yanyuhang and drove left. The Suns’ Mike James and Dragan Bender, charged with protecting the pick-and-pop attack, trapped Adams, leaving Ding wide open from beyond the arc. Adams swung the ball over, and the 2017 Chinese Basketball Association MVP swished a straight-on 3 to the tune of hundreds of elated Asian-American fans busting out in applause.

    All the while, Satnam Singh — a 7-foot-2 center and the first Indian-born player drafted into the NBA — stared on from the end of the Mavericks bench. Challenged with igniting hoops enthusiasm halfway across the world, he must climb a steep ladder to catch the attention of his home country.

    While Ding merits his own acclaim, it is hard to imagine that an arena full of fans would have trekked to Las Vegas in the dead of July for NBA summer league had Yao Ming not come before him. But what happens when you’re not a bona fide All Star such as Yao?

    The truth is, two years after being selected by the Mavs in the second round of the 2015 NBA draft, Singh — the face of Indian basketball — is still toiling away, fighting for minutes in the NBA’s development league with the Texas Legends.

    However, Singh’s resolve remains steadfast. And even if he hasn’t increased his minutes or on-court opportunities, observation alone has proved an invaluable experience. He spent two anxiety-ridden years champing at the bit, watching the clock and wondering when his name would be called. He now has learned not to focus on what he can’t control.

    “I was stressing my mind,” Singh said. “Always thinking, ‘I need time. I need time.’ Whereas now, nothing is happening. If I waste my time like that, I get too much pressure on my mind. I lost everything.”

    It helped that the Mavs were a wrecking squad en route to the summer league championship in Orlando this year, providing the garbage-time minutes Singh so desperately craves to hone his abilities.

    “If I get a couple minutes, I just rebound and finish the shot,” he said. “Focus on running, keep running up and down the court.”

    In that game against Phoenix, which Dallas won 88-77 on Sunday, Singh played in the final two minutes, boxing out and putting the hurt on any Sun who dared venture near the rim.

    Toiling away in the background and hustling up and down the court in the hopes of maybe one day becoming the fourth big man in an NBA rotation isn’t exactly the easiest sell. But to understand Singh’s potential, you also must understand how far Singh has come in such a short period of time — and against what odds.

    Born in Ballo Ke, a tiny village in the state of Punjab, he was destined to a life of wheat farming, until his father took a life-defining chance at the suggestion of a friend and sent Singh to Ludhiana, a nearby city, to play basketball. It was there that the IMG Academy in Florida granted him a three-month scholarship that eventually stretched out to the day he declared for the draft. Starting at 14 years old, Singh not only was tasked with perfecting a new sport among lifelong prospects but also learning to speak English, a language with which he had no familiarity. In many ways, it is remarkable that he is even here at all.

  • Dallas attorney and his Pakistani assistant indicted for alleged marriage fraud scheme involving Indian American

    Dallas attorney and his Pakistani assistant indicted for alleged marriage fraud scheme involving Indian American

    DALLAS (TIP): A federal grand jury in Dallas returned a one-count indictment last week charging a South Asian-American Dallas attorney and his assistant of Pakistani origin, with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud.

    This indictment was announced July 19, by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is investigating this case.

    The indictment charges Bilal Ahmed Khaleeq, 47, an American citizen, and Amna Cheema, 37, a Pakistani national, with one count each of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. If convicted, the count charged in the indictment carries a maximum statutory penalty of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

    An indictment is an accusation by a federal grand jury, and Khaleeq and Cheema are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

    Khaleeq and Cheema made their initial appearances in federal court July 18, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Horan. Both were released on bond.

    The indictment alleges that in May 2015, Khaleeq intentionally solicited Person A (not identified in the press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office), a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from India, to marry Cheema, to obtain U.S. permanent residence for Cheema.

    In exchange, Person A received a payment of $745, with promises of additional monies upon approval of the Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status application (Form I-485), the indictment alleges.

