Fort Bend Diwali 2024 – An Indian Cultural Extravaganza
HOUSTON: An amazingly devout 4-hour Fort Bend Diwali 2024 (12th Annual Vedic Fair) organized at the Sugar Land Town Square on Sunday Oct 20th highlighted Indian Workshops, performances, Recitation and LIVE concert left the audiences transfixed right from the beginning to the very end of the show. The celebrations featured MC Yogi an internationally acclaimed […]
VFS Global Launches Seattle and Bellevue Centers for India Visa, OCI, Passport Services
SEATTLE: As part of its expanding service network for the Government of India, VFS Global has launched the Seattle center to manage visa, Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI), passport application, renunciation of Indian citizenship and Global Entry Program (GEP). Additionally, VFS will operate the Bellevue center, to extend assistance for members of the Indian community. […]
International Mother Language Day; Preservation of Languages is Challenging
by Bo Singh The International Mother Language Day is celebrated on February 21, but I got reminder this year a month earlier. Which was in form of a news item about the Canadian Government agreeing to settle class action claim “seeking reparations for the loss of language and culture brought on by Indian residential schools, […]
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas: Indore, Jan. 8-10, 2022
INDORE: January 9 commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa to India in 1915. To mark this day, the tradition of celebrating Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) started in 2003. Since 2015, under a revised format, PBD Convention has been organised once every two years. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Conventions have been organised till date. […]
Gandhi Jayanti Celebrations Marked on Oct. 2
By Dr. Nidhi Trehan It is a rare event in the diaspora when members of the social justice community congregate and celebrate visionaries such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, (known as “Mahatma” or “Great Soul”) and Martin Luther King Jr. on the same platform, but Austin-based community group, Friends of India, Texas (FIT) did just that on […]
India, Sewa Helping Ukraine Evacuation
HOUSTON: As airstrikes cause extensive damage and people flee Ukraine in large numbers, Sewa International volunteers in Europe have helped more than 3,200 individuals in the past six days to cross the border to reach safety. Sewa volunteers are working with another 3,680 people who have registered for evacuation through the Sewa helpline. Over 250 […]
Family of Four Found Frozen to Death near US-Canada Board
WINNIPEG: A family of four Indians from Gujarat — including a baby and a teenager — froze to death in -40F blizzard after walking for 11 hours through waist-high snow to illegally cross border into the US from Canada. Canadian police found the bodies Wednesday 33 feet from the border near Emerson, Manitoba, after the […]
73rd Republic Day Celebrated from the Himalayas to Houston
India’s 73rd Republic Day was celebrated with unbridled enthusiasm throughout the Indian diaspora — from the peaks of the Himalayas to Deccan plains of Hyderabad to our own City of Houston. The Indian tricolor was unfurled at the Indian Consulate, India House and Gujarati Samaj of Houston. In the evening, a celebration took place at […]
Indian Consular Services Outsourced to VFS Global
HOUSTON: In continuation of our Public Notice dated 3 November, 2020 https:// cgihouston.gov.in/listview/MTk3 regarding the appointment of VFS Global as the new Outsourcing Service Provider for Visa, OCI, Renunciation, Passport, Global Entry Programme (GEP) and Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) services for the Consulate General of India, Houston, it is informed that with effect from 13 […]
Richard Dawkins to Honor Javed Akhtar for Secularism
London: Their work has inspired and enlightened millions of people around the world and across generations. Their passionate advocacy for reason and their unapologetic questioning of religion and superstition have broken taboos and changed the cultural landscape. On October 24, these two champions of science and secularism will come together for the first time, as […]
5th International Day of Yoga Events Scheduled throughout Texas
BY MANU SHAH HOUSTON: The Consulate General of India, Houston in collaboration with Friends of Yoga, is organizing several events across Texas to celebrate the 5th International Day of Yoga. This ancient Indian practice received unprecedented global attention four years ago when the United Nations recognized June 21st as the International Day of Yoga. An […]
ER Nurse and Executive Naushad Kermally Seeks Sugar Land City Council Position in a Runoff
BY POOJA SALHOTRA SUGAR LAND: Since settling in Sugar Land 23 years ago, Naushad Kermally has done everything he could to learn about the community, from graduating from the Sugar Land 101 program, to serving on the city’s Ethics Review Board. All the while, he’s been working a full-time as the Executive Vice President of […]
Modi Victory in India Touches Off Celebrations Across Houston
BY SARITA MEHTA HOUSTON: The elections in India were a highly anticipated event for the local supporters of the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party who had canvassed for him through calls to Indian voters through specially arranged phonebanks. When the final results came in on Thursday, May 23 showing the […]
Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu Presidential Candidate, in Houston
By Pooja Salhotra Houston: Service before self. That’s what Americans hope for in elected officials. Yet, we often are left with self-serving politicians who fail to address the challenges most Americans face – issues like affordable healthcare, access to quality education and a fair criminal justice system. But those issues were the subject of discussion […]
Yogi Patel to be President of Ekal Houston
HOUSTON: Yogesh (Yogi) Patel connects easily with people and has a flair for organization – two talents that will serve him well in his new capacity as Ekal’s Houston Chapter President for 2019-20. An inner recognition that he has been “blessed with opportunities in life and is in a position to do something for others” […]
Gitesh Desai Receives Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
BY MANU SHAH VARANASI: Gitesh Desai was reading an email from India’s Ministry of External Affairs but before the words could sink in, he got a call from Houston’s Consul General Dr. Anupam Ray congratulating him. Desai was one of the 28 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awardees of 2019. The normally eloquent Desai says he was […]
American jailed for attacking Sikh taxi driver with hammer in US
A man in the US has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for brutally attacking a 53-year-old Indian-origin Sikh taxi driver in Seattle last year. Swarn Singh was assaulted with a deadly weapon by Rory Benson in December 2017, according to Sikhs civil rights group The Sikh Coalition. Click here to read more… […]
Indian-American Rajesh Subramaniam named FedEx president
Indian-American Rajesh Subramaniam has been named as the president and chief executive officer of US multinational courier delivery giant FedEx. Subramaniam, currently the executive vice president, chief marketing and communications officer of FedEx Corporation, will assume his new role on January 1, 2019. Click here to read more… Credit: economictimes.indiatimes.com
Indian-origin professor in US accused of using his students as ‘servants’
WASHINGTON: A prominent Indian-origin professor in the US has been accused of exploiting his students as servants and compelling them to do his personal work, an American daily has claimed. Ashim Mitra, a longtime pharmacy professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, made his students tend his lawn, look after his dog and water the […]
