# 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 7 ISSUE 30 ● DALLAS ● JULY 26 - AUG 01, 2019 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news Indian Envoy Advocates for Nurturing H-1B Visa India Creates History with successful as Mutually Beneficial Partnership Launch of Chandrayaan-2: 4th Country Ever to attempt to Soft Land on Lunar Surface NEW DELHI /NEW YORK (TIP): Developed by ISRO, the mission On July 22 India created history was launched from the second when India's Geosynchronous launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 22 July 2019 Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV Picture / courtesy ISRO MkIII-M1, successfully launched the 3840 kgChandrayaan-2 spacecraft into an earth orbit. Launch of Ambassador Shringla congratulated Chandrayaan-2 was originally NASSCOM for the reports and emphasized the contribution of Indian IT companies to the scheduled for 14 July 2019 at 21:21 US economy Photo / Courtesy Indian UTC (15 July 2019 2:51 IST) but was Embassy, Washington called off due to a technical snag noticed while filling the cryogenic WASHINGTON (TIP): Pointing out engine of the rocket with helium. that Indian IT industry has been an Developed by the Indian Space important stakeholder in promoting and Research Organisation (ISRO), the supporting stronger bilateral business mission was launched from the relations between the US and India, second launch pad at Satish Dhawan India's Ambassador to the US Harsh Space Centre on 22 July 2019 at 2.43 Vardhan Shringla said that programs PM IST (09:13 UTC) to the Moon. such as the H-1B visa should be nurtured contd on Page 20 as a mutually beneficial partnership. During the Roundtable on 'America's Highly Skilled Workforce, the Talent Pipeline andH-1B Visas' hosted by the President Trump's Shocker for “It is essential that the pressure is kept on Wilson Center in Partnership with India: PM Modi asked him to to defeat the terror groups and support NASSCOM on July 23, Ambassador mediate between India and Pakistan Shringla congratulated NASSCOM for the host nations”: General Petraeus the reports and emphasized the to resolve Kashmir issue; A furious contribution of Indian IT companies to the US economy. "The Indian IT India stoutly denies industry has been an important stakeholder in promoting and contd on Page 20 Invites articles and advertisements for India's Independence Day special edition. General (Ret) David Howell Petraeus (Left), former Director of CIA, U.S. President Donald J. Trump shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime during a conversation with Vikram J. Singh, Sr. Advisor on Asia at US Articles may please be emailed Minister Imran Khan at the start of their meeting in the Oval Office Institute of Peace at the Consulate General of India in New York, July 23. to [email protected] by of the White House in Washington on July 22, 2019 Photo / Jay Mandal-On Assignment August 5, 2019. Photo / Courtesy Reuters Advertising space may please be booked NEW YORK (TIP): A day after Pakistan Prime Minister by August 4. Creative of the advertisement / advertising matter for designing an WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): President Donald Trump left Imran Khan claimed his country's spy agency ISI provided advertisement may please be emailed to India shell-shocked by turning the decades-long U.S. non- information that helped the US track down and kill Osama bin [email protected] by August 6. interference policy on its head when he offered to mediate Laden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency For any question, please between India and Pakistan to resolve the long-simmering (CIA) General David Petraeus said he is "convinced" that the call 646-247-9458. Kashmir dispute. contd on Page 20 Pakistani intelligence did contd on Page 2 Indian Origin Hindu Priest brutally attacked; Incident widely condemned NEW YORK (TIP): Indian diplomats, walking down the street in his religious attack. He's being charged with assault, US lawmakers and Community leaders in attire, a man came up from behind and harassment and criminal possession of a one voice condemned the brutal attack on a started hitting him, repeatedly. weapon. contd on Page 2 Hindu priest in New York City's Borough of The priest suffered bruises and Queensin open daylight. abrasions all over his body, including his India's Consul General in New York According to available reports, around face during the attack. 