Indian-origin awarded with UK’s top honour in Mathematics February 08, 2017 06:29
An Indian-origin has been elected ‘Fellows of the of Mathematics and its Applications in the United Kingdom on January 26th. The honour recognizes outstanding contribution to the advancement of mathematics. Bishnujee Singh is the CEO of Cayley Aerospace Inc, he is also a chartered mathematician of the same institute and also the first ever aeronautical engineer to be conferred as a chartered scientist with the United Kingdom’s Science Council. He was also awarded EUR ING Award from FEANI Brussels in 2011, Bishnujee became the first ever engineer from India to receive this award. NRI and team creates Guinness world record AMandeep
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Indian-origin pleaded guilty to money laundering February 03, 2017 04:25
An Indian-origin businessman in the United States was sentenced up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $500,000 after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money for a marijuana dealer. 39 years old Krishen Sauble Iyer is the owner of the insurance company “Health Shield”, knew the dealer identified only as SV, a marijuana trafficker when he decided to work with him, US Attorney Phillip A Talbert said. According to the court documents, they both made a deal that SV would transfer the drug proceeds to his insurance company, and those funds would then be paid back to SV to make the drug proceeds appear to be legitimate salary payments. Talbert was quoted as saying by the Fresno Bee that Iyer issued two Form 1099s to SV, which claimed that the business paid him $111,952 in 2013 and $164,000 in 2014. This deal gave the illusion of legitimate salary payments, for which Iyer received commission for transferring the money Krishen Sauble Iyer is scheduled to be sentenced on April 24 this year, in which he can face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $500,000. Indian National Charged with smuggling drugs into US AMandeep
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Indian national charged with smuggling drugs into US February 02, 2017 05:05
An Indian national, who was extradited to the United States from Kenya, has been charged for his participation in a major narcotics importation scheme from suppliers in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said Vijaygiri Anandgiri Goswami 55-year-old along with Baktash Akasha 40-year-old, Ibrahim Akasha 28-year-old and a Pakistani citizen Gulam Hussein 61-year-old, were charged for their participation in a narcotics importation conspiracy and were brought to the United States from Kenya. Following a request from the United States they four were charged with four counts of conspiring to import drugs and methamphetamine into the US. Each count carries a minimum prison sentence for 10 year and a maximum sentence of life in prison. They four were arrested in Mombasa, Kenya on 2014 November. They were charged in a superseding indictment with narcotics importation offenses based on their delivery of 99kg of heroin and two kilograms of methamphetamine in Kenya, which they intended would be imported into the US. Bharara said the four ran a drug trafficking organization in Kenya with their global ambitions to distribute tons of narcotics - heroin and methamphetamine - around the globe, including to the United States. From March 2014 through the date of their arrested, it is conspired that the four men have imported a large quantities of drugs into the United States. Baktash Akasha is the leader of an organized crime in Kenya, which responsible for the production and distribution of large quantities of drugs within Kenya and throughout the African continent. It is alleged that Goswami managed the whole drug business of Akasha along with the production and distribution of methamphetamine and the procurement and distribution of heroin. Hussein was a long-time associate of Goswami, who headed a transportation network that distributes massive quantities of drugs throughout the Middle East and Africa, and also has acknowledged the responsibility for transporting tons of kilograms of drugs by sea. For several months the defendants supplied multi-kilograms of drugs to individuals they thought were the representatives of a South American drug-trafficking organization, but in fact they were working confidentially under the supervision of the Drug enforcement Administration. They negotiated on behalf of the Akasha Organization and agreed to procure and distribute hundreds of kilos of drugs from their suppliers in Afghanistan and Pakistan and also to produce and distribute hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine, which they thought would be imported into the United States Indian-origin woman humiliated at Frankfurt AMandeep
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Indian-origin woman 6th victim to die in Australia car rampage February 01, 2017 12:38
An Indian-origin woman in Australia has become the 6th victim of an intentional Australia road rampage. Bhavita Patel a 33 year old died in hospital on Monday night (Jan 30) after she was critically injured in an accident on a busy street in Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city. Bhavita Patel worked as a director at a global accounting firm in Melbourne. Media reports said doctors tried to save Patel, but as her condition did not improve, she lay unresponsive in hospital. Patel was walking to her office, when she was hit by a car, which rammed into several people on the Bourke Street, killing 5 people, including 2 children on the spot and injuring 31 others. Graham Ashton, chief commissioner of Victoria confirmed that vehicle driver was on a bail and had a drug related history, he intentionally plowed into pedestrians. Patel’s brother said that he and his parents were left broken, but they appreciate the love receiving from people. Patel attended the Australian National University in Canberra and worked as an accountant and adviser for the federal government before she moved to Melbourne to work with Deloitte. Deloitte Australia chief executive Cindy Hook paid his tributes to Patel as an "outstanding" member of the company's national advisory teams Hook said that they were deeply saddened by the passing of our colleague, Bhavita Patel. The police said, nine patients still remain in hospital and one is still in critical condition. 26 years old Dimitrious Gargasoulas the accused driver was charged with five counts of murder. Gargasoulas is being remanded in custody and ordered to face court via video link in August. Indian-origin Kal Penn raised funds after mocked on Social media AMandeep
