Month: April 2021

Community leader Jitendra Diganvker is running for Maine Township highway commissioner to be a voice for taxpayers.

Dr Suresh Reddy, immediate past president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin or AAPI, is running for a trustee seat in Oak Brook, a city located 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop.

Nimish Jani is running for Trustee of Schaumburg Township, while Syed Hussaini is a candidate for Trustee for Hanover Park township. Smitesh Shah is running for Clerk for Maine township.

Said to be a direct impact of Vice President Kamala Harris, the five-women candidates running for elections are Vasavi Chakka for Naperville City Council, Mehgana Bansal for Wheatland Township Trustee and Shweta Bair Aurora 10th Ward Alderman. Supna Jain and Saba Haider are running for District 204 School Board.

Twenty hours a day for seven months went into painting ‘The  Journey of Humanity’, the largest painting on canvas and the second most expensive by a living artist.

Sacha Jafri, the British artist with Indian origins…

Haryana-born Rahul Kumar made history last month when he was elected as a city parliament member in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

According to Indoeuropean.eu a website for Indians in the European Union, this is the first time an Indian-origin candidate has won a city parliamentary election in Germany

Rang Meet, in association with The Telegraph, was organised by the Calcutta chapter of the International Dynamic Entrepreneurs Alliance (IDEA).

John C. Martin, who died on Tuesday, was first big donor for liver hospital.

Former Gilead Sciences boss John C. Martin, who passed away on Tuesday, had a $8 million connection with Calcutta, where his money helped set up a liver hospital that caters to underprivileged people.

He had donated $3 million to set up the Indian Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences at Sonarpur, on the southern fringes of the city. 

He had also pledged another $5 million to build a research centre at the institute. 

Abhijit Chowdhury, the secretary of Liver Foundation, which has built the Sonarpur hospital where people are treated at a subsidised rate, narrated to Metro on Wednesday how Martin had helped them build the facility.

“John C. Martin was the first big donor for the project. It was after his donation that other donors came forward to help the $5 million project,” said Chowdhury, also the head of the Institute of Liver Diseases at SSKM Hospital. 

Kolkata

Veteran actor Shashikala Om Prakash Saigal died on Sunday. She was 88. More popularly known by her first name, Shashikala has famously appeared as various supporting characters in over 100 films including Bimla, Sujata, Aarti, Anupama, Waqt, Gumrah and Khubsoorat, among many others.

Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Nepal Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Basant Kumar Nembang jointly dedicated the roads to the people of the Himalayan nation.

The roadways were built under the ‘Government of India funding and Government of Nepal implementation’ modality, according to an official statement.

Lieutenant General Manjinder Singh laid a wreath at the Command War Memorial and paid homage to the soldiers who had laid down their lives in the line of duty under the Western Command.

The arch, the most difficult part of the Rs 1,400-crore bridge over Chenab, is a major leap towards the completion of the 111-km long-winding stretch from Katra to Banihal. It will symbolise the Kashmir rail link, to be ready for at least a century.

Sita Vasuniya (25) was an unknown tribal woman in the quiet town of Mandu, 35 km from Dhar. But her anonymity ended when her photograph, draped in a beige and golden Maheshwari silk sari which she had hand-printed in bright hues of red and black, got picked up by Vogue Italia’s digital edition on March 29.