Uniting the power of diverse Indian Americans: Indiaspora

Stalwarts come together to harness the power of the Indian-American community. Aziz Haniffa reports. A cross-section of influential Indian American leaders from a diverse set of disciplines......

Akshaya Patra raises $41,000 for children

The Akshaya Patra Foundation USA's Chicago chapter raised over $41,000 to educate poor children in India during its annual Food for Education benefit at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, May 1.......

Deshpande, Fadia fund gallery of Indian art

With a gift of $500,000 from the Prashant H Fadia Foundation and the Deshpande Foundation, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has almost tripled its existing gallery space for......

India Abroad awardee in MIT list

Sonal Shah, the recipient of the India Abroad Person of the Year Award for 2003, is among 15 Indian Americans who have been chosen for this year's Massachesetts Institute of Technology Sloan's......

Deshpande to co-chair Obama's advisory council

India-born Gururaj Deshpande, chairman of Tejas Networks, A123 and Akshaya Patra, has been appointed co-chairman of United States President Barack Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation......

Clinton lauds IITians' role in global development

Hailing the role the Indian Institutes of Technology have "played in the growth of India and the United States" and expressing his "immense respect" for the academic and humanitarian work carried......

Kochi CEO summit opens on Friday

As a prelude to the CEO summit, being attended by President Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, on Friday, nearly 80 captains of the industry met in Kochi on Thursday to discuss ways to transform India into an......

Kochi set for Amritavarsham 50

Kochi is gearing up for the Amritavarsham50 celebrations, an international congregation that would involve representatives from all 191 UN member countries.To be held from September 24 to 27 at the......

The actor who renounced success

Dinesh RahejaVinod Khanna is possibly the only male star in the Hindi film industry who forsook fame at the height of success. After a long string of hits in 1977-1978, Vinod was Amitabh Bachchan's......