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HONORS

  • Queen’s New Year honors include 4 South Asian doctors
  • Scientist Dr. Saji Abraham wins NASA Peer Award
  • Dr. Krishnamurthi is NIH unit deputy director
  • ‘For 20 years I have been raising funds and doing charity work’
  • Dr. Aggarwal is Georgetown U’s B-school interim dean
  • Devadhar is 2nd Indian to become Bishop of United Methodist Church
  • Ananda Mitra takes over as director of WFC’s Survey Research Center
  • Harvard student Mirchandani is honored by United Nations
  • Community Service Award for Sakhi for South Asian Women
  • Forbes Global’s inaugural list of India’s 40 wealthiest business people
  • SIA’s 3rd annual Diversity Leadership Award for Merrill Lynch
  • Nirgudkar is ‘30 under 30’ winner
  • 15 films concerning Indian Americans recognized at ‘NRI TV Film Awards’
  • Bhardwaj is ‘India Abroad Person of the Year,’ Gupta gets Special Award
  • Several Indian Americans, including Chhabra, Aravamuthan, Bahl among Marshall scholars
  • 2 Indian Americans among 5 winners in individual category and 1 among 5 teams
  • Patil named director of Texas A&M U.’s Vegetable, Fruit Improvement Center
  • Meghan Pasricha among 6 winners of National Caring Awards 2004
  • Professor Bishnoi recipient of Seed Science Award
  • P. Harikrishna crowned World Junior Chess Champion
  • CPJ honors journalists for bravery in face of harassment
  • Bollywood legends honored and feted at Atlantic City
  • 3 South Asians are among 32 Rhodes Scholars named for 2005
  • Global Indus Awards for 15 of Indian origin among total of 150
  • 16 Asian-American activists among 43 N.Y. winners of Union Square Awards 2004
  • Dr. Malhotra-led team identified 2 genes contributing to schizophrenia
  • Ayyangar, 6, Venkataraman, 11, perform at Sen. Kerry fund-raiser
  • Danseuse Sudha Sekhar gets lifetime achievement award
  • 19 young Indicorps volunteers are felicitated in Gujarat
  • Top 100 companies generated $2.3 billion in revenue
  • Indra Nooyi, Naina Lal Kidwai in WSJ top 50 list
  • Bharti’s Sunil Mittal honored with ‘Entrepreneur Of The Year’ award
  • Air Sahara president Rono Dutta, who was second Indian American to head a U.S. carrier
  • Investiture of Madhur Jaffrey as Commander of British Empire
  • ‘A Million Dreams,’ the annual Children’s Hope (India) Gala
  • 2 Indian-American journalists are SAJA Award co-winners
  • Mittal buys Ohio-based ISG to form steel giant
  • Kanwar Bhutani is president of Tupperware’s U.S. operations
  • Raj Sharma, Private Wealth Adviser and Senior VP at Merrill Lynch
  • CACF award for journalist and author S. Mitra Kalita
  • 31 South Asians are among 1,099 U.S. Fulbright Scholars for 2004-05
  • Green Oscars for 3 Indian films
  • Mira Nair to receive ‘Maverick Award’ at Woodstock Festival
  • Angad Paul’s film ‘EMR’ wins ‘best U.K. Feature’ at Raindance Festival
  • Arya is named president-elect of American Pharmacists Association
  • R. Pawar named to U.N. task force on financial mechanisms
  • IgNobel Award for Prof. Balasubramaniam of Ottawa U.
