Pakistani embassy in Washington picketed over terrorism threats

WASHINGTON (Diya TV)  — A group of Kashmiri Americans along with former American military personnel and Indian American Congressional candidates protested outside of the Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC to denounce what they say is that nations support of terror. With Kashmir in the headlines daily, the group gathered to spread awareness of the $4 billion the U.S. spends in aid to Pakistan, despite the fact 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden was in hiding there.

House Democrats officially announced two articles of impeachment against President Trump, with one charge alleging abuse of power and another related to obstruction of Congress. A vote in the Judiciary Committee is possible within days with a full House vote by Christmas. In response, President Trump said the proceedings were baseless and partisan and expects to be fully exonerated by the Senate.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science or AAAS announced of the 443 leading scientists in various fields named an AAAS Fellow, 21 of them are of Indian descent. The naming of AAAS Fellows began in 1874, and includes icons like Thomas Edison.

The following are 2019 AAAS Fellows of Indian descent:

SECTION ON BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

  Kanwarpal Singh Dhugga, International Center for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) (Mexico)

  Justin P. Kumar, Indiana University

  Harmit Singh Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

  Kirankumar S. Mysore, Noble Research Institute, LLC

  Aleem Siddiqui, University of California, San Diego

 

SECTION ON CHEMISTRY

  Krishnan Raghavachari, Indiana University

 

SECTION ON ENGINEERING

  Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India)

  Rajeevan Amirtharajah, University of California, Davis

  Ravi Bellamkonda, Duke University

  Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University

  Guru Madhavan, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

  Vinothan N. Manoharan, Harvard University

  Gopal R. Rao, Materials Research Society (MRS)

  Asok Ray, Pennsylvania State University

 

SECTION ON INFORMATION, COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION

  Noshir S. Contractor, Northwestern University

  Sampath Kannan, University of Pennsylvania

 

SECTION ON MATHEMATICS

  Kavita Ramanan, Brown University

 

SECTION ON MEDICAL SCIENCES

  Subbarao Bondada, University of Kentucky

 

SECTION ON NEUROSCIENCE

  Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science (India)

  Piali Sengupta, Brandeis University

 

SECTION ON STATISTICS

  Nandini Kannan, Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF)

 

Ravi Kapur contributed to this report.