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White House silence fuels speculation on Osama's endWashington: As the White House fell silent after a series of missteps, conflicting reports emerged about the killing of Osama bin Laden with Pakistan admitting that its India focus led to its failure to find the world's most wanted terrorist. A US Navy SEAL team killed the Al Qaeda leader in a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, just 120 km from Islamabad, with rapid shots to his chest and forehead, CNN said citing a US official who has seen military reports of the raid. There were weapons near Osama, who died on an upper floor of the compound toward the end of the nearly 40-minute raid, CNN cited Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee as saying. 'He was right there and going to get those arms,' she said offering her explanation of what the White House called some form of resistance offered by the unarmed Osama. 'You really can't take a chance.' But what the administration initially said was an 'intense firefight' leading to the Al Qaeda leader's death, The New York Times Thursday dubbed as an 'extremely one-sided' attack. The Times said officials briefed on the operation indicate the only bullets ever fired at the SEAL team came from Osama's trusted courier -- the man who inadvertently led the US to the compound -- in the first minutes of the raid. After that, once the SEALs entered the three-storey block-like structure, they were never fired upon again. Meanwhile, President Obama made it clear in an interview with '60 Minutes' that the White House would not release photos of Osama's body saying: 'We don't trot out this stuff as trophies.' With Pakistan in the dock over its failure to find the world's most Continued on page 4.....

Time magazines latest cover on Osama killing displayed on a billboard at Times Square in New York.

The Power of Goodwill is the Doshis success mantraNew Delhi: Initially on the defensive after US navy commandos raided Osama bin Laden's hideout in a Pakistani military town near Islamabad and killed the Al Qaeda chief on Monday, Pakistan on Thursday charged the Indian establishment and armed forces with trying to subvert Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's peace agenda. In a statement that neither amused nor surprised New Delhi, Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir warned that "any misadventure" would lead to a "terrible catastrophe" in the region. He was reacting to army chief General VK Singh's remarks on Wednesday that all three wings of India's defense forces were capable of carrying out a US-like operation in Pakistan.

Cornered Pakistan turns on IndiaThough Bashir criticized the US for violating Pakistan's sovereignty by carrying out the operation without keeping Islamabad in the loop, his tough talk was aimed at New Delhi. "Any other country that would ever act (similarly) on the assumption that it has the might... will find it has made a basic miscalculation," Bashir said. Responding to Bashir's statement, an Indian official said, "When cornered, Pakistan usually employs such tactics to divert attention. This time, it is to divert attention from the present mess Islamabad is in." The official, however, said "such rhetoric" would not derail the dialogue process resumed by Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani. "Their aim is to provoke India in the belief that it will set off a chain reaction of allegations and counter-allegations. That is not going to happen," the official said. The bilateral dialogue process suspended after the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008 - was given a fresh impetus by Singh when he invited Gilani for the India-Pakistan World Cup semifinal cricket match in Mohali on March 30. The two countries have already held talks at the level of the secretaries of home and commerce. The two water resources secretaries will meet next, on May 1114, followed by other teams to discuss the Sir Creek and Siachen issues later this month.

Dr Nitin Doshi and Dr Leena Doshi Hicksville, NY: Dr Nitin Doshi, who will receive Saturday the Ellis Island Medal of Honor 2011, is the Chairman of Diagnostic Imaging Group, which provides services through Doshi Diagnostic, started by his wife Dr Leena Doshi. They have now diversified into real estate and hedge funds, creating a multimillion dollar family business. The Long Island based Doshis also quietly support social causes and charities. In a rare and exclusive interview with The South Asian Times, they spoke of their business philosophy, people philosophy and gave success tips for Indian immigrants. See pages 15-18.

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Indian film fest in New York kicks off with Do Dooni CharNew York: The 11th Annual New York Indian Film Festival kicked off in spectacular fashion with the US premiere of the Delhi-set comedy Do Dooni Chaar, Disneys first live-action Hindi film.The starstudded red carpet premiere Wednesday night at Manhattans prestigious Paris Theatre was attended by special guests Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh along with writer/director Habib Faisal. Also attending the premiere were Pulitzer Prize winner author Siddhartha Mukherjee, Aparna Sen, Madhur Jaffrey, Aditya Bhattacharya, Ajay Naidu, Samrat Chakrabarti, Sarita Choudhury, and many other actors and filmmakers whose films will play festival through closing night May 15. Following the screening of Do Dooni Chaar was a discussion

Zawahiri betrayed Osama: Saudi paperDubai: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was betrayed by his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri who led US forces to his hideout as the two were involved in an intense power struggle, a Saudi newspaper has reported. The two top Al Qaeda men had differences and the courier who led US forces to bin Laden was working and had more loyalties for Zawahiri, al-Watan newspaper reported quoting Arab sources. "The Egyptian faction of Al Qaeda led by Zawahiri was de facto running the militant group, after Bin Laden was taken ill in 2004 and they were trying to take full control," the paper said

Standing behind Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh are Aroon Shivdasani, executive director of the Indo-American Arts Council, organizer of the film festival, and festival director Aseem Chhabra. with Faisal and the Kapoors moderated by festival director Aseem Chhabra. A gala benefit dinner followed at the opulent Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South.

PSG college, Coimbatore celebrations in the USNew York: The PSG college of Technology, Coimbatore (India) is organizing its Diamond Jubilee Celebrations across the US during 2011-2012. All the alumni are encouraged to get together to cherish the PSG moments. The gathering in New Jersey is scheduled May 7, 2011 at Chutney Mary in Monmouth Junction. The topics of discussion include alumni support for academic programs in the college, alumni support for joint educational program and research and involvement of the alumni in developing a road map for the development of PSG during the next 20 years. The visiting faculty team including G. Rangaswamy, Managing Trustee, C. R. Swaminathan, Chief Executive, and Dr. R. Rudramoorthy, Principal, will meet and interact with the alumni in the US. The team will look to create a corpus for the following: Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Fund (for 200 deserving students every year), Diamond Jubilee Faculty Development Fund and PSG Tech Corpus Fund

Nissan, the Japanese automaker, has been selected to produce the "Taxi of Tomorrow" in NYC after a competition in which its prototype received the highest score based on design features like interior legroom and durability. Nissan is expected to get a 10-year contract giving them exclusive right to make and sell yellow cabs.

Brahmrishi Kumar Swami honored by elected officialsMineola, NY: Brahmrishi Kumar Swami, a well-known spiritual guru of India, was honored at the Chamber of the Nassau County Legislature April 29. Judges of the New York Supreme Court, members of the New York State Assembly and Senate and public officials from Nassau County were present. US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Joseph Crowley were represented at the public reception organized by AWB Food Bank, a charitable hunger relief organization. Assemblyman Tom McKevitt joined Senator Jack Martins in presenting a Senate Proclamation declaring April 29 as Brahmrishi Shri Kumar Swami Day in the state of New York. Senator Gillibrand commended the efforts of the Swami to improve the welfare of others through humanitarian assistance. Congressman Crowley issued a Proclamation citing the Brahmrishi as one of the most scholarly figures of the world religions and bestowed congressional recognition upon him. Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano recognized the distinguished and outstanding record of excellence in community services rendered by the Brahmrishi through a Citation. Mangano also commended AWB Food Bank for its 20 years of selfless commitment and dedicated efforts for hunger relief and recognized its founders, Ratna Bhalla and Varinder Bhalla, upon distributing 8 million meals to the needy since 1991. The hall was packed to capacity; while majority of the people came from Long Island, many traveled great distances from Canada, California and Florida to meet the revered guru.

(L to R) TOH Clerk Mark Bonilla, TONH Receiver Charles Berman, NYS Assemblyman Tom McKevitt, Senator Jack Martins, NC Deputy County Executive Dr. Phillip Elliott, NC Legislator Wayne Wink, Varinder Bhalla, Brahmrishi Kumar Swami, TONH Supervisor Jon Kaiman, NYS Assistant Comptroller Joe Galante, NYS Assemblyman Charles Lavine, NYS Assemblywoman Michelle Schimell, Supreme Court Judge Thomas Adams, TOH Receiver Don Clavin, Supreme Court Judge Frank Gulotta, Ratna Bhalla.

