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VOLUME 11 ISSUE 4 | #NYC | Jan 27
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VOLUME 5 ISSUE 4 | #Dallas | Jan 27
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PRESIDENTS AREN’T CEOS ~ On the meaning and implications of the country’s first true businessman president
With respect to the best, unlike a president who has spent decades cultivating the hard skills that lend themselves to complex bureaucratic management and quantitative acumen, Trump consistently boasts of shunning hard analysis and expert opinion […]
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Redefining Leadership ~ Obama makes way for Trump, and shallowness
America is going through, what historian Arthur M Schlesinger Jr. calls “cycles” in American history, when the tide of action, passion, idealism and reform gives way to seasons of drift, quiescence, hedonism, and cynicism. The cheapness […]
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Modi’s Raisina Dialogue
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spelt out the nation’s foreign priorities at the second Raisina Dialogue, an initiative by the current government which it hopes will eventually rival the conclaves in Munich and Singapore (Shangrila Dialogue). For […]
India
INOC, USA expresses strong objection at ‘Modi’ replacing Gandhiji on KVIC calendar
NEW YORK (TIP): Indian National Overseas Congress, USA strongly opposes the fact that the Prime Minister has replaced Mahatma Gandhi on the wall calendars and table diaries issued by the Government-owned Khadi Village Industries Commission […]
Indian Americans
Indian American community has come of age, says Ambassador Sarna at FIA-led reception
India’s new Ambassador to the US Navtej Singh Sarna feels that biggest change in the Indian community in the US is that ‘The community has come of age.’ He said that during a welcomereception hosted […]
India
Air India to start Delhi-DC non-stop flight from July
NEW YORK (TIP): Come July, Washington’s Dulles International airport will become Air India’s fifth U.S. destination, joining Chicago O’Hare, New York JFK, Newark Liberty and San Francisco. Air India would be the only carrier offering […]
Education
Raghuram Rajan recognized with distinguished service professorship
Former governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan has been named the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance by University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Another Indian American economist Oeindrila […]
Indian Americans
Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal won’t attend Donald Trump’s Inauguration
Ms Jayapal said in a statement on Sunday, January15, that she will remain in her Seattle district to “be with constituents who are immigrants and immigrant advocates to hear their stories and concerns, and discuss […]
Indian Americans
Indian-American Jailed for $1 Million Insider Trading Scheme
An Indian-American man has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for a $1 million insider trading scheme involving the failed Apollo Tyres bid to takeover Cooper Tire, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Amit Kanodia, 49, […]
Indian Americans
Indian American Student Wins Big in Literary Contest on Dental Health
NEW YORK(TIP): Arth Patel, an Indian American Student at The UCLA School of Dentistry was the winner of the first annual My Kool Smiles Scholarship Fund essay contest, sponsored by the Benevis Foundation. Arth earned […]
Business & Economics
Indian American Ajit Pai tipped for FCC Chair?
Donald Trump met Ajit Pai fueling speculation about his role in the incoming administration. NEW YORK (TIP): Washington: US presidentelect Donald Trump met Indian-American Ajit Pai, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, fueling speculation about […]
Politics
Inauguration of the 45th President of the US in pictures
On January 20, 2017, the peaceful transfer of American power took place in Washington, DC, as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama passed the office to President-elect Donald J. Trump. Hundreds of […]
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Trump takes oath as 45th President of the United States of America
Says he is restoring power back from Washington to people and “Together we will make America Great again” Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States Friday, January 20, as he was administered […]
Politics
Thousands Attend Women’s March On Washington
Embed from Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of people protesting Donald Trump’s presidency swarmed events in U.S. cities and around the world in a rebuke to an incoming president unlike any seen in modern times. […]
Politics
Optimistic Obama: ‘We’re going to be OK’
WASHINGTON (TIP): In his parting message before Donald Trump took over, President Barack Obama assured Americans that “we’re going to be OK” but vowed to protect US’ “core values” and speak up against issues like […]
Politics
President Trump begins his work
WASHINGTON (TIP): Immediately after taking oath, January 20, President Donald J Trump issued an executive order to minimize the Economic Burden of The Patient Protection (Obamacare) and Affordable Care Act, Pending Repeal. By another order, […]
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VOLUME 11 ISSUE 3 | #NYC | Jan 20
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The wilderness of mirrors – The allegations against Donald Trump, and the press conference that followed, will surely affect his presidency.
Jim Angleton would have loved this. Angleton, admired and despised in equal measure, was the legendary (or notorious) CIA director of counterintelligence in the 1960s and 1970s, who spent those years in a Captain Ahab-like […]
Asia
China frets and fumes: The latest Agni V test has not gone down well with the neighbor
When India first tested its three-stage Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Agni V on April 20, 2012, China’s reaction was remarkably restrained. “China and India are both emerging powers. We are not rivals, but cooperative partners. We […]
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Farewell, President Obama: A passionate reminder of US liberal values
Soaring oratory and strong emotions marked the farewell speech of the 45th US President, Barack Obama, 10 days before his successor is sworn in. The tradition dates back to President George Washington, reflecting the concerns […]
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Pravasi Bharatiya Divas closes; engagement extremely substantive, says government
BENGALURU (TIP): The three-day 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, a mega meet of the Indian disapora which saw its largest convergence, came to an end in the IT city on Monday, January 9, with the government […]
Europe
INDIANS SCORE BIG WITH QUEENS AMBASSADOR AWARDS
QUEENS, NY (TIP): A borough wide search by the Times Ledger Newspapers identified five members of the Indian Community who merited the Queens Ambassadors Award “Honoring immigrants who make Queens great” which will be bestowed […]
Indian Americans
Four Indian Americans chosen for Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
WASHINGTON (TIP): On January 9, President Barack Obama named 102 scientists and researchers including Four Indian-Americans as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the […]