A couple of weeks back, a group of Mandir’s Board Trustees filed a lawsuit against other Board Trustees and the Executive Committee. The whole fiasco started when this publication reported a blatant disregard for the Hindu Temple by-laws by the Board in electing the new Executive Committee. After reviewing the published article, some original Board Members led by the Chair, Jagdish Mehta, took corrective action to enforce the adopted by-laws. When a group of Trustees did not get their way, they filed a lawsuit against the three Board Trustees andRead More

Five Indian-American students at the University of Nevada – Reno (UNR) cleared the preliminary hurdles to move to the final round of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.  Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an annual competition sponsored by the UNR Graduate School. 3MT challenges UNR’s doctoral and graduate students to present a compelling story on their dissertation or thesis and its significance in just three minutes to the general members of the public. Earlier this month, 42 graduate students presented their concise summary of their research thesis topic to theRead More