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Indian-origin and Kristen Stewart creates new AI system January 27, 2017 06:54
An Indian origin has authored a new ‘Artificial Intelligence’ system, with a co-author none other than Hollywood actress Kristen Stewart, who is known for her roles in ‘Twilight’. The new AI system can make movie shots just look alike as if they were painted. Bhautik Joshi an Indian origin engineer has completed his studies from New South Wales and currently is working as a research engineer in Adobe “San Franciso Bay Area”. The process relies on machine learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence. It gives a look of an impressionistic painting to certain shots in the film short, which uses allusive images to follow a man through his day. The technique is being described as a neural style transfer, which differs from filters of Snapchat and Instagram. Bhautik Joshi said that current filters work with the information in the image and on Instagram filters is just a color lookup. To create effects, Snapchat and Instagram uses filters that are based on rules created by humans "If you come across this condition, do that to the image." The Snapchat’s software is designed to recognize eyes in a photo, so if a person wants to make an eye look like a cartoon character’s, it cannot do that. In contrast, style transfer, in this context, works by taking an image and breaking it down into blocks to identify its components and then comparing it to a reference image. If a person wants to make an image look as if it were painted in the style of Van Gogh's "Starry Night", the AI software would look for these corresponding features in the image that you want to alter, using a technique based on so-called neural networks. Joshi also said that sometimes, the results cannot be predictable, because unlike with the Snapchat filters, the computer is learning as it goes through the images. More than Two Million galaxies in Universe AMandeep
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NRI Arrested on Dowry Charge January 24, 2017 05:56
According to Banjara hill police NRI fitness trainer was arrested on 23 January (Monday) for harassing his wife for dowry and cheating his in-laws for Rs 1.5 crore. P Preadeep Reddy 35 years old is an Australia-based fitness trainer, who operated F45 fitness center on Road No. 92 in Jubilee Hills Hyderabad. Pradeep married to Divya Ligamaneni in the year 2008 and they have a 5 year old daughter. According to the complaint reports, it is alleged that Pradeep that taken Rs 1.5 crore from Divya and her parents a couple of years ago to launch F45 fitness center and had duped them, it was also alleged that Pradeep had taken by demanding Rs 10 lakh as cash and 30 tola gold as dowry. The complaint also alleged that Pradeep physically and mentally kept torturing Divya and also maintained affairs with other women. The Banjara Hill police registered a case under sections 420, 406, 506 of the IPC and sections 3 and 4 of the DP Act. “Pradeep was arrested on Monday and was taken to judicial custody,” Inspector K Srinivas said. Indian teacher found guilty in teacher employment scheme AMandeep
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Indian Teacher Found Guilty In Teacher Employement Scheme January 23, 2017 11:43
According to the federal officials an Indian teacher was found guilty of a scheme to defraud his fellow Indian teachers by using an employment scheme. Eastern Texas Federal Prosecutor Richard L. Durbin announced on 20th January (Friday) that George Mariadas Kurusu appeared before Federal Magistrate Judge David B. Fannin and admitted that he was guilty to foreign labor contract, fraud, tampering with a witness or victim and making false statements on visa applications. According to the prosecutors, Kurusu admitted that from the year 2012 December to 2016 May, he had defrauded several teachers out of $50,000 for a visa package to get jobs and H-1B visas in Texas. Several schools across the United States hire teachers from other countries for the subjects in which there are no enough qualified American teachers and bring them on H-1B visas which are meant for the professionals. Kurusu was on an H1-B visa and was teaching classes at Fort Stockton Independent School District in Texas. According to statements released by the prosecutor’s office, Kurusu had set up a company named ‘Samaritan Educational Services’ and then he advertised jobs in Fort Stockton Independent School District in local newspapers of Hyderabad. When people started applying for jobs, he made it appear as if they had to apply for the jobs via him. Kurusu charged a huge amount of fees and gave the people an impression that they were paying for the paper works. Then Kurusu used personal information of those people to create a buffer so that all communications to and from the Fort Stockton Independent School visa application process went through him. When the teachers arrived in the United States, Kurusu sets them with bank accounts which electronically transfer funds provisions that sent him 15 percent of their salary to the account of SES claiming it was for the consolation and for what he claimed ensuring that they had their jobs and visa. When investigations started to begin, Kurusu warned his victims if they cooperated with officials then they would lose their jobs. Indian origin convicted for harassing US officials AMandeep
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Indian origin Entrepreneur May Lead FDA January 19, 2017 07:08
