‘Beti Padhao’ event held in New York
@hiindia /hiindianoone FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2016 1 BY A STAFF WRITER A EW YORK, NY -- On March 24, “Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation” and “Indian Consulate, New York” jointly celebrated the ‘International Women’s month’, focusing on Women’s Empowerment through education. The event also provided the first opportunity for newly appointed Consul interview General (CG), Riva Ganguly Das to interact with the diverse Indian community for vibrant E exchange of ideas. E Dr. Anila Midha, a prominent physician FR Ranjani Saigal, Dr. Urmilesh Arya, Dr. Sunita Saini, & Renee Mehrra who took the helm for the evening explained Ranjani Saigal, Executive Director of ‘Ek to the capacity gathering the main objective of Vidyalaya’, touched on the need to uphold th the event and introduced various participants. standards set by parents who precipitated h In her welcome address, Das provided an own academic success at IIT and MIT. overview of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao as a There was a resounding agreement th flagship initiative PrimeNo. Minister APRIL 8, 2016 | THE COMMUNITY FIRST 353 Narendra www.hiindiaLive.com 6 •ofIssue | Volume MIDWEST EDITION | EAST COAST EDITION when a woman is educated, she educat Modi, whereby a third of ‘Village Panchayats’ her entire family. The ensuing discussio had been decreed to have women in responsible highlighted the relevance of good health fo positions. women as a strategy towards empowerment. Cons. Gen. Riva Ganguli Das She expressed hope that the grass-root Vinod Jhunjhunwalla the President of Ek stressed the importance of educating men as organizations like Ekal, with presence in Foundation, USA and Prof Subash Midha, th much as women to create an environment 60,000-plus villages can play an important main Ekal coordinator for the event thanke in families where self-esteem of individuals role in it. the Indian Consulate, for their support was not compromised and women had equal Aroon Shivdasani, president of the Indo hosting this event. opportunity in all walks of life. American Arts Council, in her key-note address,
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BY A STAFF WRITER ASON, GA -- Dr. Sushil Jajodia, a professor at George Ma s o n Un i v e r s i t y, w a s recently selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2016 Technical Achievement Award. The Indian American educator was picked for the rare award “for outstanding contributions in network vulnerability analysis and cyber situation awareness, resulting in seminal papers, patents, and a commercial system.” Jajodia is the BDM International Professor and founding director of the Center for Secure Information Systems in the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
He is also the founding site directo the NSF I/UCRC Center for Configura Analytics and Automation at Mason. Jajodia’s research interests incl security, privacy, databases, and distribu systems. He has authored or co-autho seven books, edited 44 books and confere proceedings, and published more than technical papers in the refereed journals proceedings. He also holds Likely to be the biggest leak of insideconference information in patents. history, the Panama Papers expose someJajodia of thewasworld’s elected a Fellow of IEEE January He was recognized for the m most prominent people including over 5002013. Indians accepted papers at the 30th anniversary of IEEE Symposium on Security and Priva He received his Ph.D. from the Univer Dr. Suhil Jajodia of Oregon, Eugene.
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