52-year-old Sergio Ambassador Sandeep Chakravorty met 11 a.m. Thursday, July 18, near the Shiv Gouveia, who reportedly screamed "this is Swami Harish Chander Puri on July 21 to know details of assault and inquire after his Shakti Peeth in Glen Oaks in Queens, my neighborhood" during the assault, was health while Swami Harish Chander Puri was arrested by police in connection with the Image / courtesy Twitter THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 TURN PAGE FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2019 contd from page 1 this during an interview with Fox News when he was asked whether his country would release jailed Pakistani INDIAN ORIGIN HINDU PRIEST surgeon Shakeel Afridi who helped the CIA track down BRUTALLY ATTACKED; INCIDENT Osama. The Al Qaeda leader was killed in a covert raid by a US Navy SEAL team in Abbottabad, a garrison town WIDELY CONDEMNED north of Islamabad, on May 2, 2011. "Swami Ji Harish Chander Puri spent this weekend "It was ISI that gave the information which led to the recovering from a brutal, despicable act of hate. Our city is location of Osama bin Laden. If you ask CIA it was ISI praying for him. But he says he's praying for his attacker", which gave the initial location through the phone tweeted NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. connection," Khan has said. "Glad that Hindu priest Swami Ji Harish Chander Puri Petraeus said that during counter-insurgency is now recovering at home & that @NYPDnews has campaigns, Pakistani authorities could never close in on arrested the man who allegedly attacked him. We cannot & North Waziristan where terror outfits such as the Haqqani will not stand for this violence in our city. We all stand w network, Al Qaeda and others had their headquarters and our Hindu neighbors", said U.S. Rep. Carolyn B Maloney. some of their forces. He added that the US learnt later on "I am disgusted over the violent attack on a Hindu priest General (Ret) David Howell Petraeus (Left), former Director of CIA that bin Laden was not in that area but near the Pakistan and Ambassador Sandeep Chakravorty, India's Consul General in in our borough. This type of brutal act is un-American and New York at the Consulate General of India in New York Military Academy in Abbottabad. "I figured out later that I the person who committed this heinous crime is a coward. Photo / Jay Mandal-On Assignment had probably flown right over his compound in a People from across the globe call Queens home and we are proud to embrace this rich diversity that exists in our communities and neighborhoods. I commend the NYPD for making a swift arrest in this case and I'm confident that justice will be served. I stand with the Hindu community and wish the victim a full recovery", said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens). "I will continue to stand in solidarity with the Hindu community in my district and across America. May god grant Swami Ji strength, so he may fully recover," Tom Suozzi, representing New York's 3rd Congressional District including parts of Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties, said on Twitter. Meanwhile India's Consul General in New York Ambassador Sandeep Chakravorty met Swami Harish Chander Puri on July 21."Met with Swamiji of Shiv Shakti A view of the audience Photo / Jay Mandal-On Assignment Peeth who was attacked by a miscreant. He is at home, diabolically difficult problem to deal with". recovering well and resumed his spiritual duties. Thanks "The challenge for Pakistan, of course, is that the helicopter as I went to address the cadets at the military to the Police for quick arrest of the assailant. Many thanks existential threat is not the country to its east, it is not academy one time," he said referring to the Pakistan to @RepGraceMeng & @RepTomSuozzi & the Indian India. It is the internal extremists. It is a very diabolically Military Academy. Community for their support," Ambassador Chakravorty difficult problem to deal with," Petraeus said Tuesday Petraeus said he hopes Khan will be able to deal with tweeted. The Hindu American Foundation urged police to during an interactive session at the Indian Consulate, the challenges of his country, where the economy is "very investigate the attack as a hate crime. "Such an attack - following his address on the topic of the Indo-Pacific. distorted" and where the "realities of the situation are occurring as it did in the borough of Queens, perhaps the Petraeus, a partner in the international investment firm really quite difficult." most ethnically diverse place in the entire world - is KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, was the On Afghanistan, the veteran and decorated US particularly senseless and tragic. We're pleased that special guest for the 'New India Lecture' series organized military officer said while the Afghans are fighting and Swamiji is recovering from his injuries. We're also pleased by the Consulate General of India, New York in dying for their country, "sadly the momentum of recent that Representatives Tom Suozzi, Grace Meng, and partnership with the US India Strategic Partnership years has been against Afghanistan rather than for it. It's Carolyn Maloney have offered their support to the local Forum. why I have some reservations about the prospects for a Hindu community.