May, 2019
Three Indian American Students Named National Merit $2,500 Scholarship Winners
National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced this year’s National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners. This year three Indian American students are named National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners. The winners are… Ananya Sahiba Dewan of North Las Vegas– Probable career field: Medicine. Currently attending Northwest Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas Yatin J. Chandar of Reno – Probable career field: Aerospace Engineering. Currently attending The Davidson Academy, Reno. Nikesh O. Mishra of Reno – Probable career field: Medicine. Currently attending The Davidson Academy, Reno. The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent poolRead More
Saran & Reddy Brothers Win 2019 International Conrad Challenge Competition
Clark High School students, Jaiden Reddy, Deven Reddy, sons of Ravi & Tina Reddy, along with Shivam Saran, Rishi Saran and Tanush Saran, sons of Praveen and Namita Saran won the annual Conrad Challenge, an international competition for high school students with a challenge to come up with a real life solutions to issues impacting the communities worldwide. The competitors have to apply actual science to solve a real life problem. The 2018-2019 Conrad Challenge drew over 450 student teams from around the world. There were 35 finalists. Reddys’ and Sarans’Read More
Indian Food Festival Attracts Diverse Crowd to Downtown Las Vegas
2019 marked the 16thyear of Vaisakhi/Indian Food Festival celebrations organized by the Baba Deep Singh Gurudwara. The event was attended by over seven-thousands Southern Nevadans with higher participation from non-Indians compared to the previous years. The diverse attendance, superb continuous entertainment – bhangra teams from various University of California campuses, scrumptious Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisine along with shopping for Indian outfits and costume jewelry showcase the finest of what Southern Nevada Indian community has to offer. The organizers and the volunteer teams’ dedication & hard work was clearly visibleRead More
Celebrate Rath Yatra Festival at ISKCON Temple
ISKCON Las Vegas invites the community from all faiths to celebrate the 1st anniversary celebrations and Lorg Jagannath Rath Yatra at the ISKCON Temple on Sunday, May 19th at the Desert Bloom Park. The Chariot “Rath” Yatra festival will start from the community park, flowing through the neighborhood streets followed by celebrations at the ISKCON temple. The celebrations at the temple will include food festival with many food stalls selling diverse Indian vegetarian cuisine along with entertaining children activities.
Congresswoman & Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard in Vegas
After a whirlwind visit to Las Vegas in March, Congresswoman and Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard is set for a return trip to Las Vegas to meet with her supporters to promote her message of Peace, Prosperity and Service before self. Congresswoman Gabbard’s March visit was well attended by the local Indian community where she raised close to twenty thousand dollars. Congresswoman Gabbard will be in Vegas on Friday, May 10th and Saturday, May 11th. Everyone is invited. Please RSVP to reserve your spot at the upcoming town hall meetings. AsRead More
Art Manteris Inducted to the Sports Betting Hall of Fame
Art Manteris, husband of Sue Manteris, is inducted into the Sports Betting Hall of Fame at a ceremony in midtown Manhattan, New York. Currently, Art is serving as Vice President, Race and Sports Operations for the Station Casinos. For Art Manteris, the honor could not have come at a more auspicious moment. As the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic decision approaches, approximately 1,500 industry experts convened this week in New Jersey for a conference on the changing landscape of sports betting in the post-PASPA era. After a seriesRead More
Indian American Seniors Housing “Anand Milan” Moving Ahead
In their continuing quest for providing a retirement place “Anand Milan” for aging Indian American community, the two local investors Kanjibhai Patel and Satish Bhatnagar, along with other local and out-of-state investors, are pleased to announce the zoning change and completion of site survey, environmental site assessment, geotechnical exploration and soil study. The final development plans were approved in February, 2019. The project is located at NE corner of Lone Mountain and Simmons Street in North Las Vegas Anand Milan is a gated community for independent seniors (55+) with plansRead More
Upset Hindus urge Amazon to apologize & withdraw Lord Shiva Toilet Cover set
Upset Hindus are urging world’s largest online retailer Amazon.com for the immediate withdrawal of toilet cover set carrying the image of Hindu deity Lord Shiva; calling it highly inappropriate. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement, said that Lord Shiva was highly revered in Hinduism and was meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to adorn a toilet cover or put your feet on. Inappropriate usage of Hindu deities or symbols or concepts for commercial or other agenda was not okay as it hurt the faithful.Read More
NPRI offers Prof. R.S. Nigam College Scholarship Opportunity – Deadline to Apply May 15th, 2019
Earn a $3,000 ‘Freedom Scholarship‘ The Nevada Policy Research Institute is once again offering a $3,000 Professor R.S. Nigam & NPRI Freedom Scholarship to a graduating Clark County high school student who demonstrates a passion for economic liberty and individual freedom. The scholarship is open to all graduating high school students in Clark County — whether they attend a public, private, online or home school — who plan to attend college in the fall of 2019. To apply for the scholarship, students are asked to write a two-page essay on the following topic:Read More
Guru Nanak Gurudwara Attracts Diverse Community to Celebrate Vaisakhi
Guru Nanak Gurudwara celebrated Vaisakhi Family event on Saturday April 28th. The free family event attracted over 400 attendees to celebrate annual Vaisakhi Mela on the grounds of Guru Nanak Gurudwara. The annual celebrations and continuing the tradition of Vaisakhi festivities offered a glimpse of growing, entrepreneurial, successful, and philanthropic Sikh community of Las Vegas. The local Indian restaurants and volunteers donated homemade snacks, elaborate luncheon, Indian sweets and drinks. The eclectic array of snacks included freshly prepared samosas, pakoras, chholey bhaturey, dahi vada, makki ki roti and saag, golRead More