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Gita gyan for Berkeley studentsBerkley, CA: Mrs Satya Kalra, founder of Path to Anandam, recently spoke on Bhagavad Gita and dharma to the class studying Ethics of Rights, Gender and Global Justice: East & West in the University of California at Berkeley. She presented vignettes from her recent book, My questions and Gods Answers based on the Gita. The course is part of the Religious Studies Major, a program initiative in the College of Letters of Science, supported by Philosophy and Human Rights Minor; it was devised and is being taught by Dr Purushottama Bilimoria, a philosopher with a training in Sanskrit and world religions. Satya Kalra said the Gita contains an essential message for contemporary times and the younger generation in particular. She elucidated doctrines such as Dharma and Karma, and how they might have relevance to thinking on ethics, justice, rights and duties. Her book, My questions and Gods Answers has been cataloged in the South and Southeast Asian library of University of California, Berkeley. White House story from page 1 wanted man hiding in plain sight near an elite military academy, Islamabad's envoy to US Husain Haqqani blamed it on neither complicity nor incompetence, but the intelligence establishment's focus on India. 'The only other explanation is the focus of Pakistan's national security strategy which has always been the perceived threat from our eastern neighbor,' he said on the Charlie Rose Show Wednesday. 'So it is possible people within our security establishment just did not take trying to locate Osama bin Laden as seriously as they should have,' Haqqani admitted. The envoy also suggested Pakistani fighter jets scrambled into the skies early Monday after incursions of its airspace were detected, thinking there was an attack from India. 'After all, we have always

Mangano discusses national concerns at White House briefingMineola: Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano met last week with Vice President Joseph Biden and other Cabinet Members in the White House during a Presidential Briefing given to the County Executives of America (CEA). He is on the CEA Board of Directors. I had a terrific opportunity to discuss the economic and national security issues facing Nassau County residents, said Mangano. I will continue to seek partnerships with both Federal and State officials to bring jobs to our region and put people back to work."During the briefing, Mangano had the opportunity to discuss the economy and national debt concerns with the Vice President. Secretary of Homeland assumed that any area intrusion into our sovereign territory will come from the east,' he said. Asked if he meant Afghanistan, Haqqani said: 'No, from India.' Investigators, meanwhile, pored over the material gathered at Osama's hideout. They include 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices, such as disks, DVDs and thumb drives, CNN said citing a senior US official. The material might provide clues on Al Qaeda members and plots for future attacks. The commandos also recovered five cellphones, audio and video equipment, paper documents and some five guns, including AK-47s and pistols, a US official said. 'As we glean information from that material, we will make appropriate decisions with regard to who might we add to the terrorist watch list, the no-fly list, all those things,' US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday. Security, Janet Napolitano, discussed working closely with the County Executive to advance the secure communities program which builds partnerships between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local jails to identify and deport criminal aliens.In advance of the meeting, Mangano informed the White House that Nassau County continues to search for new and innovative ways to attract employers in such areas as Homeland Security, composite manufacturing, and the film industry. In doing so, the County Executive stressed that all levels of government must continue to seek ways to reduce costs and create an economic climate that is more business-friendly.

Guyanese presidential candidate makes a pitch in NYNew York: The Association of Concerned GuyaneseUSA presented People's Progressive Partys (PPP) presidential candidate Donald Ramotar to an audience of over 600 at Club Tobago in Jamaica on April 29. President Jagdeo said at the event that Donald Ramotar will make an excellent President because he is not bigoted, and like Cheddi Jagan, he is guided by the philosophy to struggle for the rights of the people and to ensure that Guyana continues to be developed for all of our people. He has what it takes to be in charge of the future of Guyana. Ramotar committed himself to continue the progress that the P.P.P made over the last 19 years in government. He pledged to continue the struggle of the Party for the uplift of all Guyanese. Chairman of the Association of

PPP presidential candidate Donald Ramotar with a supporter at the event. Concerned GuyaneseUSA Dr. Raj Singh moderated the event. Among those in attendance were New York City council members Leroy Comrie and Ruben Wills, Minister of Tourism Maniram Prashad and Guyanas Consul General Brentnol Evans.

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Tagores 150th birthday to be celebrated at Times SquareMay 7 to be declared Tagore Day in ManhattanNew York: Manhattan Boro Pres will declare Saturday May 7th as "Tagore Day in Manhattan on the occasion of Nobel Laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birthday. The event to be held at Time Square Broadway between 43rd and 44th streets will have actress and filmmaker Aparna Sen attending as well. In a first, Indian, Bangladeshi & American national anthems will be sung at Military Island, Times square. The special guests for the event include Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Representative Carolyn Maloney (invited), Upendra Chivukula, Deputy Speaker of New Jersey Assembly, Professor Momtazuddin Ahmed, Cultural Minister of Bangladesh, Shabbir Ahmad Chowdhury, New York Consul General of Bangladesh and Aparna Sen. The event will also feature world premiere of American singers singing Tagore songs in English, followed by Bengali cho-

Amar Bose gives majority of company stock to alma mater MITBoston: Indian-American billionaire Amar Bose, founder of the iconic Bose Corporation, has given his alma mater MIT a majority of the stock of his audio equipment maker company, a gift that fulfills his "long-held desire" to support education at the prestigious institute. Massachusetts-based Bose Corp will continue to remain a private and independent company and MIT cannot sell its Bose shares. "Dr.Amar Bose has given to MIT (where he also taught) the majority of the stock of Bose Corporation in the form of non-voting shares," the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said in a statement here. In a letter to Bose Corporation employees, the company's founder paid tribute to his mentors at MIT - Professors Y W Lee, Norbert Wiener and Jerome Wiesner. According to sources from Wikipedia, Amar Gopal Bose, born November 2, 1929 is an American electrical engineer, sound engineer and billionaire entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chairman of Bose Following graduation, Bose took a position at MIT as an Assistant Professor. He focused his research on acoustics, leading him to invent a stereo loudspeaker that would reproduce, in a domestic setting, the dominantly reflected sound field that characterizes the listening space of the audience in a concert hall. Bose was awarded significant patents in two fields which, to this day, are important to the Bose Corporation. These patents were in the area of loud speaker design and non-linear, two-state modulated, Class-D, power processing. To found his company in 1964, for initial capital, he turned to angel investors including his MIT thesis advisor and professor, Dr.Y.W.Lee. In the year 2001, SiliconIndia conferred Dr.Amar Bose with the 'Life time Achievement award'. In the year 2007 (Forbes 400), he was listed as 271st richest man in the world, with a net worth of $1.8 billion.In 2009, he had dropped off the billionaire list, and made it back onto the list in 2011, with a net worth of $1.0 billion.

Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation Corporation. Amar Gopal Bose was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.After graduating from Abington Senior High School in Abington, Pennsylvania,Bose enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in the early 1950s. Bose spent a year in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in the research labs at NV Philips Electronics and a year in New Delhi, India, as a Fulbright research student.

Rabindranath Tagore rus with a dance rendition simultaneously. This was the vision of Celebration Co founder, Roger Sengupta, as he for the past 2 years put this team together and sponsored their learning lessons. Celebrations is the only organization that is doing an official Tagore Celebration in NYC on his actual birthday of May 7th and the only one ever to get a permit for Time Square.

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Indo-American pharmacist shot in New JerseyTrenton, New Jersey: An IndoAmerican pharmacy owner here was shot dead allegedly by a black teenager after he refused to give a medicine to the boy without a valid prescription. 52-year-old Arjun Reddy Dyapa, owner of Brunswick Avenue Pharmacy in Broad Street, was shot in the chest and brought dead to Capital Health Regional Medical Centre across the pharmacy around 6.30 pm local time. Eye witnesses said a teenage African-American with dreadlocks showed up at the counter and demanded a prescription medicine without producing valid prescription issued by a physician. Dyapa politely refused and said sorry but when the customer insisted that he be given the medicine, he told the boy that he would lose his licence if he obliges him. The customer, at that time, seemed to have resigned to the fate and nodded his head, said Dyapa's staff. The boy left only to return again and fired one bullet at Dyapa from his pistol from behind. The police have taken the video camera recordings and are confident of nabbing the criminal very soon. Dyapa, a native of Jadcherala village in Mehboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, is survived by wife Geetha and a 16-year-old daughter. Dyapa was an active community

Nanubhai founder Raj Shah New York: The Nanubhai Education Foundation held a fundraiser at Midtown Loft and Terrace in New York City on Friday, April 29, 2011 drawing over 300 guests to celebrate Nanubhais accomplishments over the past year. Celebrity photographer and the star of Bravo TV's Double Exposure, Indrani, and Actor Arjun Gupta from Nurse Jackie ( Showtimes Golden Globe & Emmy nominated series) were the honored guests of the evening. Other honored guests include Comedian Ruhbin Mehta, Actor Rahul Rai, and Karen Koeningsberg, NYC socialite and Founder/President of Cherished Feet. The Daily Show Correspondent Aasif Mandvi was originally confirmed as a special guest, but was unable to attend due

