BUSINESS
AAHOA seeks political clout
Though Asian American Hotel Owners Association members own more than half of America's economy hotels and substantial number of luxury hotels, hardly a congressman or senator knows about the association, many of its leaders complain.
NEWS
'Many of us do not want to join African Americans in any protest'
'We forget that we are reaping the fruits of the civil liberties victories
African Americans won for all minorities in the 1960s and 1970s,' one Indian American protestor at the anti-John Rocker demonstration in Atlanta said.
NEWS
Ministers back campaign against Canadian tax on new immigrants
Herb Dhaliwal, Canada's cabinet minister for fisheries, and Maria Minna, the international co-operation minister, are backing a campaign by a coalition of
immigrant and refugee advocates against a tax on new immigrants.
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Bombay boy hosts tech show for CNET
Hari Sreenivasan, who began his journalism career with alternative radio, will co-host CNET TV.COM, the syndicated technology news programme seen in over 120 markets all over the US.
Correa among 9 jurors to select design for King monument in DC
The organisers of the monument project said Indian architect Charles Correa's connection with the Gandhi project was significant. Martin Luther King, Jr, was inspired by the Mahatma's non-violent protest movement, and used Gandhian tactics in the 1960s to win civil rights for African Americans -- and by extension, all minorities.
Organisation Offers New Lease of Life to Indians
To many people like Dave, who battle addiction, spousal problems and other related problems in New York and the neighbouring states, the Nav Nirmaan Foundation has, over the last decade, become a major source of recovery. "What is very significant about an organisation like this," he says, "is it is run by South Asian professionals. They understand our minds and hearts."
Anti-Hinduism Booklet: Southern Baptists Declare War on 7 Congressmen
The Southern Baptists, having refused to back down from the infamous
booklet against Hinduism it mailed to 40,000 of its churches and affiliated
institutions, are now denouncing seven members of the Congress who
wrote them a strongly-worded letter against the booklet, demanding its withdrawal.
Vedanta in Real Life
For a long time Lakshmi Sukumar has been telling her guru, Swami Chidananda, that she would love to get involved in a humanitarian cause on a long-going basis. Last week not only did she give something tangible to an Indian family, but she also got her family involved in the act.
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