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YLDP Essay: What Does Leadership Mean to Me?

YLDP Essay: What Does Leadership Mean to Me?

By Adeeba Mohammed In Latin, there’s a phrase that encompasses nature, literature, and human preference: omne trium perfectum. In English, this translates to ‘everything that comes in threes is perfect.’ There are three types of stable particles, three little pigs, and three tenets to leadership. The tiers of leadership involve the leader, the team, and […]

North South Regional Contests Help Underprivileged Children in India

North South Regional Contests Help Underprivileged Children in India

HOUSTON: North South Foundation is conducting its 2023 Houston regional contests on April 22 and 23, 2023 at the University of Houston Campus. North South Foundation promotes excellence in human endeavor by organizing Educational Contests for the kids in USA. Children who consistently participate in these contests have excelled in national level contests such as […]

International Mother Language Day; Preservation of Languages is Challenging

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, […]

Arya Samaj D.A. V School Children Celebrate India’s 74th Republic Day

Arya Samaj D.A. V School Children Celebrate India’s 74th Republic Day

HOUSTON: D.A.V Montessori & Elementary School a vision of Arya Samaj of Greater Houston was started 23 years ago. It is a unique one of its kind school in the whole of USA providing academic excellence with Spiritual growth combined with the knowledge and appreciation for heritage, culture and language while raising confident and resilient […]

YLDP Session with CEO of ‘Black Girls Do Engineer’

YLDP Session with CEO of ‘Black Girls Do Engineer’

Eternal Gandhi Museum Honors Fort Bend County Judge and Commissioners

Eternal Gandhi Museum Honors Fort Bend County Judge and Commissioners

HOUSTON: Opening in the Fall 2023 Eternal Gandhi Museum Houston, EGMH, will be the first ever full fledged museum in North America, dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi. The museum’s goal is to preserve and proliferate the greatest and most incredible legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, “Nonviolent Conflict Resolution.” Please visit www.egmh.org to learn more about this exciting new […]

Stop! Think Before You Click

Stop! Think Before You Click

By Masood Ahmed With the internet ruling at the fingertips of every individual and organization, the activities and transactions have become more prone to cyber-attacks. Every individual must become familiar with a variety of today’s common cyberthreats, by learning how to spot a cyberattack, an individual can make smarter security decisions and prevent attacks. Cyber […]

NRI Scientist Dr. Samba Reddy Wins Texas A&M Regents Professor Award

NRI Scientist Dr. Samba Reddy Wins Texas A&M Regents Professor Award

COLLEGE STATION: NRI scientist Dr. Samba Reddy is named for the Texas A&M University System Regents Professor Award, which is the highest honor bestowed by the System on faculty members. https://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/two-texas-am-health-faculty-named-regents-professors/ The TAMUS Board of Regents honors faculty whose performance in scholarship has been exemplary and distinguished. Dr. Reddy earned this coveted title for making […]

YLDP Session with Judge Ravi Sandill

YLDP Session with Judge Ravi Sandill

HOUSTON: Last Saturday, YLDP Houston had wonderful interactive session with Harris County District Civil Court Judge Ravi K. Sandill. For last 11 years, Judge Ravi K. Sandill had sessions on leadership with various topics with young leaders of YLDP and encouraging them. He also offered YLDP Students high school internships and later some of them became practicing lawyers at […]

Teach for America Alumnus Spearheads Health Science and Career Exploration

Teach for America Alumnus Spearheads Health Science and Career Exploration

HOUSTON: When Nabeel Ahmad, of Houston, taught at Sharpstown High School as a Teach For America (TFA) Houston corps member, he was surprised by the lack of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related opportunities available to his students. As a corps member with TFA Houston, Nabeel was dedicated to spending two years teaching in […]

Brij & Sunita Agrawal Donate $1 Million for UH Sugar Land

Brij & Sunita Agrawal Donate $1 Million for UH Sugar Land

By Juhi Varma HOUSTON: The University of Houston received a $1 million donation from Sugar Land entrepreneur Brij Agrawal and his wife Sunita to fund new lab equipment at the UH College of Technology building in Sugar Land, the school announced Tuesday. The building’s ground-floor auditorium will be named the Brij and Sunita Agrawal Auditorium. “I am thrilled to know […]

