5/16/2013 A subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to pay a record $500 million in fines for selling adulterated drugs. |
| 5/16/2013 During a talk at Boston University's India Symposium earlier in the month, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake said President Obama has labeled India as America's "most important" partner in Asia for the 21st century, according to a report from OneIndia. |
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5/16/2013 A Boston-based startup dedicated to providing utility tracking and analysis for building owners recently received $3 million in new funding from Boston Community Capital. |
| 5/9/2013  Boston-based startup Kinvey Inc., has hit the market with its mobile application for Salesforce CRM systems. Kinvey is a backend-as-a-service company that makes it easy for businesses to setup and operate cloud backends for mobile, tablet and Web apps. The company was founded by CEO Sravish Sridhar in 2010 and has raised over $7 million in funding. |
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5/9/2013  History was made in late April as Representative Judy Chu (D-CA) and Representative David Valadao (R-CA) announced the launch of the first-ever American Sikh Congressional Caucus. Representatives Chu and Valadao are the co-chairs of the caucus. As of yesterday's launch, 30 bipartisan members of the U.S. House of Representatives have already joined the caucus. |
| 5/9/2013  Asian American Hotel Owners Association Vice Chairman and South Central Texas Regional Director Pratik R. Patel was named a winner of an American Hotel & Lodging Association Whitaker Award and the State Leadership Awards at the association's 2013 Legislative Action Summit in Washington, D.C., recently. The State Leadership Awards were created in 1998 to honor standout members in each partner state association who help implement and strengthen programs. Award recipients, who are chosen by AH&LA's partner state associations, hailed from over 15 states across the nation.
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4/25/2013
 Chief Minister of the Government of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav is visiting Massachusetts this week with a delegation from the Indian state. Yadav will speak at Harvard University on April 26 as part of the school's "South Asia Without Borders Symposium." He will take part in a panel "Harvard without Borders: Mapping the Kumbh Mela," which will be held from 1:30-3:00 p.m. at The Inn at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. |
| 4/25/2013
 Providence Police pulled a man's body out of the Providence River on Tuesday April 23 and, after several days waiting for the state medical examiner's office to complete its investigation, have confirmed that it is missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi. A forensic dental examination confirmed the positive identification. According to police, no signs of trauma were initially found and the cause of death will not be determined until further investigation can be completed. |
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4/25/2013
 Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Aloke Chakravarty, of the U.S. Attorneys’ Office Anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit, will prosecuted the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with killing people with a weapon of mass destruction, and faces life in prison or the death penalty. Chakravarty will be joined in the prosecution by Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb. |
| 4/3/2013
 The Boston chapter of the Indus Entrepreneurs is set for its annual convention TiECON East 2013, which will be held at the Cambridge Marriott in Kendall Square from May 2-3. The theme of this year's conference is "Empowering Entrepreneurs" and organizers have released a power-packed trio of keynote speakers: Jonathan Kraft, president of The Kraft Group; Tom Leighton, co-founder and CEO of Akamai; and Manoj Saxena, general manager of IBM Watson.
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4/3/2013
 The Rochester Hills, Mich.-based Mobile Champs, a mobile applications and software developer, launched the update of its movie puzzle game Cool Movie Quiz for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices running on iOS 5 or later, as well as Android phones and tablets. |
| 4/3/2013
 New footage from a surveillance camera has revealed critical clues which have fortified the search for Sunil Tripathy, a 22-year old Brown University student who has been missing since March 16. The footage appears to capture Tripathy on a street near his Providence, R.I., apartment just after his reported disappearance, according to authorities working on the case, which includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Providence Police. |
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3/28/2013
 Dr. Onaly A. Kapasi, an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Boston since 1980, will speak on “Osteoporosis: the Silent Disease” during the upcoming Indian and South Asian Health Expo on April 27 at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass.
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| 3/28/2013
 At a time when overall business growth in India has slowed significantly and the national GDP shows only a marginal rise the India small and medium business segment can be viewed as a beacon of hope. India SMBs show a 14 percent year-on-year rise in Information and Communication Technology expenditures and their adoption of technology is likely to continue to increase. This is a direct result of their need to utilize ICT tools to overcome nagging business challenges.
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3/28/2013
 Harbinger Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar private investment fund based in New York, has formed a joint venture with BS Enviro Solutions Ltd., a subsidiary of BS Ltd., an infrastructure provider in India, to operate Skywater India Ltd. and bring clean water technology to India and, eventually, to other countries in Southeast Asia.
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| 3/21/2013
 Saama Capital has provided new funding for enterprise-mobility and mobile-SI company AgreeYa Mobility. The additional financing will help AgreeYa Mobility expand market share for its enterprise mobility product, Onvelop, reaching companies using Microsoft products including Office 365, SharePoint and Lync, the company said.
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3/21/2013
 Jay Gupta, RPh, MScIM, MTM, co-founder of the nonprofit organization YogaCaps Inc., will speak on "Yoga Chikitsa for Common Conditions" during the upcoming Indian and South Asian Health Expo on April 27 at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass. Gupta will overview a number of chronic physical and mental health conditions from the perspective of yoga.
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| 3/21/2013
 The Worcester Business Journal has named Kris Canekeratne, chairman and CEO of the Westborough, Mass.-based Virtusa Corp. one of its “Business Leaders of the Year.” Canekeratne was honored in the large business category. Virtusa is a business consulting and IT outsourcing company, which was founded in 1996.
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3/15/2013
 The U.S.-India Business Council Chairman Ajay Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard Worldwide, arrived in New Delhi on March 11 with a high-powered delegation of American business leaders to accelerate and advance the pro-growth agenda that has brought two-way U.S.-India trade beyond the $100 billion mark, and establishes $500 billion in two-way trade as USIBC’s next goal.
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| 3/15/2013
 Pratibha Shah, Master of Ayurveda, will speak on “Prevention with Ayurveda” during the upcoming Indian and South Asian Health Expo on April 27 at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, Mass. Her talk will also feature a custom blend of 11 potent herbs that she recommends for use in winter for protection against respiratory illnesses, as well as general strength and vitality. |
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