WASHINGTON (TIP): Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old Indian American seventh-grade student from Florida, has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after he spelt 29 words correctly in the tiebreaker, maintaining the dominance of the children from the small ethnic community in the prestigious competition. His championship word was “abseil”, which is defined as “descent in mountaineering by means of a rope looped over a projection above.”
BOSTON (TIP): An Indian-origin associate professor at the Wellesley Business School, Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit alleging that she was subjected to racial and gender discrimination, according to a media report. Lakshmi Balachandra, associate professor […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Nina Kapur, a 26-year-old Indian origin reporter in New York, died after she fell from a moped that had been rented from Revel, a popular moped sharing service. The accident, which a […]
NEW YORK(TIP): Indian American teenager Dhruv Gaur has won the $100,000 Jeopardy college quiz championship. The first-year student at Ivy League Brown University emerged the champion on April 20thin the two-day final round of the college […]
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