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Gurudwara Food Give Away Drive Attracts Thousands
Las Vegas Sikh Community is pleased to announce a successful vegetarian lunch give away to help the community during the current pandemic situation. Over 450 cars drove through the parking lot of Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh on Saturday, May 9th followed by over 200 cars at the Gurudwara Guru Nanak on Thursday, May 14th. Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh volunteers handed over 1300 lunch boxes consisting of freshly prepared vegetarian food. The lunch box included a samosa, rice pulao, garbanzo curry, and matar paneer, along with a gallon of bottled water, and couple ofRead More
Food Drive by Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh
Please join Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh for a food donation drive on Saturday, May 23rd, 2020. Please donate cans and non-perishable vegetarian food items for the Three Square food bank. Under the current challenging circumstance due to the COVID-19, the devotees of Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh are trying to end hunger in the Las Vegas valley. This goes with the principles of Sikhism in sharing and caring for those who need assistance. The food drop off program is collecting non-perishable vegetarian boxed items like all kinds of pasta, cereal, cannedRead More
Jaiden Reddy Earned Perfect ACT Score
Jaiden Reddy, son of Drs. Tina and Ravi Reddy and a Junior at Ed W. Clark High School earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36 with a perfect 36 on each section. Fewer than half of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2019, only 4,879 out of nearly 1.8 million students who took the ACT earned a top composite score of 36. The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading, and science, each scored onRead More
Ruptured Routines: Social Distancing and Kids with Autism
Indian-American UNLV School of Medicine Physician, Dr. Rooman Ahad offers tips and resources for parents of children with ASD. Many parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carefully craft their child’s schedule to smooth out transitions and give them plenty of physical activity so they can thrive in school. But the limited social interactions and upended schedules that are defining COVID-19 quarantines have disrupted those strategies, according to Dr. Rooman Ahad, a pediatric neurologist at the UNLV School of Medicine. “Parents of autistic children are generally prepared. They come with the right snacks;Read More
Four Indian-American High School Students Named National Merit Scholarship Winners
National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced this year’s National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners. This year four Indian-American students are named National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners. This award is supported by National Merit Scholarship Corporation’s own funds. The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees werechosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding Finalists in the 2020 National MeritScholarship Program. The winners are… Ritvik Janamsetty. Probable career field: Computer Science. Currently Attending Coral Academy of Science in Henderson. Eshaan J. Vakil. Probable career field: International Relations. Graduating from Ed W. Clark High School in LasRead More
Community MeetUp Hiking Group
MeetUp hiking group is seeking members of the Indian community to enjoy hiking in and around Las Vegas valley. This group is for people of Indian (India) background to meet in Vegas. Membership is free. The idea behind creating this group is to get to meet some like-minded people in the area while enjoying the outdoors. Depending on the interest we receive, we could do hiking (Calico basin, Red rock, Lone Mountain, Mt Charleston, Zion, etc ). For further information and to join the group, please visit https://www.meetup.com/Las-Vegas-Expat-Indian-Meetup-Group/
CREATIVITY IN A HAVAN – Guest Author Satish Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
Havan/Homa/Yajana is an iconic activity in the Hindu religion. It continues to be a part of Buddhism and Jainism, the major offshoots or reformations of Hinduism, but it is not a part of the 500-year old Sikhism. Havan is not at all fire worshipping, though fire is the central piece in the entire ceremony. Fire is the ultimate purifier of the environment as well as what is burnt in it! The cremation of the dead amongst the Hindus is a corollary of this philosophy of life. The incantation of specificRead More
Coronavirus in the Global Village – Guest Author Sulekh Jain, Ph.D.
During the last 200 years, due to the advances in technology, travel, the internet, and instant communication, the world had already become flat and truly a Global village. In a Global village people, care and share with each other and live happily. The recent Coronavirus has brought us even closer. The Covid-19 Pandemic does not see race, religion, color, caste, creed, language, or geographical border before striking and everyone is affected equally. It spares no one. It is a great equalizer amongst rich and poor, weak or mighty, and ordinary orRead More
Food & Mask Distribution Drive by Las Vegas Sikh Community
Las Vegas Sikh Community in conjunction with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is pleased to announce the distribution of much-needed face masks and freshly prepared vegetarian food for the community members. During the current economic and health challenges, the local Indian restaurants are donating food for the cause. The food and face-masks distribution will take place on May 9th, 2020 at 12 noon at the Baba Deep Singh Gurudwara, 6341 W. Lone Mountain Road, and on May 14th, 2020 at 12 noon at the Guru Nanak Gurudwara, 4487 E.Read More
Indian American Physicians from UNLV School of Medicine at the Forefront of COVID-19 Pandemic
In the continuing menace of COVID-19, the Indian-American Physicians – Dr. Kush Modi, Dr. Aditi Singh, Dr. Buddha Dawn, Dr. Amaan Shafi, Dr. Pallavi Satuluri and Dr. Ketan Patel, from the UNLV School of Medicine are vigorously providing medical care to the Las Vegas community. Dr. Kush Modi…Well before the COVID-19 outbreak, Dr. Kush Modi was taking care of critically ill patients with a variety of lung diseases in the University Medical Center (UMC) intensive care units. His experience as a resident in internal medicine, coupled with a long-standing wonder at theRead More