Celebrity photographer and the star of Bravo TV's Double Exposure, Indrani and actor Arjun Gupta from Nurse Jackie ( Showtimes Golden Globe & Emmy nominated series) were the honored guests of the evening. (Photos: Jane Qin Photography ; Thorsten Roth of WireImage ; Rob Kim of Getty Images) to a last-minute shoot in Arizona. The Nanubhai Education Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the education of rural students in India. Guests at the event enjoyed a spectacular view of the Empire State Building from the rooftop terrace. The evening included Indian cultural entertainment with performances by AATMA Performing Arts and NYC Garba Girls. DJ Kunal Merchant provided music to get the party started. Other highlights included a Ketel One Ice Bar, a silent auction which included a baseball signed by President Barack Obama, and a live auction led by comedian Ruhbin Mehta, which included a flight lesson with Nanubhai founder Raj Shah, a coffee date with Actor Arjun Gupta , cooking lessons with Travis Maier of La Fonda del Sol, and an autographed book and coffee with author, fashion photographer, and Americas Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker. The night's hit item was a behind-the-scenes VIP access to a celebrity photo shoot by renowned photographer Indrani, which sold for $1,300. The 3rd annual Nanubhai Gala was a tremendous success and helped us raise $60,000 to help provide children in India with the education necessary for them to take advantage of India's booming economy.

Arjun Reddy Dyapa activist and one of the founders of North American Telugu Association (NATA) and also a senior leader of American Telugu Association (ATA). He was involved with several social and cultural organisations in New Jersey. Steve Ettman, who owns Westside Pharmacy on Hermitage Avenue, said he was "absolutely shocked" by the news. He is offering a USD 1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer. "This could happen to any of us and Reddy was a nice guy, ever helpful," he said. The shocked Indian-American community leaders gathered at the hospital to console the family and assist in the identification of the culprit.

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Challenging Impossibility premiere Sikhism mandated in California at the Tribeca Film Festival law enforcement trainingFilm features Indian-born Sri Chinmoy's weightlifting marathon to inspire humanityNew York: If you become a Sri Chinmoy (1931 - 2007). spiritual person, you could Five-time Mr. Universe Bill accomplish anything. The Pearl said, Even a greatest amount of weight, he was bodybuilders in their prime moving was unheard of, wouldn't attempt to lift like Sri says Wayne DeMilia, Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy took Chairman, International up the sport at the age of 53 Federation of Bodybuilders, years. He performed his own in the film Challenging strenuous feats to spread his Impossibility about Indianmessage of world harmony and born spiritual teacher Sri inner peace, wrote the New Chinmoy. The films preYork Times reporting about miere was at the Tribeca the premiere. 'Challenging Film Festival in New York Impossibility' also shares Sri City. The premiere was Chinmoy's philosophy that age attended by World's should never be a barrier to Strongest Man 2002 Hugo achieving one's dreams, that, as Girard, Olympic Legend Carl he said, "Age is in the mind Lewis and three-time Mr. and not in the heart." Olympia bodybuilder Frank The film shows musician Zane, whose statements are Sting, President Nelson shown in the film. You Mandela and Nobel Laureate President Nelson Mandela lifted almost feel like gravity stops, Archbishop Desmond Tutu by Sri Chinmoy states Carl Lewis on the being lifted by Sri Chinmoy on screen, who was lifted by Sri Chinmoy on a a honorary platform overhead. After being platform together with an 2500 kg elephant by honored Desmond Tutu says to Sri Chinmoy: 2.5 inches. You are part of the spiritual force of love that Produced by Sanjay Rawal and Natabara emanates from God and which will transform Rollosson of New York the short film features the world. California: In a huge win for the Sikh community, starting this summer, all law enforcement officers in the state of California will be trained to identify and respect Sikhs and Sikh practices. The training will be given as part of a required class in all police academies throughout the state, and will also be available online. In addition, current police officers are being advised of the training materials through a two-page bulletin being issued to all police departments. The training, which is sponsored by Californias Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST), is part of a workbook used in police academies. It covers everything from identifying the 5Ks to how to search someone who is wearing a kirpan. Our goal is to ensure peace officers are trained to interact with various populations in California. By fostering respect for people of all religions, we hope that our officers and deputies will be better able to do their jobs in the field, said Bob Ziglar, Basic Training Coordinator of POST. The training is being implemented two years after Californias state legislature unanimously passed a law requiring Californias law enforcement officers to be trained about Sikhs. That law, AB 504, was vetoed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, POST has since been working with the Sikh Coalition and other local community members to devise a training plan of their own. Hundreds of Sikhs participated in lobbying for the original legislation, and this outcome is a direct result of their hard work. Thank you all. We are overjoyed that the state has finally taken the first step to stop unnecessary arrests of Sikhs for practicing their faith, said Neha Singh, Western Region Director of the Sikh Coalition. "The Sikh community should not live in fear of arrest by law enforcement for carrying the kirpan," said Assembly member Warren Furutani, who introduced the legislation two years ago. I thank POST for proactively taking these steps to ensure that Sikhs can practice their faith freely. The training does not mention anything about the legality of the kirpan in the state of California. However, hope is that training police officers about the Sikh articles of faith will foster religious understanding and decrease the number of arrests of Sikhs for carrying these items.

County Executive Edward Mangano is seen with the mens division first through third place holders in the half marathon. From left are 3rd place Peter Francis of Jackson Heights Queens and the Iron Runner Running Club, County Executive Edward Mangano, 1st Place Demesse Tefera of New York City and the Sikhs in America Running Club, Legislator Rose Walker and 2nd place Angel Confesor of Brooklyn New York and the West Side Runners Club.

In collaboration with Adhikaar and the Nepali immigrant community, writer/director Aya Ogawa and designer Jeanette Yew presented an on-stage performance called Yatra Samudra Samma (Journey to the Ocean) on April 30 and May 1 at the Rubin Museum of Art. Actors from the Nepali community told the story of a festival in the future where stories of past injustice and violence unfold to their imagined resolutions. Ritual, song and dance combined with technology in this performancein English and Nepalithat expressed hope for equality in New York.

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Tata group partners with Chicago Booth School of Business to explore impact of Indias transformationChicago, Illinois: The Tata group, one of Indias oldest and most respected business groups announced its sponsorship of and participation in the seventh annual Tata India Leadership Summit on May 14, 2011, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The conference, which is supported by Tata and hosted by one of the largest student organizations at Chicago Booth, the South Asia Business Group, will bring together distinguished thought leaders from across government, business and academia to discuss the widespread impact of Indias ongoing transformation on a global stage. This years conference, titled Indias transformation and you: How a changing India will impact your future, will focus on how India will impact American business, culture, and life in the coming decades. Panels will discuss topics that include investing in India, ensuring equitable growth, entrepreneurship and innofounder and managing director, Network 18 Group / CNBC India, and Shailesh Rao, managing director, Google Media and Platforms, Asia Pacific and Japan. Indias involvement in the US economy has become more prevalent than ever before, and is increasingly relevant given the growing importance of the relationship between the two countries, said Mr Chandrasekaran. Tata aims to support the missions of the countrys premier universities while building bridges between the US and India, and is delighted to leverage its expanding presence in North America to support platforms for open discussions such as the India Leadership Summit. Additionally, Sunil Sinha, chief, Group Quality Management Services, will participate in the conference as part of the 'entrepreneurship and innovation panel', providing an overview of the trends and themes for innovation in the South Asian subcontinent. The panel will also cover the innovation gaps and trillion-dollar opportunities from an investor's point of view. Tata believes that innovation is a key concept in motivating employees to think beyond the obvious, said Mr Sinha. It is our hope to bring the Tata groups spirit of innovation to its companies here in the US, where new ideas have always thrived. "The India Leadership Summit is one of the University of Chicago's largest conferences. Our partnership with Tata, one of India's oldest, largest and most prestigious business houses, provides us with an ideal platform from which to provide the university and the wider Chicago community with a true insider's perspective on the business and culture of one of the world's most dynamic economies, said Vishal Shah, conference co-chair, MBA candidate, class of 2011, University of Chicago.

