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J. J. Kapur, an Indian American and a junior at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, has won the National Speech and Debate Tournament after his speech has won the competition in the category of original oratory. Kapur’s persuasive speech that was titled ‘Let’s Dance’, talked about his...

A seventh grade student from Chippewa Middle School of Des Plaines School District 62, Pratiksha Bhattacharyya has been named as the state merit winner for Illinois in the landmark 10th annual Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is the nation’s premier science...

Four Indian Americans along with one Indian had won the major awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, on May 19. The four Indian American winners are Pratik Naidu from Virginia, in the category of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Adam Nayak from Oregon, in the...

14-year-old from DeWitt Perry Middle School, Pranay Varada of Irving, Texas, clinched the 2017 champion at the 29th annual National Geographic Bee held on May 17, at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. Another 14-year-old Thomas Wright of Mequon, Wisconsin, an eighth-grader at University School of Milwaukee, took the...

Indian-American attorney Neal Katyal has argued the most number of cases before the Supreme Court in 2016, a new study released on May 8, revealed. This information was confirmed by Katyal’s law firm Hogan Lovells. Katyal, a partner at Hogan Lovells, is the former Acting U.S. Solicitor General during the...

Including Kabir Sidhu, who has become the US Junior Silver under-13 squash champion, several Indian American students of Cedar Hill Prep School in Somerset, New Jersey, have excelled at various competitions. Indian American Student Wins Congressional District Art Competition Earlier, winners of the Cedar Hill Prep History Bee (grades 4 –...

Including an Indian American, researchers have developed a computer-driven automated drill that could perform a type of complex cranial surgery 50 times faster — decreasing operating time from two hours to 2.5 minutes. A translabyrinthine surgery is performed to expose slow-growing, benign tumours that form around the auditory nerves. In...

Mann Patel, an Indian American student from Fremont Ross High School, Marion, Ohio, has been placed third in the 4th Congressional District Art Competition, held in Washington, DC. The Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition, each spring, to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation...

Indian American athlete aged 101has been dubbed as the “miracle from Chandigarh” by New Zealand media as she celebrated her latest gold medal with a modest little dance after winning the 100-meter sprint at the World Masters Games on Monday. Indian Americans Start White House Petition For Kulbhushan Jadhav Man Kaur,...

Indian American, Bhavesh Patel native of New Jersey has been named as the new chairman of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) at the group’s annual convention in San Antonio, Texas. “One of the greatest accomplishments of his life,” Patel said in the Cinnaminson Patch that, AAHOA is...