Dr. Mohinder Sambhi, Professor Emeritus at David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, endowed setting up the Centre of India Studies in memory of his wife, Minno, by donating $2 million to John Hopkins University, Washington.

Romesh Ratnesar, who has been the world editor of Time since 2004, is going on book leave and is being succeeded by Aparisim “Bobby” Ghosh, who’s been in the magazine’s Baghdad bureau for four-plus years.

Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik will be creating a replica of the Taj Mahal as part of the Incredible India @ 60, by the ministry of tourism and culture.

The government today deported former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif back to Jeddah, thwarting his bid to end a seven-year exile after spending four tense hours at the Islamabad airport.

New York, The Bollywood Music & amp; Fashion Awards 2007 will be a star studded event of international stature honoring the outstanding achievements of Indian music makers and fashion designers during the prior year.

Dr. Harjinder Khaira
Chicago: Punjab Sports Club Midwest hosted the 5th World Kabaddi Cup tournament at Busse Woods in Elk Grove Village. Chicago .Over 2500 spectators and Kabaddi fans with their families and friends from Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, Seattle & Iowa attended.

Satirist, comedian, actor and director Jaspal Bhatti has now ventured into something new - a film school near here called MAD, short for Media and Digital Arts.

At the Heritage India Festival on Sept. 9, visitors can try on a saree, get a henna tattoo and be a guest at a traditional Indian wedding.

LAHORE: The Punjab Cycling Association (PCA) on Monday named a women’s team that will take part in the National Women’s Cycling Championship

Bathinda,: Having won wide appreciation nationwide, Shah Rukh starrer Chak de India has also managed to reach the D of Punjab Police and score a goal.