– BUFFALO, N.Y. An Indian-American physician at the University at Buffalo is the first in Western New York to carry out a successful heart valve transplant. Dr. Vijay S. Iyer, assistant professor of medicine at the university’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has successfully led a team of highly trained physicians to implant aortic valves in four patients over the last few weeks.
London's Olympics offer the seemingly ageless Leander Paes the chance to outdo his father in the medals stakes and to crown his doubles tennis career. Paes's eyes still light up at the mention of the singles bronze he won at the Atlanta Games in 1996, ending India's 44-year wait for an individual Olympic medal. The success put him on a par with his father, Vece Paes, who was part of India's bronze medal-winning 1972 Olympic hockey team.
Priyanka Gandhi joined the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, injecting sparkle into a tightly fought race and overshadowing her brother Rahul, heir-apparent of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Vivacious and bearing a striking resemblance to her grandmother and former prime minister Indira Gandhi - who was known as "India's iron lady" - 40-year-old Priyanka has until now stayed mostly in the wings of the political fray.
She came, she saw, and, if gushing tweets are to be believed, she conquered. American talk show diva Oprah Winfrey arrived in Mumbai on Jan. 16, and Bollywood's first family rolled out the proverbial red carpet for her. Patriarch Amitabh Bachchan drove her around the city, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai presented her an orange-and-gold sari while son Abhishek accompanied her around town.
A video showing women of the Jarawa, an endangered tribe in the Andaman islands, dancing half-naked as tourists threw biscuits and bananas, created a media furore in India on Wednesday. The UK-based Observer newspaper released the video over the weekend showing a policeman asking the tribe's women to dance for food, after allegedly taking nearly 16,000 rupees as bribe from tourists.
Six months into his tenure as U.S. defense secretary, Leon Panetta has simultaneously been branded an unreasonable defender of Pentagon spending and an ax-man who is forging ahead with dangerous cuts to the American military. In Washington's power corridors, there are plenty of people who make one charge or the other about Panetta - and maybe even both at the same time.
Former cricketer Imran Khan reckons he could end militancy and corruption in 90 days if elected prime minister in a show of confidence which has helped make him Pakistan's most popular politician. He drew at least 100,000 people to the streets of Karachi on Sunday in a massive rally that increases pressure on the government and cements his standing as the new political force.
