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Jagtar ‘Jay’ Chaudhry Indian American serial entrepreneur Jagtar ‘Jay’ Chaudhry, CEO of cloud security firm ZScaler; and his wife P. Jyoti Chaudhry, have established the Chaudhry Family Scholarship Fund with a $4 million gift to the University of Cincinnati. It will support first-generation, Pell-eligible students (students with exceptional financial need), in UC’s Gen-11MPACT House, a…

US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Indian-American scientist Jay Bhattacharya, a vocal critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the country’s top health research and funding institutions.Trump in a statement released on Tuesday said, Bhattacharya will collaborate closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s nominee…

SINGAPORE: A 73-year-old Indian national was charged in a Singapore court on Monday for allegedly molesting four women while on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from the US to Singapore. Balasubramanian Ramesh is accused of molesting one of the women four times and is said to have targeted the three others once each on…

Indian-Americans organised a protest rally in California’s Silicon Valley, and called upon officials to condemn human rights abuses and ensure the protection of Hindu minorities by holding the governments of Canada and Bangladesh responsible.Protesters chanted slogans including “Stop Khalistani terrorism, protect Canadian-Hindus” and “Stop Islamist terrorism, protect Bangladeshi-Hindus”.Community leaders strongly criticised the inadequate response to…

Dr Darshana Patel, who has won the state assembly election from California’s 76th district in San Diego, defeating her Republican opponent Kristie Bruce-Lane, is no newbie to public life and community leadership. “I am the daughter of Indian immigrants and I understand the challenges that families in my district face from rising cost of living…

Amid ongoing diplomatic tensions, the Indian Consulate in Canada on Thursday cancelled several scheduled consular camps due to security concerns. The decision came after warnings from local security agencies about their “continued inability to provide minimum security protection” for the events’ organisers.Also read: Brampton bans protest near places of worshipIn a statement, the Consulate General…

Indian origin Gursimran Kaur found dead in Walmart (Image Credit: GoFundMe site) NEW DELHI: Canadian police on Monday announced that the death of a 19-year-old Indian-origin girl, whose body was found inside Walmart bakery oven last month, was not the result of foul play. Gursimran Kaur was found dead inside a walk-in oven at the…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday explained the rationale behind Canada’s new immigration cap, acknowledging past mistakes in how the system was managed. “We made some mistakes,” Trudeau in a 7-minute YouTube video referred to how certain actors in the immigration system exploited vulnerable people. “Really bad actors who outright exploit people, who target vulnerable…

A desperate attempt to cross the Canadian border into the United States ended tragically for an Indian family of four in January 2022 when Jagdish Patel, his wife Vaishaliben, and their two young children, 11-year-old Vihangi and three-year-old Dharmik, succumbed to the brutal cold after walking for hours in -38°C temperatures. Coordinating things in Canada,…

Sharath Jois, a world-renowned yoga master known for teaching Ashtanga yoga, died on Monday in Virginia at the age of 53. Jois, the grandson of Ashtanga founder Krishna Pattabhi Jois, suffered a heart attack while hiking with students near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. Despite CPR efforts, he was pronounced dead after emergency…