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May 30 NEWS Boy Jailed For 19 Days For Threatening Classmate The girl confessed that a classmate who was harassing her for the past year had carried his anger and rage far enough to create a web site called "Kill Leena" -- and many in school were logging on. NEWS Five Skinheads Enter Plea Bargain In Gurdwara Murder Accused of beating to death 65-year-old Nirmal Singh Gill, the temple's caretaker, over a year ago, the men are now prepared to enter a plea, which will spare the British Columbia state a huge amount of money and time in a protracted trial. NEWS Police Seek Information On Suspect In Salva Murder Case The Bergen County police is seeking a male Hispanic, between 20 to 30 years, about five foot seven inches, of medium build, with dark eyes and medium complexion. MEDIA Wharton Launches Electronic Publication With Mukul Pandya As Editor 'We will offer not only interesting stories by our professors and students but also the alumni, the Bombay-born Pandya said. PERSONALITY Sociology Professor Is Also A Tough Union Leader One of the union leaders in the battle over contracts for the California State University faculty that has been going on for over 18 months, G Nanjundappa says, 'we are about to sign a contract finally.' DRAMA East Is East Opens To Raves In New York While the Daily News called the play 'warm and compassionate,' The New York Times said it was a 'lively production.' Ramana Maharishi Classical music fest South Asian Fest May 29 NEWS Washington Worried About Escalation In Kargil India cannot hope for any high-level pressure on Pakistan from the Clinton administration just yet because of Washington's preoccupation with Kosovo. NEWS Retrial Set In Serial Sex Attack Case George Philips, a 34-year-old handyman, could be deported to India after fulfilling part of his sentence. He is charged in Queens assaults with 13 counts of first degree sexual abuse, four counts of first degree sodomy, two counts of first degree rape and five counts of kidnapping. NEWS Indian Businessman Seeks To Contest NJ Assembly Seat When Republican voters go to the primaries on June 6 in New Jersey's Middlesex county, they will have an opportunity to choose Sylvester Fernandez who could become the first Indian-American to be elected to the state assembly. MOVIES Amritraj's Hollywood Divorce: He Gives Up 2-Year-Old Partnership To Float Company With the establishment of Hyde Park Entertainment, Ashok Amritraj is set to "make films in the major budget league -- in the $ 40 million to $ 90 million range and primarily in partnership with studios," he said. COMMUNITY Building Bridges Across Cultures The Civil Rights Movement changed America. Indian-Americans needs a similar movement today to understand what it means to be part of a much more diverse America, says Anju Bhargava. Ramana Maharishi Classical music fest South Asian Fest May 28 NEWS Fugitive Mother Returns To Reunite With Daughters Federal agents arrested Ellen Dever, Bipin Shah's estranged wife, as she stepped off a plane from Switzerland at the Philadelphia International Airport. NEWS Police Seek Information In Newsstand Owner's Murder Newsstand vendors are a natural prey to robbers because -- like cab drivers -- they keep cash in their shops. More than 60 per cent of newsstand employees are from the Indian subcontinent. MOVIES How Indian-Produced Mainstream Films Fare The reality is that unless the movies do well abroad and have a strong video sale, they could lose money. Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth, for instance, has mostly ended its worldwide run with a decent $ 64 million gross, and the $ 28 million movie is at the break-even stage now. MOVIES For Hanif Kureishi, Love Weighed More Than Ideology 'Islam is a huge and powerful religion, followed by millions, and it is also a big business run by men with enormous amounts of authority,' the novelist says. Ramana Maharishi Classical music fest South Asian Fest May 27 NEWS Love Affair With Cousin Turns Into Murder; Boyfriend Held On a $1 Million Bail Kurt Latchman spent the last weekend hoping that his friends would bail him out of the jail, but on May 25 he was told that the charges of aggravated assault against him were being changed to murder. NEWS Prosecutor Demands Murder Charge In Death of a News Vendor Amritlal Salva, 69, suffered a heart attack in captivity in Fairview, a small New Jersey city. BUSINESS Gangwal, Wolf Decide To Stay Out Of New Incentive Pay Plan The Association of Flight Attendants and other unions objected to the plan under which USAir executives can receive cash payments for as much as five times their base salaries. CONTROVERSY Academic Novel By Real Life Professor Provokes Controversies The professor of Indian studies is a happily married man but he is obsessed by his one carnal failure -- he has never made love to an Indian woman. COMMUNITY Toronto Sikhs Mark Khalsa Celebrations By Raising Money for Children's Hospital While the goal of the community had been to reach $ 100,000 -- several had expressed the wish that they wanted to collect $ 500,000 -- because five is tied to the symbols of Sikhism. BOOKS 52nd edition of Yogananda's book draws new attention to his work Apart from a deluxe edition ($ 39), the book is available in paperback for $ 5.50; audio version read by Oscar-winner Ben (Gandhi) Kingsley have also sold in thousands. Twelve audiocassettes go for $ 48. May 26 NEWS Inter-Religious Group Cleans Up A Vandalized Mosque In Chicago The mosque, renovated at about $ 3.6 million, caters to a significant number of immigrants - reportedly about 10,000 - from the Indian subcontinent living in and around Chicago. ENTERPRISE Gurdaspur to Los Gatos: The $ 250 million story of Jessie Singh It has been quite a change for the immigrant who tried farming in Yuba City, then delivered pizza and worked at a gasoline station - all these jobs at minimum wage for 16 hours a day, while his wife Surinder, 35, worked as an assembler at an electronics company. NEWS Ban on cellular phones irks New York cabbies 'One feels psychologically reassured talking to a fellow Indian who is driving the cab at the same time in another part of the city," says one taxi driver. 'It is not that my friend could anything for me when I am mugged. But the reassurance is important.' COMMUNITY Indian fund powers U of California at Santa Cruz conference on Indian history A year after entrepreneur Narpat Bhandari gave over $ 1 million (with promises of more to come) to the university on his wife Chandra's birthday to endow a chair for Indian studies, the school recently held a major conference on Indian history, tradition and cultures. ENCOUNTER New Japanese toilet prime example of entrepreneurship: Professor Sheth While every speaker at the TIE conference spoke about technology industries, he dwelt on innovative products -- and what they reveal about a potentially multibillion dollar industry in the new millennium. May 25 NEWS Sold-Out TIE Conference Was A Big Hit With 20-Plus Crowd The Entrepreneurship in the Internet Age conference was sold out, with at least 200 out of the 900 attendees, coming from other American states. The conference room looked more like the venue for a college function. NEWS California Teenagers Target Bidis, Get Backing Of Influential Congressman It is very unlikely that Congressman Lloyd Dogrett had ever heard of the word Bidis but in the past few weeks he has been getting acquainted with such brands as Mangalore Ganesh and Kailas bidis. NEWS With His Daughters Back With Him Bipin Shah Is Ready For Big Dreams While his critics continue to blacken his reputation, the millionaire businessman is ready for a number of big business ventures. ENTERPRISE Young Indian American Dreams Up 'Unamerican' Shock Therapy He is a rebel with a cause, an Indian with an Unamerican dream. Srini Kumar's mission is to get people to question the conventional, mainstream ways in society and thus form a force of like-minded people. BOOKS 'It was the worst time of Nehru's life' 'At the very moment when he needed to show political recovery and strength, the State Department would advertise and exploit his weakness,' the former US ambassador recalls in a new book. Archives |
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