6 US Indians receive Ellis Island Medal of Honour

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and author Fareed Zakaria were among six Indian Americans to be awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honour — the highest civilian award for immigrants in the US — for 2017. The award, founded by national ethnic coalition of organisations, is given to those whose deeds“are cause for celebration”. The other recipients are Dinesh Paliwal, Annapoorna S Kini, Yashvant Patel and Mohan H Patel.