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12 June, 2020

Indian American Surgeon led team performs Lung Transplant on COVID-19 Patient

CHICAGO (TIP): For the first time, surgeons led by an Indian American at Northwestern Medicine performed a double-lung transplant on…

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12 June, 2020

Two Indian American University of Illinois Alumni Awarded Fulbright Grants

  URBANA-CHAMPAIGN , IL (TIP): Two Indian Americans are among Fourteen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students and recent alumni…

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12 June, 2020

Indian American Stanford Professor Receives Outstanding Leader Award

NEW YORK (TIP): The Faculty Women’s Forum, which acts to enable women faculty members to thrive at Stanford, presented its…

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12 June, 2020

Indian-American soil scientist Rattan Lal gets 2020 World Food Prize

NEW YORK (TIP): Eminent Indian-American soil scientist Rattan Lal was on Thursday, June 11  named this year’s recipient of the…

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12 June, 2020

COVID-19 death toll in US could hit 2,00,000-mark by September: Indian-American professor

NEW YORK (TIP): The total death toll in the US from the novel coronavirus pandemic could hit the grim figure…

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12 June, 2020

FIA Chairman Ramesh Patel Cremated

Prof. I.S.Saluja NEW YORK  (TIP): Ramesh Patel, Chairman for life of Federation of Indian Associations NY/NJ/ CT (FIA), the organization…

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5 June, 2020

Indian American Vivek Lall Named Chief of General Atomics Global Corporation

SAN DIEGO (TIP): Dr. Vivek Lall, probably the most known face in the Indian aerospace and defense industry and the most prominent…

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5 June, 2020

Indian American CEO of Google Sundar Pichai backs racial equality

Google and YouTube put a black ribbon on their home page in the US NEW YORK (TIP): Google stands in…

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5 June, 2020

Indian-origin doctor Rajesh Gupta on COVID-19 frontline found dead in UK hotel

LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin doctor working on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic at a UK hospital was found dead…

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5 June, 2020

Indian American Rahul Dubey Hailed as ‘Hero’ after Sheltering Protesters in DC

WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian American Rahul Dubey emerged as an overnight hero in the US after he opened doors to people,…

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5 June, 2020

Indian American Indra Nooyi Named Full-Term Member of MIT Board of Trustees

BOSTON (TIP): PepsiCo’s former chairperson and CEO of Indian origin, Indra Nooyi is among nine full-term members of The MIT…

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5 June, 2020

Indian American Author Lilly Irani Wins Outstanding Book Award by International Communication Association

SAN DIEGO (TIP): Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, UC San Diego has been honored with Outstanding Book Award by International Communication…

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5 June, 2020

Indian Origin Film Director Krishnendu Majumdar Named Chair of BAFTA

LONDON (TIP): The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) appointed Krishnendu Majumdar as its new Chair. In doing…

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5 June, 2020

Indian American Led Researchers Develop Experimental Rapid COVID-19 Test

NEW YORK (TIP): Scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) developed an experimental diagnostic test for COVID-19…

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5 June, 2020

Indian American SAP Vet Abdul Razack Hired by Google Cloud for New Tech Solutions Role

NEW YORK (TIP): Former SAP chief product officer Abdul Razack has been hired by Google Cloud for a senior executive…

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29 May, 2020

2 Indian-origin men jailed for ‘largest’ bust with 20 million pounds of drugs in UK

LONDON (TIP): Two Indian-origin men have been sentenced to a total of 34 years in what Scotland Yard described as…

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29 May, 2020

NRIA DONATES $2,500 TO CORONAVIRUS TESTING SITE IN EDISON, NJ

EDISON, NJ (TIP)   NRIA of Secaucus, NJ, a leading luxury multi-family real estate developer, private equity investment manager, and EB-5…

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29 May, 2020

A Webinar on Augmenting US-India Healthcare Relations under Covid Challenge

NEW YORK (TIP): Global Indian Trade and Cultural Council, USA in collaboration with Consulate General of India, NY has started…

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29 May, 2020

Indian American Nayan Parikh named a member of de Blasio’s real estate reopening council

NEW YORK (TIP): Indian American Nayan Parikh , owner of Ashnu International, Inc. an award winning, premier/MWBE Construction and Management…

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29 May, 2020

Indian American Rutgers Student Tanvi Banota Named 2020 Goldwater Scholar

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (TIP): Tanvi Banota, a rising junior majoring in cell biology and neuroscience at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has been…

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29 May, 2020

Indian American Senate Candidate Announces Campaign to Label Drugs with Country of Origin

TRENTON, NJ (TIP): Republican Senate candidate Rik Mehta, a pharmacist and former FDA consumer safety officer from New Jersey, announced…

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29 May, 2020

Indian American IBM Scientist Rajiv Joshi Wins Inventor of the Year Award

NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-American scientist Rajiv Joshi has bagged the prestigious Inventor of the Year award in recognition of his…

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29 May, 2020

Indian American Princeton Student Wins Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal

PRINCETON, NJ (TIP): Princeton senior Preeti Iyer has been honored for her service to the Class of 2020 and to…

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29 May, 2020

Indian American Led Team Develops Low-Cost Ventilator

ATLANTA, GA (TIP): An Indian American led team has developed a low-cost, portable ventilator meant to help doctors around the…

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29 May, 2020

Indian American Professor Brinda Sarathy Receives ACLS Fellowship

CLAREMONT, CA  (TIP): Pitzer College Professor of Environmental Analysis and the Director of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California…

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22 May, 2020

Indian American Vrinda Marwah Earns Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

AUSTIN, TX (TIP): Vrinda Marwa, a Doctoral Candidate of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin is among the winners…

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22 May, 2020

Indian Origin Nobel Laurate Venki Ramakrishnan Elected to American Philosophical Society

NEW YORK (TIP): Venkatraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist of Indian origin,is among 34 new members recently elected to…

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22 May, 2020

Indian American Physician Sudheer S Chauhan Succumbs to Deadly Corona Virus

NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Sudheer S Chauhan, a kindhearted physician of Indian Origin, who had dedicated his life at the…

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22 May, 2020

Indian-origin South Africans’ ‘musical’ initiative to fight coronavirus blues becomes global hit

JOHANNESBURG(TIP): The 'SA Musicians against COVID-19' project helps artists to showcase their talent in Indian music and song, sometimes accompanied…

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15 May, 2020

Indian American Attorney Shot Dead in Georgia

ATLANTA (TIP): An Indian origin senior staff attorney at Cobb County Magistrate was shot and killed May 9 morning while…

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