    Cheema and Person A were married in Dallas County on June 15, 2015. Khaleeq allegedly arranged the marriage, advised Cheema regarding the filing of the Petition for Alien Relative (Form I-130), and represented the parties at the interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

    After Cheema and Person A had been married, Khaleeq advised the parties on preparing the I-130 petition and supporting documents needed to make the marriage appear legitimate, the indictment alleges, adding that Khaleeq’s advice included but was not limited to, joint bank accounts, tax returns, bills concerning their joint residence, and other fraudulent evidence, including photos. On July 10, 2015, the parties filed Forms I-130 and I-485 with USCIS.

    The indictment further alleges that from Jan. 26, 2016 through March 7, 2017, Khaleeq, Cheema and Person A had several discussions regarding the immigration process and the documentary evidence needed to represent Cheema and Person A as a bona fide married couple for the purposes of obtaining the immigration benefit.

    In addition, the indictment alleges that Khaleeq coached Person A how to address the questions that would be posed during the USCIS interview process. Among other pieces of advice that he gave, Khaleeq allegedly instructed Person A specifically, to tell the USCIS adjudications officer that he cohabitated with Cheema even though that was a false statement. Khaleeq also advised Person A to leave some articles of clothing in Cheema’s house to make it appear that he was living there, the indictment says, and that the three parties discussed filing joint tax returns to provide additional evidence and discussed how long Person A and Cheema should remain married in order for her to obtain her U.S. permanent residence.

    Khaleeq has an eponymous, Khaleeq Law Firm PLLC, in Dallas, where he is the lead attorney. The firm deals with a range of legal issues from bankruptcy, technology, criminal, family, health care, insurance, intellectual property, real estate, wills, trusts, immigration, juvenile, workers compensation, and non-profits, plus other areas.

    Khaleeq has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Rice University in Houston, Texas and a Juris Doctorate degree from Creighton University, in Omaha, Nebraska, according to the website of the law firm.

    The website also says Khaleeq “has been honored with numerous community service awards including the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award for Iowa and Nebraska (2009), the Omaha Chamber of Commerce for the Leadership Omaha Class (2009-2010) and the Nebraska Bar Association for Leadership (2010). He is actively involved in several non-profit, civic, religious organizations as President and Board Member, the site adds.

  • The 2017 South Asian Spelling Bee Bay Area & Dallas winners announced

    The 2017 South Asian Spelling Bee Bay Area & Dallas winners announced

    NEW JERSEY (TIP): Continuing its quest for the best speller in the community, the 2017 South Asian Spelling Bee (www.SouthAsianSpellingBee.com) traveled to California last week and Texas this past weekend with stops in the Bay Area and Dallas.

    With a huge turnout this year as well, the Bee attracted some top talent as well as young and new spellers that competed for the coveted prizes and titles.

    In the Bay Area Regional, Rutvik Gandhasri (13) of San Jose, California was the regional champ, Rishik Gandhasri (11) of San Jose, California, was the first runner up, and Emaad Sohail (12) of Bakersfield, California, was second runner up.

    Dallas. Pavani Chittemsetty (First Runner Up), Abhijay Kodali (First Runner Up), Pranav Chemudupaty (Regional Champion), and Rahul Walia Founder of South Asian Spelling Bee.
    Bay Area. Rahul Walia, Founder of South Asian Spelling Bee, Emaad Sohail (Second Runner Runner Up), Rutvik Gandhasri (Regional Champion), Rishik Gandhasri (First Runner Up).

    At a hotly contested Bee in Dallas, Pranav Chemudupaty (13) from Pearland, Texas bagged the regional champ, and for the first time in be South Asian Spelling Bee history Pavani Chittemsetty (11) from Bentonville, Arkansas and Abhijay Kodali (10) from Highland Village, Texas were declared co-first runner-ups.

    The initiative is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and is open to children of South Asian descent up to 14 years of age. The aim is to give South Asian children a chance to test their spelling skills in their core peer group while also learning crucial life skills that contribute to the overall development of the speller.

    Organized by Touchdown Media Inc., the South Asian Spelling Bee was held in 8 locations across the United States. Apart from Bay Area, and Dallas regional centers include Chicago, Seattle, Washington, D.C. Metro, Charlotte, Boston, and New Jersey. All events will be free to attend and open to the public. An international regional in Accra, Ghana was conducted earlier this year, from where spellers of South Asian descent will qualify for the finals.