University of Chicago Booth School of Business vation, and will combine insight from global business leaders with the academic rigor for which Chicago Booth is known. The conference will feature keynote addresses from N Chandrasekaran, chief executive officer and managing director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS); Raghav Bahl,

Seven Indians in 50 top women-led North American firmsWashington, DC: Indian origin women lead seven of the 50 fastestgrowing women-owned or womenled companies in North America, according to the non-profit group the Women Presidents' Organization (WPO) and American Express OPEN. In the US alone there are an estimated 8.1 million women-owned businesses that contribute $1.3 trillion to the national economy and employ 7.7 million people, US business magazine Forbes noted citing the list. The companies that made the top 50 generated an astounding $4.1 billion in combined revenues last year. Leading the Indian contingent is Himanshu Bhatia of Rose International, Montana, Contingent Workforce Services, in the third place. Ranjini Poddar of Artech Information Systems, New Jersey, IT Consulting in the seventh place comes next followed by Rachna Agarwal of Expedien, Texas, Business Intelligence in the 12th place. Gloria Rajkumar (16) of SIMAC Canada, Ontario, Coordinate Independent Medical Assessments, Kiran Gill (21) of PARS Environmental, New Jersey, Environmental consulting firm and Anjali 'Ann' Ramakumaran (26) of Ampcus, Virginia, Consulting services take the next three places. Sonu Ratra of Akraya, California, IT & Marketing staffing in the 37th place brings up the rear. Shelly Sun led the fastest-growing company on the list, BrightStar Care, a home healthcare and medical staffing company based in Illinois, which quadrupled its revenue in just two years to $100 million To qualify for the list, companies were required to be privately held, woman-owned or women-led, and located in the US or Canada. They were ranked according to a sales growth formula that combines percentage and absolute growth.

Tri-Valley University head indicted in visa fraudWashington, DC: The president of the California-based Tri-Valley University, whose closure affected nearly 1,500 Indian students, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on the allegations of visa fraud and money laundering. Susan Xiao-Ping Su, 41, was taken into custody Monday morning at her Pleasanton, California, home by special agents of the Homeland Security Investigations of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Su, who also served as the school's chief executive officer, is accused of engaging in a two-year scheme to defraud the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by submitting phony documents in support of Tri-Valley University's applications to admit foreign nationals on student visas. The indictment further alleges that after obtaining such approvals, Su fraudulently issued visa-related documents to students in exchange for 'tuition and fees' and engaged in multiple money laundering transactions totaling more than $3.2 million. 'Today's indictment alleges a visa fraud scheme through which the defendant accrued millions of dollars and took advantage of others' eagerness to come to the United States,' said US attorney Melinda Haag. The 33 counts contained in the indictment carry maximum penalties ranging from one to 20 years imprisonment.

H-1B technical skills training grant competition announcedWashington, DC: Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has announced the availability of approximately $240 million through the H-1B technical skills training grant competition. The U.S. Department of Labor expects to fund 75-100 grants through a single solicitation. Individual grants will range from $1 million to $5 million and will be distributed through two rounds of funding. The projects to be funded will help workers update current skills or acquire new ones so they can enter career pathways leading to higher-paying jobs. This administration is committed to getting all Americans back to work and into good jobs. These grants will create important opportunities for those who may still be searching for work after many months of unemployment, said Secretary Hilda L. Solis. As they seek out new careers in promising industries, our nations workers need and deserve access to quality training and employment services. The H-1B technical skills grant competition will help make that possible. The Labor Department intends to award at least $150 million to grantees that provide on-thejob training to all participants. The remaining funds will be awarded to applicants that offer other training strategies. At least $45 million of the total will be awarded to applicants providing training for occupations in the health care industry and at least $60 million will be awarded to applicants serving individuals experiencing long-term unemployment. Prospective applicants are encouraged to view the online tutorial Grant Applications 101: A Plain English Guide to ETA Competitive Grants, available at http://www.workforce3one.org/page/grants_toolkit. Prospective applicants can register at http://www.grants.gov to access the solicitation. The Labor Department also posts grant information at http://www.doleta.gov/grants.

Susan Xiao-Ping Su, president of Tri-Valley University, whose closure affected 1500 Indian students The charges include wire fraud; mail fraud; visa fraud and conspiracy to commit visa fraud; use of a false document; making false statements to a government agency; alien harboring; unauthorized access to a government computer and money laundering. According to a federal complaint filed in a California court in January, the TVU had helped foreign nationals illegally acquire immigration status. The sham university is said to have 1,555 students. As many as 95 percent of these students are Indian nationals, the complaint said. Investigations by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have found that while students were admitted to various residential and online courses of the university and on paper lived in California but in reality they 'illegally' worked in various parts of the country as far as Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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Indian owned US businesses rake in $150 billionWashington, DC: Owning nearly a fifth of 1.5 million non-farm US businesses owned by Asians operating the US in 2007, Indians raked in over $150 billion in revenue, according to a new survey. With their number going up by over 40.4 percent since 2002, these Asian-owned firms accounted for 5.7 percent of all nonfarm businesses in the US, employed 2.8 million persons (2.4 percent of total employment) and generated $507.6 billion in receipts (1.7 percent of total receipts). Of them Asian Indians owned 308,514 firms (19.9 percent of all Asian-owned firms), with receipts of $152.5 billion (30.0 percent of all Asian-owned firm receipts), according to the US Census Bureau's 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), released last week. Asian- Indian owned businesses recorded a growth of 38.2 percent. Among Asian Indian-owned US firms, 48.9 percent were in the professional, scientific, and technical services; the retail trade sector; and the health care and social assistance sector. Asian Indian-owned US firms accounted for 1.7 percent of all US businesses in these sectors. Retail trade, wholesale trade, and professional, scientific, and technical services accounted for 59.1 percent of Asian Indian-owned business revenue. California had the largest number of Asian Indian-owned firms at 58,995 (19.1 percent of all Asian Indian-owned firms), with receipts of $29.1 billion (19.1 percent of all Asian Indian-owned firm receipts). New York and Texas were next with 47,760 (15.5 percent) and 27,748 (9.0 percent) Asian Indian-owned firms respectively, with receipts of $17.2 billion (11.3 percent) and $14.0 billion (9.2 percent) respectively. Among US counties, Los Angeles County, California, and Queens County, New York, had the largest numbers of Asian Indianowned firms in 2007 at 16,730 and 16,324 respectively. The metropolitan statistical areas with the largest number of Asian Indian-owned firms were New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania (64,457); Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, California (23,151); and ChicagoNaperville-Joliet, Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin (17,362). "Asian-owned businesses continued to be one of the strongest segments of our nation's economy, bringing in more than half a trillion dollars in sales in 2007 and employing more than 2.8 million people," said Census Bureau Deputy Director Thomas Mesenbourg. Among all Asian-owned businesses, Asian Chinese-owned businesses accounted for 27.3 percent; Filipino, 10.5 percent; Japanese, 7.0 percent; Korean, 12.4 percent; Vietnamese, 14.8 percent; and other Asian, 9.9 percent.

Bendapudi named KU business school deanWichita: Neeli Bendapudi, a scholar of business practices and professor of marketing at Ohio State University, will become the Henry D. Price Dean of the University of Kansas School of Business. Bendapudi will take over on Aug. 1, returning to the institution where she earned her doctorate in 1994. She was selected after a nationwide search that began in November. She has been a marketing professor at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business since 2008. She began her time there in 1996 as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 2002. Previously, Bendapudi was an assistant professor of marketing at Texas A&M. She has consulted for dozens of the world's largest companies, including Cessna, Deloitte & Touche and Procter & Gamble.

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South Asian students shine as Presidential Scholars 2011Washington, DC: An impressive number of Indian American students have been selected as U.S. Presidential Scholars by the U.S. Department of Education out of 3.2 million graduating seniors nationwide. The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 to recognize and honor some of the nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. In 1979, the program was extended to recognize students who demonstrate exceptional talent in the visual, creative and performing arts. Each year, up to 141 students are named as Presidential Scholars, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students. The students will be honored in Washington, D.C., from June 18-21. List of South Asian Presidential Scholars: Teja R. Alapati, Randolph School, Huntsville, AL; Anjali A. Wagle, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Rainbow City, AL; Keshav Amla, Phoenix Country Day School, Chandler, AZ; Amita Gupta, University High School, Tucson, AZ; Neha Kumar, Saint Mary's Episcopal School, Forrest City, AR; Lara Mitra, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC; Akshay V. Save, Lake Mary High School, Longwood, FL; Rohit Agrawal, Wayzata High School, Plymouth, MN; Samantha S. Nanayakkara, Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science, Oxford, MS; Sanchay Gupta, The Meadows School, Las Vegas, NV; Divya V. Shah, Clarkstown High School South, West Nyack, NY; Anjali R. Sawh, Edmond North High School, Edmond, OK; Joya A. Ahmad, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA; Fatima I. Alvi, Westlake High School, Austin, TX; Karthik Sethuraman, William P. Clements High School, Sugarland, TX; and Arjun S. Dhillon, Fort Atkinson High School, Fort Atkinson, WI.

