# 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 6 ISSUE 39 ● DALLAS ● OCTOBER 05 - OCTOBER 11, 2018 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news Senators spar over FBI DEEPAVALI Festival of Lights Report on Supreme Court Nominee Special Edition November 2, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh: Protests erupt Articles and advertisements are invited for Deepavali Special edition of The Indian Panorama. WASHINGTON (TIP): Democrats are Please email to [email protected] & angry over FBI "clean chit" to President [email protected] Trump's nominee for Supreme Court Brett Last date for submission: October 20, 2018 Kavanaugh. Protests have erupted in For any question, please call 646-247-9458 Washington against Brett Kavanaugh whose confirmation vote is soon to be taken up by the Senate. Republican Senators appear South Carolina shooting leaves one confident that Kavanaugh will win confirmation. officer dead: cop killing suspect is The FBI report, sent by the White House to 74-year-old Vietnam veteran the Senate Judiciary Committee in the middle of the night, was denounced by FLORENCE, Democrats as a whitewash that was too SC (TIP): A man narrow in scope and ignored critical shot seven police witnesses. But Republicans moved forward officers in South with plans for a key procedural vote on Carolina, killing Friday and a final vote on Saturday on one, in a standoff confirming the conservative federal appeals so dangerous that judge chosen by Trump for a lifetime job on the police had to the nation's top court. Activists outside the Supreme Court to hold a vigil in opposition to top court nominee use a bullet-proof contd on Page 20 Brett Kavanaugh (inset) in Washington, October 4 vehicle to rescue the wounded, authorities said. contd on Page 20 India, Russia set to sign three major deals, ignoring U.S. threats Chanda Kochhar quits ICICI Bank; NEW DELHI (TIP): Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Delhi on Thursday, October 4, for the annual India-Russia summit Sandeep Bakhshi to be new MD which could see the signing of military deals totaling close to $10 ICICI Bank says probe to billion; a 24-hour visit that could have lasting implications for the India-U.S. relationship as well. continue On Friday, India and Russia are expected to conclude three major NEW DELHI (TIP): Facing military deals: for five S-400 missile systems estimated to cost about inquiry over charges of nepotism ?39,000 crore (more than $5 billion), four stealth frigates and a deal for and conflict of interest, ICICI Ak-103 assault rifles to be manufactured in India. The U.S. has Chanda Kochar ICICI Bank Managing Director and warned that the deals could attract sanctions under the Countering Bank Managing Director CEO Chanda Kochhar today, America's Adversaries contd on Page 20 and CEO, facing charges October 4, quit the bank, six of nepotism and conflict months before her current Russian President Vladimir Putin being received at IGI Airport by of interest, quit the tenure was to end. India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, October 4. Photo /Courtesy PTI bank, October 4 contd on Page 20 One dead, two arrested after shooting Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North behind Fort Worth shopping center Texas celebrates Gandhi's 149th birthday FORTWORTH, TX (TIP): Fort Worth police IRVING, TX (TIP): On Mahatma Gandhi arrested two shooting October 1, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial of North Texas suspects after they ran and Memorial of North Texas celebrates Mahatma attempted to hide inside (MGMNT) celebrated Gandhi's Gandhi's 149th birthday Hulen Mall. 149th birthday at the Mahatma Photo / Courtesy: MGMNT The shooting happened Gandhi Memorial Plaza in behind a shopping center at Irving, Texas, during which Hulen Street and South many participated in the Drive, but the two were "Gandhi Peace Walk," wearing captured inside of the mall midday Thursday,October 4, after witnesses saw white t-shirts and caps. them and called police. According to a press release, The two men were found in the bathroom of a clothing store near the food Wipro CEO Abidali court and were trying to disguise themselves by changing clothes, police Neemuchwala along with his said. The men didn't resist and were arrested. One of them had a handgun. wife Hassena, were the Guests of Police say the person the suspects shot at died at the hospital. Witnesses Honor at the celebration while saw him stumble and collapse near the intersection of Hulen and South. Irving City Council Member People who tried to help him at the scene saw at least one gunshot wound Allen Meagher and Texas State on his neck. "He had been shot in the neck and bleeding from his neck so bad Representative Matt Rinaldi it covered his whole abdomen," said witness Chris Lawson. "Plain white t- were Special Guests. shirt covered in blood, everybody ran over to help him." Police are While MGMNT Secretary Rao investigating witness reports