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Flight School Goes Out of Business, Leaving Indian Students Grounded
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 By LISA TSERING
India-West Staff Reporter
ATWATER, Calif. — A smoggy haze hangs oppressively over this tiny central California town, and heat waves shimmer in the 90-degree air on the runway of Castle Airport.
This is where more than 100 students — mostly young men and women in their early 20s, nearly all from India — found themselves grounded last week when their aviation school closed without warning and they were evicted from its student housing.
Each of the students had paid at least $40,000 in advance. |
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SF Gives Warm ‘Arabian Welcome’ to Emirates Airlines
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 By LISA TSERING
India-West Staff Reporter
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Travelers can taste the exotic Arabian delights of Emirates service on their journeys from California to India, now that the airline has announced that San Francisco and Los Angeles have been added to its network. |
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Harman Baweja: An Actor with the Soul of a Filmmaker
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 By R.M.VIJAYAKAR
Special to India-West
MUMBAI — He’s profusely apologetic because his PR people have delayed our chat, since the first question I ask Harman Baweja is whether he has butterflies in his stomach and other associated pre-debut tensions. |
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Hindus Favor Democrats, Most Tolerant of Other Religions
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By RICHARD SPRINGER
India-West Staff Reporter
Hindus in the U.S. are far more likely to become Democrats than Republicans and they are the most tolerant of other religious beliefs, according to the second part of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life’s study of religions in America.
The first part of the report (I-W, March 7, 2008) dealt with the demographics of the country’s religions. |
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