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AAPI, AAHOA And AASCA Join Hands At AACSA Convention

Meeting in the backdrop of the current financial crisis, which has affected their business by at least 20 percent, Asian American convenience store owners met in Tampa, Florida November 22 to have a brain storming session to evolve a joint strategy on their most pressing problem of the day.

IndiaFest Tampa Attracts Thousands

The Asian Indian Community of Tampa Bay Florida celebrated its 21st Annual India festival on November 8, 2008, at the USF Sundome in Tampa, Florida. The event started at 1:30pm and continued until mid night. This year more than 10,000 people from Florida, neighboring states and places as far as New York and Boston attended the event. IndiaFest-Tampa has become one of the most popular South Asian Event in the State of Florida, with visitors and vendors from all over Florida and neighboring states get together to …

Florida Celebrates 62nd India Independence Day

Nearly a thousand people of Indian American origin of Tampa Bay under the umbrella organization called FIA (Federation of Indian Associations-Tampa Bay) along with their local friends, families, professionals, businesses and entrepreneurs gathered at the India Cultural Center in celebration of the 62nd India Independence Day at ICC (India Cultural Center), pride and glory of their motherland.

They began with a marching band, parading with banners of 36 different associations of Indian Americans of Greater Tampa Bay depicting their solid unity in celebration of “Indianness”, followed by flag …