that the victim may have been shot twice. Kalvala welcomed the gathering, Crime scene investigators could be seen Thursday afternoon looking over MGMNT Treasurer B.N MGMNT Co-Chair Kamal valuable cause, which is why we a car not far from where the victim was found. Detectives are examining introduced all of the board Kaushal said that Gandhi's deeds are still celebrating him today. how the car is connected to the shooting. The names of the two people members of IANT, IAFC, will last for generations to come Read full story on arrested have not been released. (Source: FOX 4) MGMNT and the guests. as he sacrificed his life for a www.theindianpanorama.news THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018 INDIAN ABROAD 3 Indian-American Rita Baranwal to Indian American named IMF Economic head US nuclear energy division WASHINGTON (TIP): Counselor and Director of Research US President Donald Trump has nominated CAMBRIDGE, MA (TIP): Indian University of Delhi, and a master's from prominent Indian- American Gita Gopinath has been the Delhi School of Economics. She came American nuclear expert named by The International Monetary to the United States to enroll for a Rita Baranwal to head the Fund as its Economic Counselor and master's at the University of nuclear energy division at Director of Research Department. Washington. In 2001, she earned her PhD the department of energy. "Gita is one of the world's outstanding in economics from Princeton University If approved by the economists, with impeccable academic in the fields of international Senate, Baranwal will be an credentials, a proven track record of macroeconomics and trade. Her advisers assistant secretary of intellectual leadership, and extensive included former Fed chief Ben energy, responsible for President Trump has international experience," IMF Bernanke, Harvard economist Ken nuclear technology nominated Indian- Managing Director Christine Lagarde Rogoff, and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, research and the American Rita Baranwal to said in a statement on Monday, October now a professor at UC Berkeley. development and head US nuclear energy 1. "All this makes her exceptionally well- After her PhD, Gopinath worked as an management of the division placed to lead our Research Department Gita Gopinath, the John Zwaanstra assistant professor at the University of department's nuclear at this important juncture. I am Professor of International Studies and of Chicago for four years before joining technology infrastructure, the White House said in a delighted to name such a talented figure Economics at Harvard University has been Harvard in 2005 in the same position. statement. Baranwal currently serves as the Director of as our Chief Economist." named Economic Counselor and Director Five years later, she would become a the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear Gopinath, the John Zwaanstra of Research Department of IMF tenured professor. Currently, she is one (GAIN) initiative. Professor of International Studies and of of the only three women to have tenure Previously, she served as Director of Technology Economics at Harvard University, will School, served as the IMF Economic at the economics department at Harvard. Development & Application at Westinghouse and was a succeed the retiring Maurice Obstfeld. Counselor and Director of Research She is also the first India-born woman to manager in Materials Technology at Bechtel Bettis, where A specialist in international from 2003 to 2006. get tenure at the department. she led research and development in nuclear fuel macroeconomics and finance, she Gopinath, who grew up in Mysore, Gopinath, now a US citizen, is married materials for US naval reactors. Baranwal earned her BA becomes the second Indian American to Karnataka, currently also serves as an to Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal, who heads the in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and PhD hold the position. Raghuram Rajan, a adviser to the Chief Minister of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab from the University of Michigan. Last week, Trump had former Chief Economic Adviser to Indian state of Kerala. at the Massachusetts Institute of signed into law the Nuclear Energy Innovation India's Finance Ministry and a professor She did her undergraduate degree in Technology. They have a 14-year-old son, Capabilities Act which will speed up the development of at the University of Chicago Booth economics from Lady Shri Ram College, Rohil. advanced reactors in the United States. The law eliminates some of the financial and technological barriers standing in the way of nuclear innovation. In a Indian- Origin Indra Nooyi Steps Down as recent presentation, Baranwal said that US nuclear industry is equipped to lead the world in deployment of innovative nuclear technologies to supply urgently PepsiCo CEO; Says "Lots Still Left in Me" needed abundant clean energy both domestically and globally.