    “For the past nine years, the Bee has consistently provided a firm platform for the community to come together and hone their craft. It’s become a family activity that contributes towards the overall development of the child. We are proud to enter our Tenth consecutive year and look forward to engaging some of these wonderful spellers,” said Rahul Walia, founder of the South Asian Spelling Bee and CEO of Touchdown Media Inc.

    The top two spellers of each regional competition will advance to the finals to be held in New Jersey in August. Champion’s grand prize of $3,000 will be awarded to the winner at the finals.

    This year again, the Bee is proudly powered by Kawan- the world’s most popular Roti paratha brand returns as the powered by sponsor and as always, SONY Entertainment Television Asia is the exclusive broadcast partner for the South Asian Spelling Bee and will be airing the series across 120 countries.

    “Kawan is proud to return as a sponsor and we have tremendous faith in contributing towards crucial family time for the community. We look forward to getting to know the spellers and their families through this wonderful journey,” said Tim Tan, Managing Director Kawan Food.

    “Year over year, the South Asian Spelling Bee has made for great programing that gels with our ethos of compete family entertainment. We are all about family values and encourage platforms such as these that highlight the talent of our community,” said Jaideep Janakiram, Head of North America, Sony Entertainment Television-Asia.

    For a complete schedule, registration and any other information, please visit: www.SouthAsianSpellingBee.com.

    Find us on Facebook at South Asian Spelling Bee and you can follow us on our Twitter handle at Spell South Asian.

    About Sony Entertainment Television Asia:

    Since its launch on the Indian subcontinent in 1995, Sony Entertainment Television (SET) has enjoyed rapid success, leading to the establishment of European, North American and African feeds known as SET Asia.  SET and SET Asia are now available in over 150 countries.  The channels offer their viewers a distinctive blend of entertainment programs twenty-four hours a day, including, soap operas, dramas, sitcoms, concerts, movies, and game shows. For more information, visit www.setasia.tv.

    About Touchdown Media Inc.:

    Touchdown Media Inc. is a specialized South Asian advertising and promotions firm based in New Jersey. Now in its 11th successful year, Touchdown has helped clients- both mainstream and otherwise, reach out to the lucrative South Asian market, Touchdown Media represents more than 35 years of collective experience in this niche market. As a full-service ad firm, Touchdown has helped many clients achieve their media and marketing goals within the South Asian Diaspora in the US.

  • Man Trapped Inside Texas A.T.M. for 3 Hours Rescued by Police

    Man Trapped Inside Texas A.T.M. for 3 Hours Rescued by Police

    CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (TIP): Just after 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, a person in Corpus Christi, Tex., had just completed a transaction at a Bank of America A.T.M. when a surprise slid through the receipt slot.

    “Please help,” read a handwritten note on a thin strip of paper. “I’m stuck in here, and I don’t have my phone.”

    The person, whose age and gender the authorities did not provide, did not know quite what to do. But it so happened that a Corpus Christi police officer was driving by, so the person went a step beyond what other A.T.M. users had been willing to do and flagged down the officer.

    The officer, like previous bank patrons, initially thought the note was a joke — some sort of “Candid Camera”-type prank that no one wanted to fall for.

    But then the officer approached the A.T.M., and when he listened closely, he could hear a faint sound.

    This was how the police came to discover a man who had been trapped for hours inside an A.T.M., said Gena Pena, a spokeswoman for the Corpus Christi Police Department.

    “Honestly, we can’t say it’s never happened,” Ms. Pena said in an interview on Thursday. “But 95 percent of people will have their phone on them,” she added, and for about three hours, she said, this man did not.

    How does one become stuck inside an A.T.M. in the first place? Ms. Pena said it happened this way:

    The A.T.M. was affixed to a bank, which was under construction, so no employees were inside. The A.T.M., though, was operational. And somewhere on the site, a door led into what Ms. Pena called an “A.T.M. vault” — a room from which a person can service a teller machine from the inside.

    A worker arrived on Wednesday to repair the “locking mechanism” of the room, Ms. Pena said. The door shut behind the worker, and somehow, she said, the man locked himself in.

