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The 2017 South Asian Spelling Bee has traveled to Illinois and Washington, past weekend with stops in Chicago and Seattle.With a huge turnout, the Bee has attracted top talents as well as young and new spellers who competed for the coveted prizes and titles. In the Chicago Regional, Nilla Rajan...

Kavita Akula, an Indian basketball player aged 21, has become the first Indian-born female basketball player to get a full scholarship to a Division 1 (D1) college — Grand Canyon University — in the United States.D1 is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic...

Dhruv Batra, Pavithra Prabhakar, Padmini Rangamani and Kaushik Sengupta, four Indian American researchers were awarded the 2017 Young Investigator Award by the Office of Naval Research’s Science and Technology Organization. Batra was recognized for “Explainable and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems” in Machine Learning, Reasoning and Intelligence program. He is an assistant...

Akshaj Mehta,Indian American boy, aged 11, was honored by the American Red Cross in Sacramento.Mehta, was honored as the “Youth Hero of the Year” at the American Red Cross’ 100 Years of Sacramento County Heroes Presentation, has the distinction of having three books published. His first, “Super Mouse,” was published...

Indian-American, Rishi U. Shah, 31, who is a media and technology entrepreneur and investor and the CEO and founder of Outcome Health, has become the latest young Indian-American billionaire in Chicago.The company was founded along with his partner Shradha Agarwal, that shares health information and health intelligence “during critical...

Indian Americans Parth Shukla and Kapil Wattamwar have launched an online company called Beenthru where not only you can seek advice but also give some too. Beenthru is a place where you can find one-on-one advice from people who have already “been through” the same situations before. “Beenthru is a...

Mansimran Singh Kahlon, a Democrat, who is running for the Virginia House of Delegates from the 13th District which encompasses largely Gainesville and Manassas Park in Prince William County has come to the seventh annual ikPunjabi Mela at the sprawling Bull Run Regional Park on a warm and windy...

2017 Board of the Association of American Physicians have elected four Indian Americans: Naga Chalasani, Nikhil Munshi, Sanjay Saint and Anil Sood. Chalsani, of Indiana University School of Medicine, is leading in the fields of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and drug-induced liver injury. He has published over 180 original papers,...

NASA has introduced 12 new astronauts in a tweet on June 7 and among them is an Indian American named Lieutenant Colonel Raja Chari. Chari is from Iowa and he has graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1999 with Bachelor’s degrees in Astronautical Engineering and Engineering Science. He...

Indian AmericanAlderman Ameya Pawar, the candidate for Illinois governor, along with other gubernatorial candidates, has joined hundreds of SEIU Local 1 members and O’Hare Airport workers for a gubernatorial forum to discuss about the solutions for the issues facing in Illinois. “You’re an Indian.” tweets Katie McHugh for being called...