May, 2022
Mother’s Day Celebrations
After an initial successful organizational meeting led by Ms. Daulat and Chatterjee, the Indian Women’s Association of Las Vegas invites all the mothers to come together to celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 15th, 2022 at Mariposa Cocina & Cocktails. Although Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 8th, the group decided to postpone the celebrations by bringing all the women together on May 15th as most of the mothers will be celebrating the day with their families and near & dear ones on actual Mother’s Day.
Four Indian-American Students Named National Merit $2500 Scholarship Winners
National Merit Scholarship Corporation is pleased to announce four local Indian-American students as the winner of a $2500 scholarship. The four Indian-American students, Sohini Mandal, Sanjay Soni, Mathew J. Stephen, and Meghana S. Sunkara, were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding Finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program. Sohini Mandal is graduating from the Green Valley High School, Henderson. Mandal is planning to pursue a degree in Chemistry. Sanjay Soni of West Career and Technical Academy is planning to go for a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. Mathew J. Stephen is graduatingRead More
Radha Govinda Temple (ISKCON) 4th Anniversary Celebrations
Devotees of the Las Vegas ISKCON’S Radha Govinda Temple invite the community to join them in 4th anniversary celebration along with Narasimha Chaturdash on the temple grounds on Saturday, May 14th beginning at 5 P.M. The celebrations are FREE and open to all members of the community irrespective of religion, national origin, lifestyle orientation or language barriers.
Indian-American Senior Citizens Meeting
After a successful first post pandemic organizational meeting of the community’s growing population of senior citizens, conveyor Ashok Goyal invites all the seniors for a pot luck luncheon meeting on Saturday at 12 pm, May 14that the United Way meeting room at 5830 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. As per Goyal, the attendees will have an opportunity to meet the fellow Indian-Americans, mostly retirees, for conversations, homemade pot-luck luncheon, and card games. There is no cost to attend the meeting. The meeting agenda also includes future events and planning forRead More
Smoke 4 U Sued by Former Employees For Labor Wage Violations
Indian-American owned Smoke 4 U with multiple locations is being sued under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the Nevada Federal Court by two of the former employees. Two of the former Smoke 4 U employees, P. Sandhu and T. Singh are accusing B. Sidhu dba Smoke 4 U for the non-payment of minimum wage, overtime and break periods in violation of the FLSA. Sandhu was hired by Smoke 4 U in September 2019 as a Store Manager for Smoke 4 U, while Singh was hired in May 2020 forRead More
Meet, Greet and Reception for Indian-American Reuben D’Silva, Candidate for Nevada State Assembly District 28
South Asian community is invited to a Reception to support Indian-American Reuben D’Silva, candidate for the Nevada State Assembly District 28. FREE Event. Mumbai-born Reuben D’Silva, an ardent Democrat known in the Democratic circle for his political activism is running for an open seat from Assembly District 28. D’Silva is a long-time community educator, leader, and organizer who is well versed with the issues impacting the local community. He is also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who received the Purple Heart in the Iraq War. 5,335 total views
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Is Nuclear War A Reality Now? – Guest Author Nirmalya Chatterjee
The last time nuclear weapons were used for war purposes was towards the end of the second world war in August of 1945 when the United States dropped nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Many more sophisticated and long range nuclear weapons have been developed and tested by several nations throughout the seventy five plus years since then. Yet, the general belief has been that use of such destructive weapons in a conflict is a very remote possibility simply because such weapons will cause ‘mutual annihilations’ of theRead More
Obituary – Amar Pai, 45
Amar Pai, son of a long-time Las Vegas resident, Punda and Padmini Pai, died suddenly at home in San Francisco. Born on Nov. 29, 1976, in Garden City, Kansas, Amar moved with his family to Las Vegas in 1987. A brilliant engineer, Amar was remarkable in the breadth of his interests. A voracious and eclectic reader, a creative writer with a distinctive voice, a climber and walker, a sidewalk artist, and a music aficionado, Amar embraced with open arms everything life has to offer. He lived in the moment andRead More
G Singh Pleads Guilty to Malicious Destruction of Property
G. Singh plead guilty to attempted malicious destruction of property. As per the guilty plea agreement, the State will not oppose the probation and will not oppose dismissal of charges in another case after rendition of a sentence in District Court. Singh will make restitution in all cases including monetary compensation to the victim. All remaining counts in the original criminal complaint which were bound over to the District Court shall be dismissed when Singh is adjudged guilty and sentenced. In the original complaint Singh was charged with three counts – burglary ofRead More
DARWINIAN THEORY & FIXED POINTS OF MANKIND – Satish Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
Nature being cyclic, its different phenomena have different periods. And, so are the different germination times of seeds – both in their physical as well as in metaphysical forms. I was 17-year old when I first read an essay on the Darwinian Theory of Evolution (1859) in a textbook, titled as, Ideas that moved the World. This being a part of an English course (comprehensive kind) in my college years (1955-59) in Bathinda, the professor’s explanation did not touch on biology and the labs involved. For years, we, friends, used toRead More