    The worker, whom the police did not identify, had left his phone inside a vehicle. But once he realized that people were using the A.T.M., the man began slipping notes out the receipt slot, a solution Ms. Pena thought was “pretty ingenious.”

    Unfortunately for the man, several A.T.M. users who got a note thought they were being pranked and apparently did nothing.

    “He was kind of upset,” Ms. Pena said of the contract worker.

    Indeed, the man would later tell the police that he had been screaming for help. Something about the room, though, must have muffled the sound, Ms. Pena said.

    The contractor “didn’t think this was going to happen, obviously,” Ms. Pena said. “I feel bad for him.”

  • Indian American doctor couple killed in plane crash in US

    Indian American doctor couple killed in plane crash in US

    The Piper Archer PA-28 piloted by Umamaheswara is believed to have crashed sometime between 10:36 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, the media release said.

    HOUSTON (TIP): In a tragic incident, an Indian-origin psychiatrist couple were killed when their private plane crashed in the US state of Ohio, police officials said on Wednesday, July 5.

    Umamaheswara Kalapatapu, 63, and his wife Sitha-Gita Kalapatapu, 61, both of Logansport, were killed in the crash, according to a media release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

    The Piper Archer PA-28 piloted by Umamaheswara is believed to have crashed sometime between 10:36am and 12:30pm on Saturday, July 8, the release said.

    The release goes on to report that Ohio State Highway Patrol Aviation with assistance from the Civil Air Patrol located the crash scene in an abandoned retention pond near the village of Beverly in southeastern Ohio.

    Ohio State Highway Patrol Sgt Garic Warner said in an interview on Monday that the crash occurred about 3 miles northwest of Beverly.

    Searchers found the wreckage Saturday afternoon.

    There was no word on what caused the crash. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

    The Kalapatapus were psychiatrists and owned Raj Clinics, with offices in Logansport, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Lafayette and Kokomo.

    “They were generous to a fault, extremely hardworking and dedicated to their patients,” employee Heather Geisler said of the Kalapatapus.

    Umamaheswara Kalapatapu was a talented photographer while Sitha-Gita was a gifted musician and “fantastic cook,” Geisler said.

    Umamaheswara received multiple state, national and international awards and recognition for his photography and had been a certified professional photographer by the Professional Photographers of America since 2005, according to Pharos-Tribune archives.

    “They were just two people that were so full of life. It’s hard to imagine that they’re not there anymore. They were wonderful people, absolutely wonderful. Two of the kindest people I’ve ever known and I’m going to miss them,” Geisler said.

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  • Indian American Executives Advance to EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Finals

    Indian American Executives Advance to EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Finals

    DALLAS (TIP): More than a dozen Indian American executives nationwide have been named as regional winners in the 31st annual Ernst and Young U.S. Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

    The winners were selected from countless entrepreneurs, including dozens of Indian Americans, chosen as regional finalists in 25 regions throughout the country.

    At least 13 Indian Americans were named from nine regions, including three from the Southeast region.

    Among the Southeast regional winners were Satya Tiwari, Sidd Ahmed and Asif Ramji.

    Tiwari is the president of White, Ga.-based Surya, a family-run home decor company, since April 2004. He began his career as an investment banker following his graduation from Northwestern University in 2000.

    Ahmed has been the president and CEO at VDart Inc. dating back to April 2008. Prior to that, he was vice president of sales at Systel Inc. Ahmed is a graduate of GCE and earned certificates at Northwestern University’s management school and Dartmouth’s school of business.

    Ramji is the president and CEO of Paymetric. He has held leadership roles at the Greater Atlanta, Ga.-based company since 2009. He previously held leadership roles at RBS WorldPay Inc. and Moneris Solutions. He is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

    Raghu Marwaha and Rohit Marwaha of the Marwaha Group were among the winners in the Orange County region. The family organization owns and operates multiple Subway restaurants in Southern California. Raghu serves as the CEO of the company, where he’s been since January 1994. Rohit is a managing partner at the company, which he joined in August 1994.

    Ameri100 president Giri Devanur and Azure Knowledge Corporation co-founder and executive director Jay Ruparel were among the New Jersey regional winners.