Vini Nathan named dean of College of Architecture at Auburn UniversityAuburn: Vini Nathan, dean of the School of Architecture at Philadelphia University, has been named dean of Auburn University's College of Architecture, Design and Construction, effective July 1. "Dr. Nathan's experience, in the classroom and as a practitioner and administrator, will be a valuable asset not only to the college but also to the entire Auburn University community," Provost Mary Ellen Mazey said. Nathan has taught in architecture and interior design programs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota and New York Institute of Technology as well as at Philadelphia University. Nathan was a practicing architect in New Delhi, India, and more recently worked as an architect for Walker Group/CNI in New York, a full-service architectural design firm. She was part of the team that worked on the Kuala Lumpur City Center, a design venture in conjunction with the noted architect and a former dean of the School of Architecture at Yale, Cesar Pelli. She earned a bachelor's degree in

Vini Nathan architecture from Anna University, India, a master's degree in interior design from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Michigan. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Nathan is a classically trained dancer, a competitive chess player and a self-professed trivia buff.

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Kicking off Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage MonthBy Gary Locke

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s co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Im honored to bat lead-off in what promises to be an interesting and informative month of blog posts on this site. Today, more than 16 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) make up one of the fastest growing and most diverse populations in the United States. Each of the dozens of distinct AAPI ethnic and language groups has a rich history that contributes to the fabric of our nation. A month-long commemoration of that history may be a relatively recent invention Congress expanded it from a week-long celebration in 1990 but May is a fitting month to pay tribute to our saga. It was May 1843 when the first Japanese immigrants came to

Gary Locke, co-chair, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders America, and in May 1869 the first transcontinental railroad was completed with substantial contributions from Chinese immigrants.

Indian American scientists honored by Cancer Research GroupOrlando, FL: The Society of Asian American Scientists in Cancer Research honored six Indian American scientists Dr. Ajay Rana, Dr. Shiv I. S. Grewal, Dr. Jay Sharma, Dr. Vinata Lokeshwar, Dr. Anindya Dutta and Dr. Rajeshwar Tekmal for their outstanding contributions to cancer research after they presented their original research at the meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research here April 2-6. The awards were presented by SAASCR president Dr. Rajvir Dahiya, a professor and director of the Urology Research Center at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, during an April 3 ceremony. SAASCR is registered in the state of California and has more than 3,000 scientists of Asian, mainly Indian, origin working in the United States and Canada in the field of cancer research. The society is a non-political and nonprofit organization.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders continue to play outsized roles in our nations society and economy. According to the newest Census data released just last week, between 2002 and 2007, AAPI-owned businesses increased 40.4 percent to 1.5 million, generating over $500 billion in sales and employing more than 2.8 million people. Many of these companies are small proprietorships, like the grocery store my family owned when I was growing up in Seattle. Small businesses are the engines that drive our economy, accounting for almost twothirds of all jobs in America. In fact, firms less than five years old accounted for nearly all increased employment in the private sector from 1980 to 2005. This is the power and promise of entrepreneurship, and thats a power that runs through the AAPI community today. A big part of my job as Commerce Secretary is to smooth the way for that long line of accomplishment to continue. But we have our work cut out for us. Despite tremendous successes, members of the AAPI business community still face hurdles to accessing federal programs and other assistance, including language barriers and a lack of awareness about the many resources offered by the federal government.Today, many AAPI entrepreneurs need access to resources such as management and technical assistance and small business loans to expand their businesses. Since the earliest

days of the Obama administration, we have passed a variety of measures to help AAPI businesses thrive: * The Recovery Act enabled 8,000 AAPIowned businesses to receive over $5 billion worth of new loans. * We passed new tax incentives that enable small businesses to deduct the cost of new equipment, new hires and even healthcare coverage. * Weve also focused on educating AAPI firms about government procurement opportunities. Thus far, AAPI businesses have collected over $1 billion in new government contracts and played a major role in our National Export Initiative. * And because the AAPI community often has such extensive contacts in foreign countries, weve offered significant aid for those interested in export and trade initiatives abroad. We have an opportunity to make a difference in the everyday lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in our country and the everyday lives of all Americans. That is what I strive to achieve every day as Commerce Secretary, and I promise this administration will continue this important work into the future.Thank you and have a wonderful AAPI Heritage Month. (Gary Locke is the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and Co-Chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.)

Ravi Shankar to celebrate 90th birthday at Kennedy CenterWashington, DC: Legendary virtuoso sitarist, composer, teacher and writer Ravi Shankar will celebrate his 90th birthday at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Monday, May 23. Known worldwide as Indias most esteemed musical ambassador, Ravi Shankar was the student of the illustrious guru Baba Ustad Allaudin Khan. A prolific composer, Ravi Shankar has collaborated with Western musicians and composed numerous traditional ragas and talas. His Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra was commissioned and premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra under AndrPrevin. A second sitar concerto, Raga-Mala (A Garland of Ragas), was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta in 1980. Shankars chamber works for Greece. Ravi Shankar has composed extensively for film and ballet. He was nominated for both a Grammy and Oscar for his original score to the Academy-Award-winning classic Gandhi and composed and choreographed the ballet Ghanashyam. Ravi Shankar is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Indian governments highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, or Jewel of India. Ravi Shankars extensive discography of more than 60 albums includes In Celebration, a lavishly documented four-CD retrospective of his greatest recordings issued in honor of his 75th birthday, and Full Circle, Carnegie Hall 2000, Shankars first live-concert recording in nearly two decades for which he received the Grammy Award for Best World Music Record.

sitar and other instruments includes violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin and works for flute virtuoso JeanPierre Rampal, shakuhachi master Hosan Yamamoto, and koto virtuoso Musumi Miyashita. Shankar has enjoyed a close relationship with Philip Glass, collaborating with the composer on the 1990 album Passages and the recent multi-artist work Orion, which opened the 2004 Cultural Olympiad in

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Pak warns US, India on raidsIslamabad: Faced with American fury and domestic anger, Pakistan blew hot and cold on Osama bin Laden -- denying links with Al Qaeda and warning Washington and New Delhi against any more air raids of the kind which killed the world's most wanted terrorist. In the most substantive official reaction since US special forces killed Osama in a mansion in Abbottabad city, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir took pains to underline that while Pakistan remained committed to battle terrorism, its sovereignty needed to be respected. In veiled remarks that it would not take any more intrusion by anyone kindly, Bashir said that Pakistan's leaders and people were proud of their "dignity, honor and make no mistake..". "Construing it in any other manner is wrong, simply wrong," he added. Bashir spoke a day after White House Press Secretary Jay Carney warned that the US would again carry out special operations in Pakistan if needed to target high profile terrorists -- comments that have only further incensed Pakistani public opinion. Admitting that the midnight Islamabad, and internally for being caught unawares about the US storming. Bashir took pains to say that not too much should be read into the fact that the sprawling house where Osama lived was located close to a military academy. He said the academy was four kilometers away. "It is a routine training institution." Bashir also vehemently denied linkages between Al Qaeda and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which for decades channeled US arms and cash to Islamic guerrillas battling the Soviets in Afghanistan. "It's easy to say that elements within the government were in cahoots with Al Qaeda. This is a false charge. "It cannot be validated. It flies in the face of what ISI has been able to accomplish (in the war on terror)." Bashir detailed the number of Al Qaeda leaders and operatives the ISI had arrested and handed over to the US. This included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani who was a key plotter of 9/11 that turned the US against the Islamabad-backed Taliban and led to a decade-long manhunt for Osama. "We are proud of the work of ISI. It is an important arm of the government which has contributed enormously to the anti-terror campaign." Ever since Osama was killed, allegations have mounted that the Al Qaeda founder could not have lived for so long deep inside Pakistan without some help from at least some ISI officers -- serving or retired. And while emphasizing that Pakistan and the US remained strategic partners, Bashir pointed fingers at Washington for creating Osama a long time ago. "Osama is history... The making of Osama is a separate theme. I don't want to elaborate on that." The killing of the world's most wanted terrorist right in the heart of Pakistan has given a fresh impetus to India's concerns on terror havens being nurtured on its neighbor's soil. Post-Osama death, will India get a fair justice as 26/11 accused and the world's second most wanted terrorist, Dawood Ibrahim, continue to enjoy the freedom in a country now being touted as 'Terroristan' by the global world?

Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir in a press conference. assault by US special forces that killed the elusive Osama did achieve "important results", Bashir said: "This can't be taken as a rule." And in a clear reference to India, he said: "Any other country that would ever act (similarly) on the assumption that it has the might ... will find it has made a basic miscalculation." He added: "We see a lot of bravado in our region... from the military, air force, which state that this can be repeated. We feel that this sort of misadventure or miscalculation will result in a catastrophe... "There should be no doubt that Pakistan has a capacity to ensure its own defense." Bashir sought to clear persisting doubts within Pakistan over the US attack by saying that it was a covert operation and that Islamabad was not consulted. He hinted that if the Pakistani military -- which was not told about the American assault -- had taken some counter measures, it "could have led to a terrible catastrophe. It is good that it has not happened". Pakistani authorities have come under widespread criticism abroad for allowing Osama to take shelter in Abbottabad city, not far from

'Pak mistook US incursions as Indian attack'

Was Osama protected by ISI?Washington: US and European intelligence officials increasingly believe active or retired Pakistani military or intelligence officials provided some measure of aid to Osama bin Laden to stay hidden in Pakistan, a media report said. Similar elements linked to the ISI have aided other Pakistan-based terror groups, the Haqqani militant network and Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for Mumbai terror attacks, the Wall Street Journal reported citing senior US and European officials "There's no doubt he was protected by some in the ISI," a high-level European military-intelligence official was quoted as saying. The officials, who have direct working knowledge of Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, were cited as saying they believe these ISI elements include some current and former intelligence and military operatives with long-standing ties to Al Qaeda and other militant groups, the Journal said. The officials, the daily said, didn't offer specific evidence, but pointed to the proximity of Abbottabad, where bin Laden was found and killed, to the capital Islamabad and its high concentration of current and former military and intelligence officers. They said aid likely included intelligence tips to help keep bin Laden ahead of his American pursuers. But others in both the US and Pakistan have cast doubt on whether Abbottabad would have provided a more hospitable refuge than other towns, or whether officials would have reason to believe bin Laden could be hiding there, the Journal said.

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani Washington: Pakistani fighter jets scrambled into the skies early Monday after incursions of its airspace were detected, thinking there was an attack from India, with its envoy in the US admitting that its India obsession was what led to its failure to detect Osama bin Laden hiding in plain sight inside the country. Hussain Haqqani, the envoy, said that the Indian incursion was presumed as Islamabad had not been notified about the American raid. "Absolutely. They should have been because they hadn't notified earlier and there could have been some incident," he said. "But then we also have to look at the displacement of our air systems. After all, we have always assumed that any area intrusion into our sovereign territory will come from the east." Asked if he was referring to Afghanistan, Haqqani said: "No, from India." "What you have to understand is that every nation has its own preoccupations, and we have a military and intelligence service that has always been concern about the threat from the east," he said without referring to India by name.

Yemen-based Al Awlaki may succeed OsamaLondon: A Yemen-based Anwar al Awlaki is tipped to succeed Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, who was killed earlier this week in Pakistan by US Navy Seals in a commando strike, a media report said. US-born cleric Al Awlaki is dubbed the bin Laden of internet because he uses the web to spread his evil gospel. The 40year-old called for a Mumbaistyle massacre during a sting operation carried out by The Sun. He has already engineered a string of attempted outrages here and in the US, The Sun reported. Al Awlaki allegedly brainwashed 21-year-old student Roshonara Choudhry into stabbing Labour MP Stephen Timms over his support for the war in Iraq. He also allegedly urged British Airways computer worker Rajib Karim, 31 - now in jail - to assist in a plot to blow up an airliner in a Lockerbie-style attack. He was also allegedly behind last year's ink bomb plot to down cargo jets. The US-born cleric was collared in San Diego in 1996 and 1997. He was fined the first time and put on probation the second.

Anwar al Awlaki is tipped to succeed Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.

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3 dead men at Osama's villaIslamabad: Photographs taken about an hour after the US assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons. The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths. None of the men looked like bin Laden. US President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of his body because it could have incited violence and used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool. "I think that given the graphic nature of these photos, it would create some national security risk," Obama told the CBS program 60 Minutes. Based on the time-stamps on the pictures, the earliest one was dated May 2, 2:30am, approximately an hour after the completion of the raid in which bin Laden was killed. Other photos, taken hours later at between 5:21am and 6:43am show the outside of the trash-strewn compound and the wreckage of the helicopter the United States abandoned. The tail assembly is unusual, and could indicate some kind of previously unknown stealth capability. US forces lost a helicopter in the raid due to a mechanical problem and later destroyed it. The pictures are also taken in sequence and from a head wound. US acknowledgment that bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead had raised accusations Washington had violated international law. The exact circumstances of his death remained unclear and could yet fuel controversy, especially in the Muslim world. Pakistan faced national embarrassment, a leading Islamabad newspaper said, in explaining how the world's most-wanted man was able to live for years in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, just north of the capital. Pakistan blamed worldwide intelligence lapses for a failure to detect bin Laden, while Washington worked to establish whether its ally had sheltered the al Qaeda leader, which Islamabad vehemently denies.

One of the three men died at Osama's compound in Abbottabad and blood on the floor of Osama's bedroom. are all the same size in pixels, indicating they have not been tampered with. The time and date in the photos as recorded in the digital file's metadata match lighting conditions for the area as well as the time and date imprinted on the image itself. The close-cropped pictures do not show any weapons on the dead men, but the photos are taken in medium close-up and often crop out the men's hands and arms. One photo shows a computer cable and what looks like a child's plastic green and orange water pistol lying under the right shoulder of one of the dead men. A large pool of blood has formed under his head. A second shows another man with a streak of blood running from his nose across his right cheek and a large band of blood across his chest. A third man, in a T-shirt, is on his back in a large pool of blood which appears to be

'Daughter saw bin Laden killed'Islamabad: A young daughter of Osama bin Laden, now in custody with a Yemeni wife of the al-Qaeda leader, saw her father shot dead, a Pakistani intelligence official said on Wednesday. The official from the InterServices Intelligence (ISI) agency said up to 12 women and children who survived the US raid on their villa were now in custody. The child, reported to be 12 years old, "was the one who confirmed to us that Osama was dead and shot and taken away," said the official.Four bodies were retrieved from the daring covert attack, including one of bin Laden's sons, said the official. Up to three women and nine children, including the young Yemeni woman who was shot in the leg and a daughter of the Saudi-born mastermind, are in detention, he said. Intelligence officials said the group were being interrogated. "There are a lot of questions we want to ask them," another official said. The Pakistani government said that family members of bin Laden were "being looked after" and would be handed over to their countries of origin.

Osama unarmed when killed: USWashington: Were the US Navy Seals on a kill or killor-capture mission? As the post-kill party winds down, questions are being raised about the Abbottabad narrative, some on details of the Navy Seals operation, others on policy drawing from the politics of those at the microphone. Bin Laden was shot and killed. (But) he was not armed, said White House press secretary Jay Carney. The earlier narrative had an armed Bin Laden trying to shoot his way out of the raid. Though not armed, Carney insisted, al Qaeda chief did resist. He was also said to have used a woman not specified who as a shield. He hadnt actually. The story is likely to undergo a few more edits. About releasing pictures, pressure is coming essentially from some crazies and conspiracy theorists who doubt if it the Seals indeed killed Bin Laden. They demand proof. The administration has held off so far arguing, one, the pictures are too graphic, and, two, they might anger and incite his followers to retaliate. But CIA chief

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announces US President Barack Obama's decision to not release photos of Osama bin Laden. Leon Panetta has hinted the pictures might be released. The remaining questions are broadly tethered to politics, raised mostly by the conservatives. Republican senator Lindsey Graham, for instance, has blamed oversensitivity for the elaborate funeral rites for Bin Laden. Graham and other critics dont question the burial at sea, most people appreciate the logic that it was done to prevent Bin Laden from turning into a shrine. And the last question, about enhanced interrogation, is pure politics. The point about how waterboarding (suspect dunked into water and made to struggle for air) gave US intelligence the critical information of the hunt, was first made by Republican Peter King. The courier, who eventually led the US to Bin Laden, was forced out of Khalid Mohammad Sheikh by waterboarding him. These are only some of the significant debates swirling around Abbottabad. Pakistans role is the other,

