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Animal study reveals potential brain-health benefits of a walnut-enriched diet  Dr. Abha Chauhan, PhD A new animal study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease indicates that a diet including walnuts may have a beneficial effect in reducing the risk, delaying the onset, slowing the progression of, or preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Research led by Abha Chauhan, PhD, head of the …

                                                                                                                     Harjap Singh Aujla                  Sarbpreet Singh, a technocrat of Boston in the USA is a man with a mission. Being fond of music, he has helped in preservation and worldwide propagation of the best in the Sikh sacred music rendered by the great masters of the yore. He always longs to do …

Harjap Singh Aujla                                  Hitherto the females were supposed to perform mostly glamorous and delicate roles sitting in the studios of Punjabi television companies in America. They were doing light intellectual desk jobs or sitting in front of video cameras hosting talk shows or were busy canning material for pre-recorded shows. Sherry Dutta, by her sheer determination and grit has …

A special Report from Harjap Singh Aujla Newyork   India has two extremely difficult neighbors. In sixty seven year history since independence, we have had several violent disputes with Pakistan. But to our North the People’s Republic of China is a far more difficult neighbor to deal with. We had at least three full blown wars with Pakistan in 1947-48, 1965 …

Special Report by Harjap Singh Aujla Since March of 2014, the Consulate General of India located at 3 East 64th Street near 5th Avenue of New York City has undertaken a monthly initiative of holding lectures on the subjects concerning Indo-US relations. The guest key-note speaker on August 22, 2014 was legendry tennis player Leander Paes, who delivered a lively …

Harjap Singh Aujla  Amritsar produced Bhai Santa Singh Ji  and Thumri singer Indu Bala in 1904. In later years it produced Shamshad Begum in 1919 and Mohammed Rafi in 1924. A few years later Amritsar gave birth to a great Ghazal singer Farida Khanum.  The whole of Punjab must be genuinely proud of its great son Mohammad Rafi, who was …

Harjap Singh Aujla  If during the first half of the nineteenth century, Emperor Ranjit Singh’s bold and brave General Sham Singh Atariwala was conquering fortress after fortress in the hinterland of Punjab to extend the boundaries of the Sikh Empire, his fourth generation daughter in law Kuldip Kaur was making it big in the Bombay filmdom in the middle decades …

Special Report by Harjap Singh Aujla  The New India House located at 3 East, 64th Street, houses the Consulate General of India Office in New York City. Since March of 2014, this apex diplomatic office of the Government of India has been holding monthly lectures on India and the Indo-US relations. On Friday the July 18th 2014, the fifth monthly …

Harjap Singh Aujla Some projects keep facing inordinate and agonizing delays in execution and for no reason. The prestigious project of All India Radio in Amritsar is one such Government of India Prasar Bharti broadcasting venture, which, even after seven years of its execution, is not yet prepared for its fruition. During the pre-independence days, Lahore and Amritsar, the two …

Harjap Singh Aujla  In addition to being the home to a world famous shrine the holy Golden Temple, Amritsar is considered by many as the food capital of India. It has so much variety of food that a gourmet buff needs to spend days in this city to savor food of all varieties. There are some eatries in the old …