NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has slapped notices against yoga guru Ramdev and his two trusts for alleged violations of foreign exchange laws.The notices, relating to alleged unaccounted payment of Rs 60 lakh, have been issued to the Divya Yog Mandir Trust and Patanjali Yog Peeth Trust.The notices to Ramdev came just after the ED had slapped a...
Sonu Sood lends glamour to IndiafestFREMONT, CA: The Festival of India and Parade began as a local event in the Bay Area 20 years ago. Today it has grown to become a national event attracting participants from as far away as New York and Chicago, as well as across Canadian border.
Hosted by the Federation of Indian Associations of Northern...
CHICAGO: Rains or shine, the Indians in Chicagoland do make it a point to come out to attend the India Day Parade which has been organized traditionally by the Federation of Indian Organizations (FIA) for the past many years in the heart of Mini India town, Devon Avenue.
The expectations were belied this time and that was baffling considering that...
CHICAGO: The Gala India Day celebration banquet hosted by one of the oldest ethnic organizations in Chicago land, the Federation of Indian Associations Chicago held at the Meadows Club in Rolling Meadows Friday, August 17 outshone many similar events held on the occasion, including its own Parade that it held on Devon Avenue the next day.
The painstaking manner...
The Federation of Indian Associations, Chicago hosted a ceremonial Indian tri-color flag hoisting in the heart of Chicago's downtown on the Daley Plaza with State Senator Ira Silverstein, Alderman Debra Silverstein of 50th Ward and Alderman Ameya Pawar lending hands in hoisting one of the largest Indian flags atop the towering pole in the middle of the Daley Plaza in...
CHICAGO: The spirit of patriotism was truly depicted at the 66th Independence Day celebration banquet on Saturday, August 18 and at the Grand Parade held on Sunday, August 19 hosted by Federation of Indian Association (New) Chicago.
The Banquet included a spectacular cultural program which took place at The Meadows Club, Rolling Meadows, a northwest Chicago suburb. Both events were...
CHICAGO: It was celebration of India Day with a difference at Indo American Center (IAC), a no profit social organization in Chicago.
This celebration was the mark of a new era of the combined celebration of the Indian and Pakistani Independence Days on August 9. Interestingly, it was not to raise funds, but a genuine tribute to the native lands...
NEW YORK: Members of the Indian National Overseas Congress (I), USA have made the India Day Parade in New York City all the more colorful with their strong participation marching under a banner saluting a democratic and secular India on its 65th anniversary of Independence. The marchers waved the tri-color flag of India along with the Congress and U.S....
NEW YORK: For the first time in its history, leaders of the American Association of Physicians of Indian origin (AAPI) led the India Day Parades in Dallas, TX on Sunday, August 12 and in New York City on August 19. Applause from the crowds reached a crescendo as the first ever colorfully decorated float bearing AAPI's name, symbol, and...
ST LOUIS: Celebrating India's national historical events has become a tradition with the Indian community in the greater St. Louis region since the inception of the India Association of St. Louis (IAS) in 1968.
This year too, IAS successfully hosted Independence Day event at the Mahatma Gandhi Cultural Center (MGC) on Sunday, August 11, celebrating India's 65 years of independence.
The...