Balaji S Srinivasan an Indian origin American, who is a successful Silicon Valley based entrepreneur and CEO of a bitcoin startup. Srinivasan is being considered for Donald Trump administration’s pick to lead the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) after he met Donald Trump. Srinivasan met Donald Trump at the Trump towers in New York on the 12th of January, but no official announcement has been made yet. Sean Spicer, who is the incoming White House Press Secretary has confirmed that Srinivasan is being considered for the position of head FDA. FDA is the important federal agency for drug and pharma industry. Spicer also said that Jim O’Neil, who is the managing director of Mithril Capital Management is also being considered for the position in the FDA. Balaji Srinivasan is currently serving as the CEO and co-founder of 21.Co and is also a partner in the Andreessen Horowitz. Srinivasan had also won the FDA approval as a genomics entrepreneurial. According to Srinivasan’s Linkedin profile “ He is broadly interested in new technology, which a particular focus on ‘real world’ application’s digital bits interface with physical atoms and substantive problems, such as quantified self (healthcare), MOOCs/edtech (education), Bitcoin (finance), drones, and 3D printing." Srinivasan has also served as a lecturer in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science at the Stanford University. Srinivasan described himself as a computer scientist, investor, entrepreneur and academic on his website. He was the CTO and Co-founder of Counsyl, which is a genomics startup that began in a Stanford dorm room, which now tests 4 % of all American births. Srinivasan stepped back from an executive role in November 2012 after working for ten years in genomics and five years at Counsyl to work on other areas of technology. According to the media reports Srinivasan is closely associated with Peter Thiel, who is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and co-founder of Paypal. AMandeep
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Five Year Sikh not allowed in to School for Wearing Turban January 18, 2017 05:34
A 5 year old Sikh boy was denied from school enrollment in Australia for wearing a turban, as it does not align with school’s uniform policy. Sagardeep Singh Arora father of the child has quoted by saying to a local news that “It was disappointing that his son was forced to abandon his religious practices ad identity to access to an education in Melbourne’s Melton Christian College. Arora had lodged a claim with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. Arora also said that he believes in having a common school uniform is very important in promoting the identity of the school and integration. But the students must be allowed to wear their significant religious faith symbols and articles of faith. It is immoral for a school which do not allow its students to practice their beliefs. Arora said that they are in talks with different organizations like schools, police and army, regarding the importance of hair and turban in Sikhism in Australia and other countries. But still the Melbourne’s Melton Christian College has refused to review their uniform policy. It is so disappointing that Sikh community are still struggling with issues like this, even after having a long history of the Sikh community in Australia. "While practicing our religious beliefs, we wish to show an expression of solidarity with the wider Australian community," he added. According to the reports, Melbourne Christian College has provided a written response to the VEOHRC in which the school has refused to include any additional items amid the existing permitted uniform protocol. In the written response College said, that the history of their college represents more than 30 years of inclusive religious tolerance. Children of the school have been in classrooms and grounds together, playing and learning wonderfully oblivious to their religion. They are proud of that heritage of inclusiveness. MCC said that they acknowledge the disappointment which Sagardeep and his family have felt. They respectfully recognize Aurora’s disappointment that the uniform protocol of the school means that non prescribed items are not permitted to be worn in addition to the school uniform. The result is that they have agreed that college uniform will be maintained as it is, without permitting additional items." Sikhism is a small religion, but it is a growing minority in Australia. Sikh community can trace its origin in the nation to the 1830s. At present Australia is home to more than 72,000 Sikhs, and it is expected that in this year’s census the population of Sikh’s is going to increase. In a landmark case in September 2008, a Brisbane private school was forced to back down on a strict uniform policy that would have forced a Sikh boy to cut his hair and remove his turban. AMandeep
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Punjabi NRIs to Visit India to Support AAP election Campaign January 17, 2017 09:47
Around ninety Punjabi people of Indian Origin from Canada are going to fly to Punjab for Aam Admi Party (AAP) campaign, In 16 of the largest constituencies in Punjab for the upcoming assembly elections. They all will be arriving on 19th January. Surinder Mavi a 31 year old from Brampton said that he wants to be the part of a real change, Mavi has also helped in organizing the plane to India loaded with APP ‘election volunteers”, and was quoted as Toronto Star. He also said that volunteers from Toronto are part of a campaign and they will see thousands of Indian expatriates who will be arriving in Delhi and also in Punjab to help AAP in the upcoming elections. Mavi’s interest in politics began 8 years ago, when he realized that bribes were unnecessary and basic rules must be respected such as, stopping when the traffic signal is red. In the upcoming elections, Mavi will be riding an AAP campaign bus that will support a rally in 16 largest constituencies of Punjab. Mavi joined the Canadian branch of AAP, which had a tremendous burst into the political scene in India two years ago with a platform which ensured to end the culture of bribe taking. The key issues which will be addressed in the campaign are, AAP’s proposals to fight drug abuse among youth in Punjab and programs which will give more support and money to farmers to cultivate more crops. Azad Kaushik, Canadian president of the Overseas Friends of BJP, admitted to "an anti-incumbency factor" in Punjab. But he told the Star over the phone from Delhi, where he was visiting, that the BJP's economic record would keep its coalition with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in power in Punjab. Kaushik had also accused AAP for ‘failing miserably’ in Delhi which it governs. Polls which were conducted in the recent months showed a widely different results. But now AAP is also having a quite significant impact in the Punjab. The Punjab state election is likely going to witness a three way fight between SAD-BJP, Congress and AAP for 117 seats. AMandeep
