Indian-origin doctor couple donates $500K to US medical school: “To give back in a small way is extremely rewarding”

Dr Rakesh Gupta and Dr Vinita Gupta made a generous donation to the medical school of Methodist University, North Carolina. Dr Rakesh Gupra and Dr Vinita Gupta, an Indian-origin doctor couple and philanthropists, donated $500,000 to the Methodist University Cape Fear Valley Health School of Medicine. The university said that $100,000 out of the entire…

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‘He was like a brother’: Mayor remembers Indian-origin man killed by son in bone-chilling triple murder in Texas

19-year-old Gaurav Chopra kills father, mother, grandmother in a shooting rage in Texas. An Indian-origin businessman, Sweeta Ram, was killed along with his wife and his wife’s mother in an unexplained shooting rage by their 19-year-old son, Gaurav Chopra, in Alton, Texas. As Gaurav faces justice, the community in Alton and Palmview is grieving over…

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Indian-origin mathematician gifts summer fellowship to alma mater Caltech honoring parents: ‘We’ll figure it out. Jump!’

Sukhada Fadnavis with her parents and then Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau at graduation in 2007. Sukhada Fadnavis, an Indian-origin mathematician, has decided to start a fellowship at her alma mater Caltech (California Institute of Technology), in the name of her parents — Shubhangi and Sharad Fadnavis Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship will support undergraduate…

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Indian-origin man caught stealing $41,550 worth of designer clothes from Florida shop, was released on bail after confessing

22-year-old Dhir Patel was caught stealing designer clothes from a high-end Miami store over months. Dhir Patel, a 22-year-old man, was caught stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer clothes in a calculated manner from a Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, Florida. He did not flee after stealing the clothes but came back again…

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Indian man from Norway asks Indians to ‘go drive in snow for milk first’ before complaining about country: ‘I want it now and I’ll have it now’

An NRI’s joy after getting mangoes and other essentials in 9 minutes in his apartment in India triggered a major debate. A social media user started a major debate after he praised the quick e-commerce of India and said no one developed country has this luxury of ‘want it and will have it now’ that…

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White House clears final reg: flexibility for international students in terms of stay and studies likely to be curbed

To begin with, this means that international students and other visa holders covered by the new policy will have to seek periodical visa extensions and undergo biometrics The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has cleared a ‘final’ regulation sent to it earlier by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This regulation will replace the…

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