    Devanur, a graduate of the University of Mysore and Columbia University, has been with the enterprise technology management company since September 2010. He has also served as the CEO at TCG-Ivega Corporation from 1997 to 2005 and GC Advanced R&D in Bangalore from 2006 to 2010.

    Ruparel co-founded Azure Knowledge Corporation, a global market research solutions company, in April 2001. In addition to Azure, Ruparel serves in various adviser, chairperson and management roles for different companies. He is a graduate of North Gujarat University and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

    In the Mid-Atlantic region, Altruista Health CEO Ashish Kachru and Fishbowl Inc. CEO and president Dev Ganesan were named regional winners.

    Kachru has served as the CEO at Altruista Health since October 2010. He has been with the company since 2007, previously serving as its chairman and president. The Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology and University of Chicago Booth School of Business graduate has also worked at Cummins Inc., Dunrath Capital, Procter & Gamble and Americhoice.

    Ganesan has served as the president and CEO of Fishbowl since October 2014. He is a University of Mumbai graduate, and is also serving on the boards of DC Central Kitchen and Brandmuscle. He was previously president and CEO of Aptara.

    In the Greater Philadelphia region, Jagath Wanninayake of Suvoda LLC was named a winner. Wanninayake has been the co-founder, chairman and CEO at Suvoda since September 2012. He also serves as the co-founder and executive chairman at Mixette and managing partner at Serendip Ventures. A Swarthmore College graduate, Wanninayake also co-founded Jamity Records and Clarix.

    Ravi Kunduru of Ventech Solutions was named a winner in the Ohio Valley region. Kunduru serves as the president and chief innovation officer of Ventech Solutions, a Columbus, Ohio-based company he founded in 1994. He has served there for 23 years running. The Indian American earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Madras SRM College of Engineering.

    In the Gulf Coast Region, Swapnil Agarwal was chosen to represent the area as a regional winner. Agarwal serves as the CEO at the Houston-based Nitya Capital, a real estate private equity fund company, where he’s been since 2013. Also since 2013, Agarwal has served as the CEO at Karya Property Management. He has previously worked at Forum Partners, and Simmons and Company International. He earned a bachelor’s from the University of Texas at Austin.

    In the New England Region, Raj Shanmugaraj of Acacia Communications was chosen as a winner. He has been president and CEO at Acacia since February 2010. He has also served as vice president at Alcatel and chief executive at Astral Point Communications. Earlier in his career, he served as a director at Motorola. He earned a degree at the National Institute of Technology.

    SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia was named a regional winner in the Mountain Desert region. Dholakia has been the CEO at SendGrid since September 2014. Previously he was group vice president and general manager of cloud platforms group at Citrix Systems, the CEO of VMLogix Inc. and held various leadership roles at Trilogy. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s from Stanford University and an M.B.A. at Harvard Business School.

    In the Southwest, Dr. Sulman Ahmed of DECA Dental was named a winner. Ahmed is the CEO and founder of the DECA Dental Group, which he founded in 2008. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas and the Tufts School of Dental Medicine.

    Lalit Chordia, CEO of Thar Energy, was named a winner in the Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia region. Chordia has been with Thar since January 2011. The Indian American is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Carnegie Mellon University.

    Also named a regional winner in the Greater Los Angeles region was KabaFusion Holdings LLC chief executive officer Sohail Massood, a Pakistani American.

    No Indian American or South Asian American entrepreneurs were selected from the Midwest, Central Midwest, Upper Midwest, Florida, Maryland, Michigan and Northwest Ohio, Central Texas, Northern California, Northeast Texas, New York, Utah, San Diego or Pacific Northwest regions.

    The regional winners will now head to the EY U.S. Entrepreneur of the Year national finals in Palm Springs, Calif., this November. The winner of that competition will then represent the country in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year global finals next year.

  • Indian American Comedian Nik Dodani Lands Role in Netflix Film

    Indian American Comedian Nik Dodani Lands Role in Netflix Film

    DALLAS (TIP): Indian American actor Nik Dodani will star in the Netflix film, “Alex Strangelove,” written and directed by Craig Johnson.