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NRIs and PIOs Face Heat of Demonitization January 16, 2017 10:58
After local residents in the country stood hours in long lines for the exchange of their old 500 and 1000 currency notes, now NRIs and People of India Origin (PIO) are waiting in the long queues to exchange their old notes at 5 designated RBI branches in the country but because of severe strict conditions several of them have had to return disappointed. Tempers ran high outside the central bank branches as people coming from long distances were denied entry by the guards on the grounds that they were not carrying the requisite documents. Many NRIs complained that they were not allowed to speak to officials who could at least listen to their grievances. Ritu Diwan an agitated US national said, though she had a foreign passport, her family still visits India every year. She still had few Indian currency notes and she wants to exchange them, but most of the NRIs and PIOs were not allowed inside the RBI. Mr. Prime Minister are we supposed to burn Indian currency that we still have? She said. Diwan also said “This unnecessary harassment simply indicates that PIOs are no more welcome to the country. Dharamveer, another US national, said PIOs generally keep some amount of Indian currency as they frequently visit India. And there is no point in paying commission on the exchange of currency for each visit. He also said that any PIO who keeps visiting the country easily have 50,000 to 1,00,000 worth of Indian currency and Dharamveer has challenged the government to prove their currency as black money and forfeit that from them. We do not spend that money in the country where we live now, but the country of our origin. He said that by chance, he was there at this time and wanted to exchange a few of his currency notes, but they were not allowed to do so. It was very frustrating. Many PIOs were turned away from RBI, protested that they do not have millions of rupees, but they only had few thousands which the administration must exchange. People were frustrated towards the policy of the government and according to the reports. As a mark of protest NRIs threw defunct currency notes at the gate of RBI. Besides NRIs, many Indian citizens who failed to deposit their old currency notes during the 50 day limitation period, were also turned away from RBI after standing in the queue for hours. Prime Minister said that the currency could be still exchanged till March 31st 2017 at RBI, said Ram Kumar. Some people were still coming to RBI to exchange their notes hoping that security guards would allow them to enter and exchange their scrapped currency notes. AMan Deep
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Indian origin Doctor Fined January 11, 2017 12:44
An Indian-origin dentist in America is among the five other physicians who have been fined to pay $250,000 for not rendering paediatric dental services and making wrong claims in a government funded program to help poor children Akhil Reddy and the other four physicians Christopher Steven Villanueva, Trung Minh Tang, Mauricio Dardano, Gabriel Shahwan have agreed to pay $250,000 each to resolve the governments' claims against them individually, as a part of the agreement. The American Justice Department said that all the five physicians are owners or part owners of MB2 and the dental practices were included in this settlement, and practice dentistry in Texas. Frank Villanueva, MB2's head of marketing, also will pay a sum of $100,000 to resolve his alleged personal liability. Attorney Parker said that the settlement demonstrates their unwavering commitment to protect the Medicaid program and the patients, it serves from unscrupulous providers." Parker also stated that "Providers who waste taxpayer’s money by billing for services that they did not provide, or were improper, will be held accountable." As the part of this settlement, MB2 has now entered into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. This settlement will resolve all the allegations that were charged between January 2009 to December 2014, MB2 and affiliated dental practices submitted claims to the Texas Medicaid Fee for Service Program for single-surface fillings in children which were not provided. The states and the federal government jointly fund the Medicaid. The Texas state paid for part of the Medicaid claims at issue and the state will receive approximately half of the settlement amount. This settlement illustrates the government's emphasis on combating health care fraud and marks another achievement for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative, which was announced in May 2009 by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Justice Department said. The partnership between the two departments has focused efforts to reduce and prevent Medicare and Medicaid financial fraud through enhanced cooperation. One of the most powerful tools in this effort is the False Claims Act, it said. Since January 2009, the American Justice Department has recovered a total of $31.8 billion through the False Claims Act cases, with more than $19.3 billion of that amount were recovered in the cases which involved fraud against federal health care programs. Obama Chose four Indian Americans for the Highest Honour AMandeep
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