LAS VEGAS: The four-day 26th annual convention of Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) in Las Vegas between June 25 and 29 wrote a new chapter in the Indo-US relations and also vigorously reaffirmed Indian physicians' commitment and dedication to serve both the nations.

CHICAGO: You may deem it to be a miracle or you may call it a coincidence. It happened this year and it happened after an ardent prayer to Lord KrishnaHare Krishna temple in Chicago organizes its annual Rath Yatra festival every year around this time and this year it could not be an exception.

NEW YORK: The Mayor of Plano, Pat Evans, proclaimed June 22, 2008 to be Dr Sant Singh Virmani Day in the city of Plano, Texas, in honor of Dr Virmani, who is among the world's leading agricultural scientists in the field of hybrid rice and a resident of Plano.

WASHINGTON: A student at University of California-Santa Barbara, Chrissy Elles from Napa, California, has been named the recipient of the Campus Progress award for Best Student Organizing of an Event. This past spring Elles spent her time organizing an Alternative Spring Break that brought students from across the state of California together to learn and become active about climate change.

CHICAGO: Anila Sinha Foundation presented yet another spectacular event by two legends, Pandit Birju Maharaj and Ustad Zakir Hussein at Harris Theater for Music & Dance, Millennium Park with over eight hundred audiences present.

Dr Satish Anand, the president of the Federation of NY- New Jersey AAPI, strongly pitched for all inclusiveness of all AAPI chapters in Tri-state area as also for a greater involvement of the first generation of Indian American and Indian physicians/ residents here.

Dr Navin C Nanda, Profes- sor of Medicine and Di rector of the Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories at the University of Alabama at Birmingham,