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Battle against al-Qaeda has not ended: HillaryRome: Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has warned that the battle against Al Qaeda did not end with the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. "Let us not forget that the battle to stop al Qaeda and its affiliates does not end with one death, she said at a press conference in Rome with Italys foreign minister, Franco Frattini. We have to renew our resolve, not just in Afghanistan and Pakistan but around the world. The US will track down and where necessary kill or capture those who are directing actions against our troops. Criminals who indiscriminately murder innocent people will be brought to justice." She emphasized that while the murder of Osama represented "a significant blow" to al Qaeda, she cautioned that "our resolve is even stronger following bin Laden's death because we know it will have an impact on those who are on the battlefield in Afghanistan." However, Clinton also assured that her government would continue its close ties with Pakistan, despite the questions and suspicions raised by the discovery of Osama in a military compound in that country. Clinton refused to divulge any further details of the commando raid on Osamas compound, nor would she answer a question on whether or not the US would launch a similar attack on Moammar Gaddafi, the leader of Libya.President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top White House officials watching a live video of US Navy SEALss raid of Osama compound. Clinton described those 38 minutes of the raid "the most intense moments of her life

The kill boosts Obama, temporarily at least'

Al Qaeda planned attacks on trains in USWashington: Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates Al Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But counterterrorism officials say they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and have no recent intelligence pointing to an active plot for such an attack. As of February 2010, the terror organization was considering plans to attack the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. One idea was to tamper with an unspecified U.S. rail track so that a train would fall off the track at a valley or a bridge, according to a joint FBI and Homeland Security bulletin sent to law enforcement officials around the country Thursday. The al-Qaida planners noted that if they attacked a train by tilting it, the plan would only succeed once because the tilting would be spotted the next time. The warning, obtained by The Associated Press, was marked for "official use only." Information on the train plot appears to be the first widely circulated intelligence pulled from the raid this week on bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan. After killing the terror leader and four of his associates, Navy SEALs confiscated a treasure trove of computers, DVDs and documents from the home where U.S. officials believe the Al Qaida chief had been hiding for up to six years. Intelligence analysts havebeen reviewing and translating the material, looking for information about pending plots and other terror connections.

President Obama greeted members of the military and their families at the White House on Wednesday Washington: President Barack Obama's job approval rating jumped 11 points to 57 percent after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, but Americans fear another attack, polls showed on Wednesday. A New York Times/CBS News poll showed the bump in Obama's performance rating -- which it warned could be short-lived -- but also found that more than six in 10 Americans believed the threat of extremist attacks against the US was likely to increase. Bin Laden, who had become the face of Islamist militancy since masterminding the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was shot in the head by U.S. forces who stormed his compound in Pakistan on Monday after a decade-long manhunt. A separate USA Today/Gallup survey of 645 adults showed that 62 percent of Americans believe an act of terrorism is either "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to occur on U.S. soil within the next several weeks. "The current results indicate Americans are slightly more likely to be worried about a terrorist incident occurring than they were shortly after the London bus and subway bombings in July 2005, but are less worried than at the start of the Iraq war as well as immediately after 9/11," Gallup said. While fearful that a retaliatory attack could be imminent, 54 percent of those polled by USA Today/Gallup believed the country was safer in the longer term from terrorism. The bump in Obama's ratings may not last. The New York Times/CBS poll said that former President George W. Bush received an 8-point boost after the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003, but that bounce evaporated within a month. Obama's popularity had been hurt by economic woes and high gasoline prices. Voters are expected to focus again on domestic concerns crucial to his 2012 re-election prospects.

In raid, US used stealth chopper, a secret so farWashington: The assault team that killed Osama bin Laden sneaked up on his compound in radar-evading helicopters that had never been discussed publicly by the US government, aviation analysts said Thursday. The commandos blew up one of the helicopters after it was damaged in a hard landing, but news photographs of the surviving tail section reveal modifications to muffle noise and reduce the chances of detection by radar. The stealth features, similar to those used on advanced fighter jets and bombers, help explain how two of the helicopters sped undetected through Pakistani air defenses before reaching the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad. The use of the specially equipped helicopters also underscores the extent to which American officials wanted to get to Bin Laden without tipping off Pakistani leaders. Analysts said the raid was a rare case in which stealth aircraft, devised for conventional warfare during the cold war, became critical to fighting terrorism. Military and intelligence agencies have refused to comment about the use of stealth aircraft in this raid. But since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the special forces have spared no expense in developing technology to hunt terrorists, and aviation experts said the debris from the damaged helicopter provided further evidence of that.

Obama goes to Ground Zero, to also meet Osama kill teamNew York: President Obama laid a wreath Thursday at the site of the fallen Twin Towers in New York to honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The trip to the city was his first following the killing of Osama bin Laden as well as his first visit to Ground Zero since taking office. White House spokesman said Obamas visit was intended to mark the "cathartic moment for the American people." The President will also meet with some of those involved in the military assault that killed Bin Laden when he visits Fort Campbell, Ky., on Friday. A team of Navy SEALs raided a compound in Pakistan, killing the terrorist mastermind. Fort Campbell is home to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which participated in the raid against Bin Laden.

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The inside story of Osama huntNew Delhi/New York: When one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led US pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist. That monitored phone call, recounted by a US official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden's personal courier, the key break in a worldwide manhunt. The courier, in turn, led US intelligence to a walled compound 60km from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, where a team of Navy Seals shot him dead. The violent final minutes were the culmination of years of intelligence work. To the CIA team hunting bin Laden, it was always clear that bin Laden's vulnerability was his couriers. He was too smart and too paranoid to let Qaida foot soldiers, or even his senior commanders, know his hideout. But if he wanted to get his messages out, somebody had to carry them, someone bin Laden trusted with his life. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, detainees in the CIA's secret prison network told interRawalpindi, he confirmed knowing alKuwaiti but denied he had anything to do with al-Qaida. Then in 2004, al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. Ghul told the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was crucial to Qaida. In particular, Ghul said, he was close to Faraj al-Libi, who had replaced Mohammed as al-Qaida's operational commander. It was a key break in the hunt for in bin Laden's personal courier. "Hassan Ghul was the lynchpin," a US official said. Finally, in May 2005, al-Libi was captured. He admitted to the CIA that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed, he received the word through a courier. But he made up a name for the courier and denied knowing al-Kuwaiti, a denial that was so adamant and unbelievable that the CIA took it as confirmation that he and Mohammed were protecting the courier. It only reinforced the idea that al-Kuwaiti was very important to al-Qaida. If they could find the man known as al-Kuwaiti, they'd find Osama.

The websites of different newspapers in Germany reporting the death of Osama bin Laden. rogators about a courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was close to Osama. After the CIA captured Qaida's No. 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in

'Osama killing was shared achievement'Islamabad: The killing of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a "shared achievement", the US's special representative to Afghanistan-Pakistan Marc Grossman said while the Pakistan foreign secretary asserted his country would "not allow our soil to be used for terrorism". "The three countries that are here share a commitment to put end to extremism. The three countries believe that it was a shared achievement," said Grossman following a trilateral meeting of senior officials from the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan here. He said the Al Qaeda leader was an enemy of both the US and Pakistan, as thousands of Pakistani civilians and soldiers had died at the hands of terrorists. When asked about various conspiracy theories sur-

It took 10 yrs, $1.3tn to kill Osamahe costliest and bloodiest manhunt in human history came to an end when Osama bin Laden was killed by US special forces in a nighttime shootout in Abbotabad, Pakistan. With a bounty of $50 million on his head, Osama had played hide and seek with the US for nearly a decade since former president Bush declared him the arch terrorist and the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. The US launched a Global War on Terror after the attacks. Initially focused on Afghanistan, where bin Laden was supposed to be hiding, this war soon spread to Iraq, and distant places like the Horn of Africa and Philippines. Dozens of countries got involved. But the centerpiece remained the elusive bin Laden. The US has spent $1.28 trillion till now on this war, according to a recently released study of the Congressional Research Service, an arm of the US Congress. The bulk of this $806 billion or 63% of the total has been spent in Iraq while Afghanistan sucked up $444 billion or 35%. Strengthening of US military bases all over the world has taken up about $29 billion. The

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US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman delivers a speech as Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Jaweed Ludin look on, in Islamabad. rounding bin Laden's death, Salman Bashir was categoriGrossman said: "You can cal that he would not go into have as many conspiracies as whether Pakistan governyou wish. He's dead, it's ment was involved in the US good. We still have to fight raid that killed bin Laden. "I think there is no point as extremism." The Pakistani Foreign far as I can see getting into Office issued a statement that the forensics of this particuit was entirely a US opera- lar operation. And who did tion. Speaking to reporters, what. That is besides the Pakistan's Foreign Secretary point," he said.

