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RANA Spring Festival on March 26 Promises to Lift Visitors’ Spirits
LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): Rajasthan Association of North America have invited all Indians residing in the Tri-State area to the Spring Festival Celebrations on Saturday March 26, 2016 at Hotel Hilton, Long Island Huntington, Melville […]
India
Shahnaz Husain graces as Chief Guest NDIM Fest “Manthan 2016”
Shahnaz Husain was invited as Chief Guest at the New Delhi Institute of Management Inter-College Festival, MANTHAN 2016. Held over two days, on 8th March and 9th March, 2016, the festival had a variety of contests, […]
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Cupid’s arrows fly in Edison
Love was in the air when Kelly Wright, Celebrity anchor Fox News America stopped by in Akbar Restaurant as a Guest of Honor on Saturday, February 13 to join in on the Valentine’s Day celebrations […]
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Center for Contemporary Art to host Indian art exhibition and production of Indian folk tales
The Center for Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Indo-American Arts Council will host the 13th annual “Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora.” The exhibition will open on Thursday, March 17 […]
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Indian Americans get set to get their first American Idol in Sonika Vaid as she makes into TOP 10
Feb 24: Indian-American community has pinned all their hopes with Sonika Vaid who might become the first Indian-American to become the American Idol in this final season. Fourteen contestants had remained headed into Thursday night’s […]
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Will Indian-Americans get their first American Idol in Sonika Vaid?
Feb 24: Indian-American community has pinned all their hopes with Sonika Vaid who might become the first Indian-American to become the American Idol this season. This week Vaid sang the Celine Dion classic, “I Surrender” […]
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Indian American Pavithra Nagarajan Nominated as Presidential Scholar of the Arts
MIAMI, FL (February 2016) –The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) recently announced the nominees for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, which is one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students. Indian […]
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RAJASTHAN’S ROMANTIC DESTINATIONS
With palaces that still evoke the grandeur of their regal past, in literally every hamlet, and the Thar desert’s never-ending sand dunes that appear like golden-hued paintings, there’s no shortage of places to visit in Rajasthan […]
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Indian-American Couple Gifts $3.5 Million For Sanskrit Studies at Chicago Varsity
WASHINGTON(TIP): The University of Chicago has established a professorship for the study of Sanskrit with a $3.5 million gift from an Indian-American couple to help it advance the study of the Indian subcontinent. The Anupama […]
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‘Arts 4 Peace Awards 2016’ Announced Amidst Hollywood Attendees
EDISON, NJ (TIP): Arts for Peace Awards Organization launched the Arts 4 Peace Awards 2016 on Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 hosted by the Edison Hotel in Edison, NJ. Arts 4 Peace Awards are the first […]
Asia
Taiwan rock star Freddy Lim running for MP
Taiwan’s voters go to the polls on Saturday to choose a new president and parliament. This year an unusual candidate is running for MP. Freddy Lim is the lead singer of the Taiwanese heavy-metal band […]
Indian Americans
Indian American Foundation Pledges $1 Million for Studio at Indiana University’s Jacobs School
An Indian American foundation, The Georgina Joshi Foundation Inc., has given a $1 million gift to Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for a state-of-the-art audio recording studio. The new facility, to be named the Georgina Joshi […]
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American Pilgrimage making waves in US
NEW YORK (TIP): Released this past fall on Universal Music Classics, American Pilgrimage, an album of Indian melody and jazz improvisation, has ascended to No. 8 on the Indian Jazz Charts on iTunes. The track ‘Kesariya’ has been featured on Spotify’s Jazz Playlist […]
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Manhattan Global Services launched at a festive Holiday Party
NEWYORK (TIP): A festive holiday party in Manhattan was the occasion for the launch of a new business. A well known community leader and a socialite Roger Chugh and Anuraag Verma teamed together to launch […]
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Arts Matter
The power of dance, music, theater, and visual arts can impact our kids tremendously. As a teacher I saw this firsthand in the classroom when I incorporated the arts into my lessons – students beamed and […]
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Ramayana at the Metropolitan Museum attracts full house
NEW YORK (TIP): Every Year during the festive season of Diwali, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC arranges the presentation of Ramayana (Ram-Leela) in its 708 seat state of the art theater as part of […]
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16 hurt as Shooting breaks out at music video filming in New Orleans
A dispute between two groups of people in a New Orleans park Sunday escalated into a shooting that injured at least 16 people, police said late Sunday, November 22. The shooting took place at around […]
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Indo American Celebrates 10 Years of Business Success
RUTHERFORD, NJ (TIP): INDO AMERICAN , one of the largest distributors of Natural Stones in the Tri State celebrated their 10th anniversary at the Renaissance in Rutherford. It was a grand event with a lot […]