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.”
VANCOUVER (TIP): In an apparent hate crime, a 21-year-old Sikh student from India was attacked in Canada‘s British Columbia province by a group of unidentified men who ripped off his turban and dragged him across […]
WASHINGTON, D.C (TIP): Dr Kamal D Verma, an acclaimed scholar of South Asian literature, died of natural causes this week here in the American capital. He would have turned 92 in April. Professor Verma taught […]
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