  • Shahrukh, Anoushka among 5 S. Asians and 1 Afghan in Time list
  • Aung San Suu Kyi tops poll; Manmohan Singh among 20 nominees
  • Hesh Sarmalkar wins ‘Best Actor’ jury award at Rome festival
  • Fauja Singh rewrites world mark at Toronto Marathon
  • ‘Kalpana Chawla Hall’ at Texas U. at Arlington
  • Queens Library to honor Democratic District Leader Sengupta at annual gala
  • Amar Gopal Bose is in Fortune’s famous 5 and Forbes’ 400
  • Desai of Syntel is named richest small business entrepreneur by Fortune
  • Prestigious $500,000 MacArthur fellowship for Vamsi Mootha
  • Shroff among 8 finalists at ESPN’s ‘Dream Job’
  • 3 of South Asian origin among 40 Discovery challenge finalists
  • Tariq is a millionaire at 20
  • Anju Bobby George wins gold in Singapore, Japan
  • 10 South Asian young researchers among MIT’s listing of 100
  • Bhatia, Tirath’s firms among 12 ‘Regional Suppliers of the Year’
  • Shivashankar, Paturi winners in Spelling Bee; Oza, Pillai in Vocabulary
  • Dr. Banik honored with ‘Life Time Achievement Award’
  • Raj Aggarwal presented 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award
  • Kaleem Kawaja receives Humanitarian Award
  • Beheruz Sethna is named treasurer of ARCHE’s board of trustees’ 2004-05
  • Anju wins Khel Ratna, Rathore gets Arjuna Award
  • Heimsath, Shukla, Vakil, Mukhopadhyay among 57 researchers honored
  • NETIP-NY’s 8th annual scholarship dinner
  • Farmingdale State U. honors Dr. Bandyopadhyay
  • Venkatachalam is ‘Outstanding Researcher’
  • Indian Jew elected as first president of synagogue
  • Arun Mohan is on board of top medical foundation
  • Rai is 1st recipient of Cancer Foundation Professorship
  • Chef Pant wins 1st prize in seafood culinary competition
  • NASA’s SGITM Altix 3000 named after ‘Kalpana’
  • Adm. L. Ramdas of India, Ibn Abdur Rehman of Pakistan are Magsaysay Award winners
  • Ash Jain is appointed special assistant in Bureau of Arms Control
  • Sorabjee elected chairman of U.N. Sub-Commission on Human Rights
  • Indian American student among top 10 finalists for the MTV-RNC contest
  • Global Young Leaders Conference: 8 Indian students flew in to attend
  • Indian Muslim Council-USA announces award recipients 2004
  • Rajeev Sharma honored as one of ‘Outstanding 50 Asian-Americans in Business’
  • New York’s ‘Little India’ in Jackson Heights is now ‘Kalpana Chawla Way’
  • Sonia, Tata, Karnik among BusinessWeek’s 25 ‘Stars of Asia’
  • Bhan recognized as ‘Top 5 Under 35’ at ‘Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business’ awards
  • 2004 Burton Award for Legal Excellence for Raj Dave
  • Vivek Viswanathan wins USIP’s first national peace essay contest
  • Nasim Ali, recipient of AAHC’s 2004 Business Achievement Award
  • Billy Singh in 2004 annual Million Dollar Round table
  • American Muslims prefer Kerry, says study by CAIR
  • Gowda elected to N.Y.'s education council from Staten Island
  • ‘I think politicians within each district should be making education a priority’
  • State Department’s Singh among ‘2004 Service to America Medal’ finalists
  • Kal Penn Is Among People’s ‘50 Hottest Bachelors’
  • ‘Green Oscars’ for pioneering projects from subcontinent
  • ‘Achievement Medal’ for Marine who speaks six languages
  • Prith Banerjee to be dean of engineering college at Illinois varsity
  • Akshay Buddiga is second in Scripps National Spelling Bee
  • Chellu Chetty is among 9 honored with 2003 President’s Science Award
  • 6 of S. Asian origin among 20 Presidential Early Career Awardees
  • Pooja Mehta, Omar Joseph recipients of SABA Foundation fellowship
  • Kalidas Shetty of Mass. University named Jefferson Fellow
  • Desai, Melookaran on President’s Advisory Commission on Asians and Pacific Islanders
  • Jai Singh, CNET News.com editor, wins National Magazine Award
  • 4 Indian Americans among 135 invested with honor at colorful ceremony
  • Dr. Navin Mehta to be honored by Asian American Federation of New York
  • 7 S. Asians honored at ‘South Asian Heritage’ celebration
  • Ali named to board of trustees of Hispanic Foundation in NJ
  • Dr. Manzoor Abidi is named president of Medical Society of NJ


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