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EdX, a nonprofit online learning initiative composed of many of the globe’s leading institutions, announced May 21 it was doubling in size – adding 15 prestigious institutions to a list that already includes the likes of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Anant Agarwal, president of edX, the recent expansion reflects the company’s rapidly growing worldwide body of students. He maintained the nonprofit would continue to transform education by bringing learning to everyone regardless of their location or social status. |
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 The Harvard Business School is scheduled to host a three-day program in India next week in an ongoing effort to cultivate stronger relationships with the country's business environment. The event, Improving Corporate Performance and Profitability — India, is set to take place from May 27 through May 30 in the Indian city of Mumbai — the country's most populous city with over 20 million metropolitan residents. |
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Bharath Heggadahalli won the overall title at the United States Chess Federation's-rated Celestial Minds New England Junior Open Chess Championship at the Hotel Radisson in Nashua, N.H. last month. The tournament, which was organized by the chess organization Celestial Minds, featured over 57 players from all over New England competing for the top title.
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Java Joshi, a Lexington, Mass.-based artist known for her vibrant and colorful paintings, held her third straight successful showing at the Lexington Open Studios on May 3. During the showing, Joshi exhibited her recent collection of paintings based on "Indian Folk Dances" — a collection that was much appreciated by audience members of all different ethnicities.
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|  A Rhode Island fund raiser hosted earlier this month by the local nonprofit organization Friends of Shelter Associates raised over $20,000 for a large-scale sanitation project in western India. According to the event's host, Sunil Bhatia, over $23,000 have been generated thus far for the project, which aims to put 100 toilets throughout the slums of Pune — an impoverished city of over 3 million residents in western India.
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|  Vivek Ranadive — a graduate of both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — secured a groundbreaking deal last week to buy a majority stake in the NBA's Sacramento Kings. The Mumbai-born businessman is the founder and chief executive officer of Tibco Software — a provider of infrastructure software and one widely credited with digitizing Wall Street. |
|  From time immemorial, the Ramayana, an important Indian mythological epic has been adopted as a subject of songs, dances and dramas. In the modern times, a new trend, namely, the use of technology to bring in special effects has begun to play a powerful role in the re-telling of tales. "Sita Haran" (Abduction of Sita), an excerpt of Ramayana, directed by renowned Kathak exponent, Pandit Chitresh Das, staged on May 11 was one such example of a changing trend.
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|  Over 600 people attended the India Association of New Hampshire’s annual Spring Festival, which took place on May 18 at Nashua High School North. The organization's 11th annual event featured roughly 150 performers, with acts ranging from dance numbers to short skits. Performances were typically less than ten minutes in length and carried out by small groups.
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|  A startup aimed at combining gesture-recognition technology with smart devices recently took home the grand prize of $100K during this year's MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Founded by a group of MIT engineers, including three Indian students, 3dim has patented 3-D gesture-recognition technology to be used in popular devices such as smartphones and tablets. The technology, which is similar to what's used in Nintendo Wii and other consoles, would enable users to interact with their devices through thin air — without having to touch a screen. |
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5/22/2013  Indra Nooyi — an Indian-American currently serving as the CEO of PepsiCo —has been named the tenth most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes, which published an article, "Redefining Power: The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" on Wednesday. Born in India, Nooyi graduated with a Bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry and mathematics from Madras Christian College in 1974 before receiving an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976. | 5/22/2013  A 12-year-old Indian American from Massachusetts has been crowned as the overall winner of this year's National Geographic Bee, which took place on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Sathwik Karnik, a student at King Philip Regional Middle School in Norfolk, Mass. — just southwest of Boston — took home the top prize in addition to a $25,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society and an expedition aboard the Linblad ship •National Geographic Endeavor.' | 5/21/2013  FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers, has jumped to No. 541 on Fortune magazine’s list of America’s 1,000 largest companies. The ranking, published in the magazine’s May 20 edition, is based on FM Global’s fiscal year 2012 financial performance and represents a rise of more than 30 spots from the company’s prior year’s rank at No. 572
| 5/20/2013  Deepa Pakianathan of Delphi Ventures has joined the board of directors for Karyopharm Therapeutics amid a second round of funding that raised just under $50 million for Karyopharm — a Mass.-based company that specializes in nuclear transport modulators. The funding — which raised a total of $48.2 million — was led by a private investor with additional investors, including Delphi Ventures. Pakianathan, who joined Delphi back in 2001, is currently the firm's leader of biotechnology investment activities.
| 5/17/2013  A lecturer at Harvard Law School has moved one step closer to joining America's second-highest court following approval last week from a key Senate committee. On May 16, the 18-member body of the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the nomination of Srikanth Srinivasan — an Indian native — to the DC Circuit Court. |
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5/14/2013 If Parsis made doughnuts, they'd taste like Bhakra.
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| 5/9/2013 Weddings have become a huge business in the South Asian community, but sometimes it can hurt a bride and groom's bottom line. Vendors start increasing their prices and their competitors will follow suit because if couples are willing to pay the premium, they will keep their prices high. The Shaadi Bazaar team has some tips for brides to save some major bucks and still look gorgeous on your big day.
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The 5K walk/run was put on
by the Indian Association of Rhode Island (IARI), and took place at Roger
Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, May 4, 2013. All
proceeds will benefit IARI's "Feed the Hungry" initiative.
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| 5/1/2013 In Parsi Cuisine you will find a unique blend of spices that makes the food very appetizing, nutritious and wholesome. Adapting to the local produce available in Boston area, Parsi Cuisine takes on a special flavor of this New England area. Here is my favorite recipe for “Dhansak, Brown Rice and Kachumbar” – a complete meal. Parsi Dhansak uses the proteins in lentils and combines these with vegetables to make a very satisfying comfort food.
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