SAN FRANCISO: Since its formation as a non-profit organization in 2007, Global Initiative for Today & Tomorrow's Education Inc (GIFTTE), has contributed to schools and students by providing financial assistance to those who are less privileged.

CHICAGO: The Chicgoland Punjabi community of Metropolitan Chicago gets ready to celebrate Vaisakhi festival with a big bang at "Rangla Punjab 2008" show being organized by Punjabi Cultural Society of Chicago (PCS) on Saturday April 12 at

WALNUT, CA: Melodious sounds filled the air as thousands of people gathered at the Shri Guru Singh Sabha- Walnut to celebrate the 540th Nanakshahi year. People from Artesia to Riverside came to celebrate a new year and a new start by taking part in joyous religious festivities.

CHICAGO: Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine in Springfield and Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding February 21 for fostering academic collaboration and improving rural healthcare.

FREMONT: Air India felicitated its top consolidators in an award ceremony on February 28 at the Bombay Garden restaurant in Fremont. Along with chief guest P. S. Rajagopal, Regional Manager, USA and Canada,  

CHICAGO: Many an NRI has been facing and are also complaining about poor or rude treatment meted out to them at the hands of Indian consulates and Embassies in foreign countries. The Consulates at cities in America are also allegedly not free from such a criticism.

NEW YORK: Honoring the next generation of American innovators, Intel Corporation announced the winners of the Intel Science Talent Search. Shivani Sud, 17, of Durham, North Carolina, won the top award, a $100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation.

ST. LOUIS: Sathwik Katragadda (11) a sixth-grader at Fort Zumwalt West Middle School in O'Fallon MO was declared as the winner of 22nd Annual Post-Dispatch/Maryville University Spelling Bee Contest in Saint Louis last week.

CHICAGO: There was a progressive political spirit in the Ramada Inn banquets with an estimated gathering of about 400 members. The Eighth District Democrats and Independents (EDDI), a nine year old organization for Responsive and responsible government in Illinois, held a meeting at Ramada inn in Wukeegan, a Chicago suburb, on March 4.