    The comedy, according to Deadline, follows high school senior Alex Strangelove’s quest to lose his virginity with his girlfriend, made all the more awkward by his struggle to identify and declare his sexuality.

    Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films is producing the film, in which Dodani will play Blake, a man of few words who enjoys teasing Alex.

    Born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Dodani, an actor/comedian/activist, now lives in Los Angeles.

    Dodani will soon have a recurring role on “Atypical,” a new Netflix original comedy by Robia Rashid, and will also be appearing in Joshua Leonard’s indie film, “Behold My Heart,” opposite Marisa Tomei, Timothy Olyphant, Charlie Plummer, and Sakina Jaffrey.

    His other TV credits include Comedy Central’s “Idiotsitter,” FreeForm’s “Kevin From Work,” NBC’s “The Player,” and HBO’s “The Comeback.”

    Dodani can be spotted in commercials for Verizon, AT&T, Liberty Mutual, and Wendy’s.

    He is also currently a design and production activist with Art Not War, a cultural impact and PR firm. During the 2016 presidential election, Dodani was an associate producer at MoveOn.org, where he produced videos, graphics, and live events targeting millennial voters, such as the national standup comedy tour, “Laughter Trumps Hate”; a get-out-the-vote PSA called “Millennials Against Trump”; and a sketch, starring Gaby Hoffmann, called “Cash or SuperPAC?”

    Previously, he worked for Elizabeth Warren’s 2012 Senate campaign and for Alicia Keys’ HIV/AIDS awareness initiative.

     

     

     

  • Narendra Dahotre Named UNT Interim Associate VP of Research

    Narendra Dahotre Named UNT Interim Associate VP of Research

    DALLAS (TIP): The University of North Texas June 20 named Narendra Dahotre its interim associate vice president of research and innovation.

    Dahotre, who serves as a distinguished research professor in materials science and engineering at the university, will serve a one-year appointment while the university conducts a nationwide search for a permanent replacement for Dave Schultz, who left for a position at Northern Arizona University.

    “I am honored to be able to join the leadership team in UNT’s Office of Research and Innovation,” the Indian American professor said in a statement. “I look forward to supporting and contributing in a positive and impactful way this next year.”

    In the interim role, Dahotre will facilitate research projects that have been funded by the federal government, including UNT’s work funded by the Army Research Lab for a Tactical Shelters project and a Ballistics project.

    Additionally, he will oversee the management of UNT’s shared instrumentation facilities across campus and work with the advisory groups and directors for each facility, as well as serve as chair of the new Research Space Adjudication Subcommittee and assist with the development, approval and implementation of partnership agreements with other universities, national labs and industry.

    “Narendra brings incredible experience and knowledge to the position, which will help guide our division and lead faculty to the next level of research enterprise at UNT,” UNT vice president for research and innovation Tom McCoy said in a university news release. “Narendra will contribute substantially because of his success as a researcher and his knowledge of UNT, and I know he will be a valuable partner to our government and university peers in helping to coordinate important research projects.”

    Dahotre is a former chairman of the UNT College of Engineering’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

    A member of the National Academy of Inventors, he is internationally known and recognized in his field for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and engineering of laser-materials in processing and manufacturing, the university said.

    The professor, who has been at UNT since 2010, has 16 U.S. patents to his name and has published nearly 300 articles in professional journals, as well as authored four books and edited 13 other books focused on laser materials processing and manufacturing and surface engineering.

    He is a fellow of nine national and international societies, including the American Society of Materials and American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and is a founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing and editor of the Journal of Lasers and Optics.

    A graduate of Michigan State University, earning his doctorate and master’s degrees, and the University of Poona in India, where he received his bachelor’s degree, Dahotre previously worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in faculty roles, as well as a director role at the University of Tennessee Space Institute-Tullahoma

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  • Texas’s Illegal Execution Drugs from India have Expired Plans to buy more

    Texas’s Illegal Execution Drugs from India have Expired Plans to buy more

    DALLAS (TIP): Three states spent more than $75,000 to buy a banned execution drug from India. The FDA blocked the shipments, a court fight ensued, and last month the drugs expired.

    Three-thousand vials of a banned execution drug that Texas, Arizona, and Nebraska have been fighting for the right to use have now expired, and Texas has vowed to buy more.