Houston Livestock & Rodeo Scholarships

Houston Livestock & Rodeo Scholarships

HOUSTON: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo officials announced that 29 graduate-level college students will receive a total of $464,590 in educational funding through the Rodeo’s Graduate Assistantship Program. These funds will support 26 students pursuing master’s degrees and three doctoral students for the 2022-2023 academic year. “Supporting agricultural research at Texas universities that offer some […]

‘Diwali in My New Home’: A Picture Book about Celebrating the Festival in a New Country

‘Diwali in My New Home’: A Picture Book about Celebrating the Festival in a New Country

HOUSTON: This Diwali comes with a picture book, Diwali In My New Home, a story about a little girl Priya, who loves being with family and friends to watch fireworks and celebrate Diwali. But this year Priya and her parents are living in the United States, and no one seems to know about the holiday. […]

2022 Mahatma Gandhi Week Speech Contest Participants Share Values

2022 Mahatma Gandhi Week Speech Contest Participants Share Values

HOUSTON: 2022 Mahatma Gandhi Week Speech Contest was held at Arya Samaj Greater Houston on Saturday, September 24, 2022. In the picture you see participants, judges, and organizers. Many know him as Mahatma and many more know him as Father of India. But the world knows him as an apostle of peace and non-violence. Anyone […]

YLDP 2022-23 Orientation for 40 Enthusiastic Students

YLDP 2022-23 Orientation for 40 Enthusiastic Students

A Happy Beginning for Chinmaya Mission of Houston’s Bala Vihar

A Happy Beginning for Chinmaya Mission of Houston’s Bala Vihar

By Shalini Konde HOUSTON: Arriving at Houston’s Chinmaya Prabha facility on the pleasant morning of September 11th, 2022, brought with it the joy and warmth of meeting friends and families after a long time. While BalaVihar had continued uninterrupted over the past three years via online classes, one could feel the buzz of renewed energy […]

Archana Bharadwaj Wins Young Citizen Award from Exchange Club of Sugar Land

Archana Bharadwaj Wins Young Citizen Award from Exchange Club of Sugar Land

SUGAR LAND: First Colony Middle School student, Archana Bharadwaj, has been honored as the Young Citizen of the Month by the Exchange Club of Sugarland. The award recognizes her commitment to community service, leadership and academic achievement. A high achiever both academically and in the Indian Cultural space, Archana is also an elegant Bharatnatyam dancer. […]

Financial Education: Planning for Kids’ Education Funding

Financial Education: Planning for Kids’ Education Funding

By Ash Malhotra and Salil Patil Education costs (Tuition Plus Boarding) in the US have been growing consistently at the rate of 6-7% for the past 25 years. That means that education costs are doubling every 9-10 years…(Remember the Rule of 72). Parents need to be aware of this and plan for an education fund […]

DAV Sanskriti School: Yajnopaveeta & Vidyaarambh Sanskaars for 2022-23 Students

DAV Sanskriti School: Yajnopaveeta & Vidyaarambh Sanskaars for 2022-23 Students

By Acharya Bramdeo HOUSTON: DAV Sanskriti School (DAVSS) marked the start of in-person classes on with the Yajnopavīta & Vedārambha Sanskārs for students joining the 2022-23 session and India’s Independence Day Celebrations, after a 2-year break due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Teachers, volunteers, members, parents and well-wishers joined this solemn ceremony in prayers to […]

Sewa International Interns Complete 3,200 Hours of Community Service

Sewa International Interns Complete 3,200 Hours of Community Service

Sewa International Houston Chapter hosted an Internship Gala for their “Get Inspired Houston” (GIH) and “Leadership Development through Community Engagement” (LEAD) interns on August 12 at the T.E. Harman Center in Sugar Land. The event was designed to celebrate the many accomplishments of over 50 interns this summer. The interns accumulated over 3,200 hours of […]