NEW YORK: Outraged by a high school student setting afire a Sikh schoolmate's "patka" in New Jersey, the community has demanded an inquiry into the unprovoked attack and asked the school to foster religious harmony. Police are investigating the incident which occurred on May 5 in Hightstown High School in Mercer County in New Jersey during a fire drill.

FREMONT: The Gupta family held a press conference on May 7 in The Golden Peacock Banquet Fremont to clarify the circumstances of the death of Kulbhushan Gupta, and clear their grievances against San Francisco Chronicle, who were first to publish about Gupta’s murder with a highly fabled story causing immense grief and agony to the already grieving family and friends.

NEW YORK: The United Nations has expressed its "disappointment and frustration" at the limited access to Myanmar where some 1.5 million victims of Nargis cyclone are in desperate need of relief supplies and warned that more people will die due to this crisis.

WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it was prepared to work with countries like India and China to provide humanitarian assistance in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar if Yangon did not allow a direct entry to its military for relief operations.

WASHINGTON: After President George W Bush's remarks linking Indians' food habits to rising prices of commodities globally, the US is now faulting India and China for the surge in oil prices to record levels. The White House also sought to calm the frayed nerves in India to Bush's remarks that the rising prosperity of it's large middle class is contributing to rising foods

ATLANTA, GA: The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA), through its Chairman Ashwin "Ash" Patel, Vice Chairman Tarun S. Patel, Secretary ChandraKant "C.K." Patel, attended an exclusive, invitation-only event with President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House May 1, along with approximately 250 of the most recognized Asian/Pacific American leaders in the United States.

SAN FRANCISCO: TiE Silicon Valley held its first entrepreneurial mixers at the Thirsty Bear Brewing Company on Howard Street in San Francisco, California on March 11 and April 30.

LOS ANGELES: "Though choosing a dissertation for our prestigious award is not like picking the Oscars it certainly is more democratic," quipped Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, who holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian History at UCLA and is the chair of the Sardar Patel Dissertation Evaluation Committee.

TORONTO: "Live a righteous life." This was the message of the pioneering rocket scientist and former President of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to the children and youth during a special welcome assembly held at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir and Canadian Museum of Cultural Heritage of Indo-Canadians in Toronto which Dr Kalam visited on Saturday, April 19.

WASHINGTON: Several ranking members of the US Congress and senior Bush administration officials gave a patient ear to President Dr Hemant Patel and members of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) on a variety of issues that affect not only Indian-American physicians but the medical fraternity as a whole.