    The states paid $75,000 for the drug — sodium thiopental, a powerful anesthetic — two years ago despite a warning from federal officials that it would not be allowed into the country. The shipments were seized, and since that time, the states have been engaged in a legal standoff with the Food and Drug Administration, arguing that they should be permitted to use the drug for “law enforcement purpose only.”

    While the sides fought in court, however, the drugs expired and may no longer be effective. Texas has indicated that it plans to buy more.

    Doing so is not a simple matter.

    Outlawed in the United States, sodium thiopental is still used in other countries, but most reputable drug makers have enacted stringent measures to keep their products from being used for executions. Which is what led the three states, last time around, to a supplier in India named Chris Harris.

    Harris has billed himself as a manufacturer of the drug, but a BuzzFeed News investigation cast doubt on his claims. He has no scientific expertise. He has listed two Indian facilities with the FDA and the Drug Enforcement Administration — one is a small rented office space, and the other is an old apartment that he left still owing rent on.

    Instead, Harris purchased the drugs from another manufacturer in India, slapped his label on the vials, and then resold them at a massive profit.

    Harris has repeatedly declined to speak with BuzzFeed News. “I think you people don’t understand English,” Harris wrote in 2015. “I have said I won’t waste my time replying to you as you will write whatever you want anyways. STOP SENDING ME MAILS.”

    According to FDA documents obtained by BuzzFeed News through an open records request, his drugs expired in May 2017.

    A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said the lawsuit would continue.

    In an affidavit, last year that has not been made public until now, a state official whose name was redacted wrote that Texas “intends to continue importing thiopental sodium from the same foreign source, and with the same labeling, as the entry that FDA is currently detaining.”

    A TDCJ spokesperson said that the state had not yet purchased “any further drug from this supplier,” and would “reevaluate the situation at the conclusion of this case.”

    In 2013, a federal appeals court found that the FDA had “a mandatory obligation” to block all illegal shipments of the drug. Since then, the FDA has maintained that it is “required to refuse entry” to the shipments.

    Last time around, Texas initially planned to buy from another Indian supplier, but the deal fell through when the supplier was raided by the Indian government. Its employees were all arrested for allegedly selling opioids and party drugs illegally to Americans and Europeans.

  • Texas A&M wins Energy grant to build power grid in India

    Texas A&M wins Energy grant to build power grid in India

    DALLAS (TIP): Texas A&M University has won a U.S. Department of Energy grant to help India improve its electrical power grid and add energy storage capacity.

    A&M is part of a team of scientists from U.S. and Indian government, universities and private companies that received almost $30 million to install new smart grid and energy storage technology to build an “advanced distribution grid.”

    The energy department grant is worth $7.5 million. India’s Ministry of Science and Technology covers the rest, officials said.

    The technology will help both countries modernize power grids, department of energy officials said.“This new consortium demonstrates the U.S. and Indian commitments to ensuring access to affordable and reliable energy in both countries,” Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a statement.

    U.S. participants include Texas A&M, Washington State University, MIT, University of Hawaii, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Snohomish County, Wash., Public Utility District, Washington power company Avista Corp., Kansas City engineering firm Burns and McDonnell, California-based power design company ETAP Operation Technology, Paris-based GE Grid Solutions, California solar and storage firm Clean Energy Storage, Zurich-based digital industrial conglomerate ABB, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

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  • NASA ORBITER DISCOVERS FROST ON MOON

    NASA ORBITER DISCOVERS FROST ON MOON

    WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists using data from NASA’s lunar orbiter have identified bright areas in craters near the Moon’s south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on the surface. The new evidence comes from an analysis that combined surface temperatures with information about how much light is reflected off the Moon’s surface.

    “We found that the coldest places near the Moon’s south pole are also the brightest places — brighter than we would expect from soil alone — and that might indicate the presence of surface frost,” said Elizabeth Fisher, the lead author of the study published in the journal Icarus.

    The icy deposits appear to be patchy and thin, and it is possible that they are mixed in with the surface layer of soil, dust and small rocks called the regolith. The researchers said they are not seeing expanses of ice similar to a frozen pond or skating rink. Instead, they are seeing signs of surface frost.