People who lost family during the terrorist attacks on 9/11 speak during a news conference in New York City.

Deep shame over Osama's killing: dailyIslamabad: The fact that Osama bin Laden was living right under the "military's nose" added to the way in which he was killed were matters of deep shame, a leading Pakistani daily said. An editorial in the Dawn said: "Not since Abdul Qadeer Khan confessed to transferring nuclear technology to Iran and Libya has Pakistan suffered such embarrassment." "Right under our military`s nose was found Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man of the decade, living in relative comfort in a compound with stringent security that somehow went unnoticed. "Nor was this man simply an enemy of other countries; he and his ideology have exacted a stunning death toll in Pakistan over the last few years. Add to this the way he was killed, and embarrassment turns into deep shame." It noted that US forces operating independently of Pakistani authorities flew from the Afghan border into Abbottabad in helicopters and then conducted a 40-minute firefight at Osama's safe house - "again, a building located within walking and visual distance of the Pakistan Military Academy". Pakistan's denial of information on the US raid "leaves us with multiple sources of embarrassment and worry". "It implies that foreign military helicopters were able to travel undetected across our airspace, transporting highly trained operatives who conducted a dramatic operation without being interrupted by any Pakistani lawenforcement agency or the military.

researchers could not account for the balance $6 billion. The US Congressional Budget Office has projected that the total cost of war would reach a mindboggling $1.8 trillion by 2021. This includes the declared troops reduction schedules. Even with bin Laden dead, expenditure on the war effort is unlikely to reduce any further since in both Iraq and Afghanistan, bin Laden or his organization al-Qaida are not the main opposition to US. The Osama manhunt easily qualifies as the bloodiest ever. US itself has lost nearly 6000 of its troops and another 55,000 have sustained injuries. But the price paid by civilians has been very high. Over 1.2 million people

are estimated to have died in Iraq in direct armed conflict although other studies put the figure much higher. In Afghanistan, over 20,000 people have been killed and nearly 50,000 injured in the war. In Somalia and neighbouring countries at least 6500 people died in the course of the past decade. All figures are at best approximate and likely to be under-estimates as there are no official body counts. There have been at least 13 major terrorist attacks since 9/11, killing over 1000 persons. Besides these, there have been at least 10 planned attacks that were busted. Not all of these attacks can be directly linked to bin Laden or al-Qaida.

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Dr Nitin Doshi, Ellis Island Medal winner for 2011, is the Chairman of Diagnostic Imaging Group, which provides services through Doshi Diagnostic, started by his wife Dr Leena Doshi. They have now diversified into real estate and hedge funds, creating a multimillion dollar family business. The Long Island based Doshis also quietly support social causes and charities

The Power of Goodwill is Doshis success mantraBy Parveen Chopra

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r Nitin Doshi will be a proud Indian American when on May 7 he receives the Ellis Island Medal of Honor at a special ceremony in New York. The prestigious medals are given every year to immigrants for their distinguished contributions to the nation and the community. Dr Doshi gives full credit for all their success to his wife of 40 years, Dr Leena Doshi, because we do everything together. He would have preferred a joint award, but it was not in the medals rule book. Actually, in public mind, the couple is more associated with Doshi Diagnostic chain, which was founded 25 years ago by Dr Leena Doshi, a radiologist. Around 1992, Dr Nitin Doshi left his successful dental practices to manage and grow her radiology business, which under Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG) now employs 1,400 people and has 30 locations in New York, New Jersey and Florida. Diversifying, he ventured into real estate with NDC Capital, and a hedge fund in India, Heritage Capital. The corporate office of DIG is in Hicksville, NY, and of financial businesses in Manhattan. To fulfill their corporate social responsibility, they have set up a foundation that has partnered with NGOs like Pratham, AIF Share & Care and Veerayatan.

Dr Nitin Doshi will be conferred Ellis Island Medal of honor this Saturday The Doshis live in Great Neck, NY and have one daughter and one son, both married. To leave a lasting record of their life journey and outlook on life for the coming generations in their family, Leena is writing an autobiography and Nitin is using the medium of a documentary film, both for private consumption. In a rare and exclusive interview to the South Asian Times, Dr Nitin Doshi spoke at length about his journey from a boy in Sudan to a boarding school in India to finding stupendous success in America. He also delineated the Doshi business philosophy, people philosophy, and shared his tips for immigrants to succeed in America. Excerpts: SATimes: What is your business philosophy? Dr Nitin Doshi: If I ever were to write a book about my life, it will be titled something like The Power of Goodwill. People dont really grasp how powerful that tool is. To me everything that I have, if I have to go back and think about all the different times that I was successful, is mainly because I created lot of goodwill with the people that I was dealing with. The more goodwill you create, whether it is your family, your friends, your employees, your business associates, bankers, whoever you are dealing with--you can get a lot more from people if they trust you and like you. My philosophy has always been for our peo-

ple to fall in love with me, for who I am, and Ill try to do things for them. I go out of my way to help people to win their trust and their love. And this is who I am. I try to do this with every single person I come in contact withwhether they are employees or Kamlesh Mehta. I want to make sure they know that I am very helpful, open, well-grounded, a real person. And I want them to like me for who I am and trust me for what I am saying. That creates a lot of goodwill. SAT: Employees at Doshi Diagnostic are said to work for a lifetime. How do you win their loyalty? Dr Doshi: We care about them. Leena focuses on their strengths, and gives them space to grow in that strength. Even if they are not paid too high, when they come to work on their strengths, they enjoy what they are doing and growing in. A happy employee is a loyal employee. Caring can take a different form. When in 2005 we sold our business, we kept apart and distributed $12.5 million among our employees. SAT: You are a success story. What advice will you give to new Indian immigrants to be successful here? Dr Doshi: Assimilate. And understand the way of life here. We are in their country, and need to understand their ways. That is one of the things we adopted early onLeena and I decided that we are going to raise our kids in a way that the sooner they assimilate, the

Exclusive Interviewbetter off they will be. It does not matter that they may look different, sound different. The biggest challenge an immigrant faces is he must learn the American way of life while retaining Indian culture and heritage. To me culture has never meant that you have to wear a sari, eat Indian food and watch Indian folk dance, or see Hindi movies. To me, culture has always been a lot more deeper, spiritual, the value system that we have learnt in India, respecting the elderly, helping the unfortunate, be there to help people in need before they ask for help. SAT: When and why did you diversify beyond medicine? Dr Doshi: It happened in 2005. But first a bit of the monetary history of Doshi Diagnostic. In 1997 we sold 70 per cent of the management company to a firm in California for $48 million. In 2000 we bought it back for $60 million because we had grown the business meanwhile. The same business we grew from 2000 to 2005 and we sold 65% of the company when its enterprise value was $265 million. So we as a family continue to own as private equity group 27% of the company and the rest is with other private equity groups. Thus, in 2005 we had monetized a substantial amount and I wanted to diversify out of healthcare. That is when I started real estate private investment firm, NDC Capital. Today we have about $800 million worth of real estate and we continue to grow that business. SAT: Did the economic collapse affect NDC Capital? Dr Doshi: In 2005 I brought in and seeded a professional team from Citibank who were in real estate for 30 years. This team of eight bankers was managing $4 billion for Citibank, which decided to close that division. I had dealt with them for nine years and convinced them to start their own company--I was to pay for their salaries, working capital and $50 million to buy real estate. That is how NDC Capital got founded. In 2006 we started buying Continued on page 16....

Dr Nitin Doshi with wife Dr Leena Doshi, when she received the Asian Women in Business Award in 2005

Doshis son Nishat, son-in-law Todd Cather and daughter Neely

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Doshis: Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, MentorsContinued from page 15 multifamily apartment buildings in areas where employment is not going to be affected. This was before the economic collapse. So the last 4-5 years we have not been affected as much because we did not have much commercial real estate. Our assets, these multifamily apartments, are all in the US, in states like Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina. SAT: And how did you come to start a hedge fund in India? Dr Doshi: In 2006 I went to India because my father was not well. It is then I saw a booming India. When I came back I told this to the gentleman who runs my family office, Doshi Capital Partners. Basically I have a professional teaman investment banker, an accountant, two analysts, who actually manage our money for us. So I said we should really be investing in India. We decided on floating a long/short equity fund in listed securities in India, and were lucky to find the right person to head that company. Rajesh Bhatia, who was managing $1.5 billion at Reliance Capital, moved with his team and we seeded them, gave them $20 million to start the investment. That was in January 2008. Called Heritage whole controversy on the