When I saw an email from Twitter Legal in my inbox, I figured it was spam. Data phishers use those kind of emails to steal user passwords, but this was a genuine warning from the social media giant. The New York District Attorney’s office had filed a subpoena requesting my account information and all of my tweets from last September to the end of the year.
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, delivered the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell University on Feb. 13. Arun Gandhi, who lived with his grandfather in South Africa in his early teens, said he learnt his first lesson in nonviolence when he was throwing out his pencil, an occasion his grandfather used to instil awareness about the environment.
– NEW YORK For more than 30 years, he has fitted the city’s wealthiest and famous residents, and now, Mohan Ramchandani is using his skills and foothold in the custom tailoring market to dress some of New York’s underprivileged. He has partnered with the Hope Program to provide suits worth $1, 000 each to 17 recent graduates entering the job market.
A kiss may be just a kiss, but when sweethearts pucker up on Valentine's Day, they will be participating in one of the most bizarre and unlikely of human activities. Experts say kissing evolved from sniffing, which people did centuries ago as a way of learning about each other.
Comedians are rarely known for their diplomatic skills, but three South Asian-American stand-ups may just prove to be the exceptions. Rajiv Satyal, Hari Kondabolu and Azhar Usman recently concluded a seven-city India tour sponsored by the State Department. Their itinerary took them to Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Patna, Kolkata, Durgapur and Mumbai from Feb. 4 to 17.
A Class 9 student of a reputed public school here Thursday stabbed to death his teacher for complaining to his parents about his poor academic performance. The 13-year-old student of St. Mary's Anglo-Indian School killed Uma Maheswari, who taught Hindi and Science, in the classroom. Maheswari, a mother of two, raised an alarm when Irfan started stabbing her. She was rushed to hospital, where doctors declared her dead.
– BUFFALO, N.Y. An Indian-American physician at the University at Buffalo is the first in Western New York to carry out a successful heart valve transplant. Dr. Vijay S. Iyer, assistant professor of medicine at the university’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has successfully led a team of highly trained physicians to implant aortic valves in four patients over the last few weeks.