    Cold traps are permanently dark areas — located either on the floor of a deep crater or along a section of crater wall that does not receive direct sunlight — where temperatures remain below minus 163 degrees Celsius. Under these conditions, water ice can persist for millions or billions of years.

    Understanding the nature of these deposits has been one of the driving goals of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, which has been orbiting the Moon since 2009.

     Fisher, who carried out the analysis while at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and her colleagues found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature readings from LRO’s Diviner instrument with brightness measurements from the spacecraft’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA. In these comparisons, the coldest areas near the south pole also were very bright, indicating the presence of ice or other highly reflective materials.

    The researchers looked at the peak surface temperatures, because water ice won’t last if the temperature creeps above the crucial threshold.

    The study strengthens the case that there is frost in cold traps near the Moon’s south pole. So far, however, researchers have not seen the same signs near the Moon’s north pole.

    “What has always been intriguing about the Moon is that we expect to find ice wherever the temperatures are cold enough for ice, but that’s not quite what we see,” said Matt Siegler, a researcher with the Planetary Science Institute in Dallas, and a co-author on the study.

    Source: PTI

  • His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj of BAPS to arrive in North America

    His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj of BAPS to arrive in North America

    NEW YORK (TIP): The spiritual legacy of His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj continues in North America with the pending arrival of His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj in Atlanta, GA on June 22, 2017. Over the next three months, he will visit mandirs and inspire thousands of devotees in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Jose, New Jersey (Edison and Robbinsville), and Toronto, Canada. His visit will be filled with traditional celebrations, spiritual discourses, various seminars, and special events open to the community.

    Mahant Swami Maharaj imparting wisdom in Satsang Seminar

    Since the earthly departure of Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Mahant Swami Maharaj now continues the lifework and legacy of Pramukh Swami Maharaj as the sixth and current spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. He was born in 1933 in Madhya Pradesh, India. In 1961, at the age of 28, he was ordained as a swami and given the name of Sadhu Keshavjivandas by His Holiness Yogiji Maharaj, then guru and spiritual leader of BAPS.

    Yogiji Maharaj recognized his leadership abilities and bestowed upon him numerous responsibilities including appointing him as the mahant, or chief priest, of the BAPS Mandir in Mumbai, India. Thus, the name ‘Mahant Swami Maharaj.’

    After Yogiji Maharaj’s earthly departure, Mahant Swami Maharaj dedicated himself totally to Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the fifth Guru of BAPS. Under his guidance, Mahant Swami Maharaj relentlessly traveled to remote areas in India and abroad to inspire moral values and enlighten countless devotees. He was also called upon to be in the forefront during major celebrations and as a trusted advisor regarding critical decisions related to the organization.

    Pramukh Swami Maharaj was thoroughly pleased with Mahant Swami Maharaj’s virtues and devotion to Bhagwan Swaminarayan and his gurus as well as his affection to the devotees and care for their well-being. On July 20, 2012, in Ahmedabad, India in the presence of senior swamis of BAPS, Pramukh Swami Maharaj officially appointed Mahant Swami Maharaj as his successor.

    As the current Guru of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, Mahant Swami Maharaj has led by exemplifying devotion, humility, and selflessness. He visits with devotees around the world to nurture faith in all individuals, promote family values and unity, and strengthen communities small and large. Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s vision continues to be his driving force behind guiding spiritual activities and organizational efforts as well as pursuing development projects to advance youth programs.

    In the past year, he has continued his vicharan, or spiritual travels, throughout the world, and has thus far visited almost every major BAPS mandir in India and Africa. During his visit to the United States and Canada, he will attend numerous special celebrations including the ten-year anniversaries of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandirs in Atlanta,Toronto, and San Jose as well as a Murti Pratishta, a ritual to sanctify the murtis, for abhishekh in Robbinsville, NJ. After his three-month journey, he will continue onwards to the United Kingdom and the Far East regions.

    For more details regarding His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj’s North America visit, please visit www.baps.org/msm17na or follow #MahantSwami on social media.

    (Photographs and Press release by: BAPS North American Headquarters)

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