UNLV Senior Keanni Certeza is this year’s recipient of the Satish Bhatnagar Award and an Outstanding Graduating Senior from UNLV’s acclaimed Department of Dance, College of Fine Arts.   Most recently, Certeza choreographed a performance under the Department of Dance’s Spring Forward concert by the graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students.  As per the Department of Dance narrative, Keanni Certeza was introduced to dance at the local KO Knudson Middle School for the Arts and continued her love of dance at Del Sol Academy.  She is graduating in May 2023 with herRead More

Las Vegan Shiva Gummi allegedly stabbed his Physician wife, Gwendoline Amsrala, to death. Dr. Amsrala, a UNLV’s School of Medicine graduate, recently started her medical residency. As per the press release by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, LVMPD Dispatch received a report of a suicidal male. During the course of the investigation, LVMPD Homicide detectives identified 33-yearold Shiva Gummi as the suspect in this case. Detectives learned that Gummi stabbed his wife, Gwen Amsrala, and then himself before calling the police. Gummi was arrested and booked in absentia intoRead More

A multi-agency operation targeting online child sex predators led to 15 arrests on April 6-7, 2023. The two-day Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) joint operation included detectives and agents from the ICAC Task Force and FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force, to include the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Henderson Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, US Air Force Office of Special Investigation, Nevada Attorney General and the North Las Vegas Police Department participated in organizing and conducting the operation out of North Las Vegas. Undercover agents posedRead More

Finally, after ten days of political posturing, the curtain fell today. Donald J. Trump, the former President of the United States (45th), has been indicted by a Manhattan County Grand Jury (New York). In the US legal system, a District Attorney of a state can go after a citizen on his/her own accord, provided a Grand Jury votes in his/her favor.  Alvin Bragg is the first Black or Afro-American to be elected as the District Attorney (November, 2021). George Soros, a 92-year old New York City billionaire, donated one millionRead More

In a quest to provide education in thousands of underserved villages across India, EKAL has come a long way to set up schools in Indian villages and has educated millions of poverty-stricken children. With chapters across the United States, EKAL national has raised millions of dollars to fund education across rural India.  EKAL Las Vegas chapter, under the unassuming leadership of Ms. Girija Vijay, is no different. The annual sold-out fundraiser on Friday, April 7th, was a great success, with the largest crowd in attendance. As guests entered the libraryRead More

A few weeks ago, Dr. Zohaib Ahmad who teaches Jainism at Islamia University in Bahawalpur in Pakistan invited me to meet and teach his class of 22 students.  As is the custom, I said Jai Jinendra (a Jain Salutation) and then Salaam Aaikum (a Muslim salutation) to all. After the class, I spent quite a bit of my own personal time to understand and reflect on this beautiful Muslim salutation and in doing so, many questions and thoughts popped up in my mind. These are: What is the literal meaning ofRead More