New York: Emma Hernandez is defiant even if she fears what may come in the latest stage of the nation’s fight over abortion: a widening prohibition to safe and legal ways to end unwanted pregnancies, including access to abortion pills. Competing rulings by two federal judges over the availability of the abortion drug mifepristone are sowing alarm...
Washington: The nation’s top health official has said that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion was “not America” and he did not rule out defying the judge’s order if necessary. “We want the courts to overturn this reckless decision,” Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s health secretary, told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We want,...
By Basab Dasgupta Baseball, hotdog, apple pie and Chevrolet are said to be the essence of Americana. In my desire to get assimilated into American society I have dabbled in all of them. I had a Chevrolet Vega during my university days which proved to be a low-cost reliable mode of transportation. Hotdog is often...
With the COVID-19 pandemic all but over, college students are once again considering study abroad opportunities. Studying abroad can provide unique cultural, personal and professional growth experiences. Premedical students who pursue health-related classes, volunteering and internships while abroad can learn about how medicine works in other countries. These experiences give them insights into other health care system...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify the types of venues USCIS may use for administrative naturalization ceremonies. This clarifying guidance is part of USCIS efforts to educate the public and those seeking to donate venue spaces, and to provide more transparency on how to partner with...
Nursing home, daycare center, or home health aide? We know senior care can be complicated and confusing. Here we profile some of the facilities in the New York metro area for readers to make better choices in times of need. by Parveen Chopra Founder, ALotusInThe Mud.com Founding Editor, The South Asian Times Hicksville, NY: In the fast-growing South...
A temple was vandalized in Canada and anti-India graffiti was painted on the temple premise in yet another incident of attacks on Hindu religious places in the country. This BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in the town of Windsor in Ontario province was the target of the latest vandalism in Canada, according to a report in...
Scores of Indian-Americans held a peaceful rally in California to register their protest against a Democratic senator for introducing a bill in the state's Senate seeking to explicitly ban caste-based discrimination. State Senator Aisha Wahab, the first Muslim and Afghan American elected to the state legislature, introduced the bill in the California Senate on March...
Condemning UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman's "discriminatory and xenophobic" remarks against Pakistani men, the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday warned of the serious repercussions of such comments, media reports said. The British minister has been accused of "peddling extremist far-right lies" about Pakistanis after she singled out British Pakistani men over concerns about grooming...
