More money, programs for violence prevention efforts New York: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation holding gun manufacturers accountable for the harm their products cause and closing a loophole that allowed people with outstanding warrants for their arrest to purchase guns. "Of all the challenges we face every day in New York, few are as difficult to bear...
New York: Jaswant Mody died in a car accident on July 4. A mechanical engineer retired from the City of New York, he was involved with many community organizations including FIA (he served as its Vice President) and GOPIO. “With a heavy heart, we wanted to share with you the news of our dear husband and...
New York: International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath and NASA scientist Kamlesh Lulla are among the 34 immigrants honored by a prestigious American foundation "who have enriched and strengthened" the US society and democracy through their contributions and actions. Gopinath and Lulla are among the '2021 Great Immigrants'' honorees named by the Carnegie Corporation of...
New York: Indian economist Kaushik Basu has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award for Economics. The award was conferred on him by Professor Dr Hans-Bernd Schäfer of Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. A former chief economist of the World Bank, Basu is currently a professor of Economics at Cornell University. He also served as the Government of India's chief...
New York: A coalition of 75 American Hindu temples and spiritual organizations (including 17 from New Jersey) from across 20 states sent a letter to Rutgers University July 1st expressing anguish and concerns regarding Professor Audrey Truschke’s actions and statements. The letter, coordinated by the Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA), included some of the largest temples...
New York: Prominent community member of the tristate area Jaswant Mody died in a tragic car accident on July 4. Retired from the City of New York, he was involved with many community organizations including FIA and GOPIO. Mr Dharmatma Saran, chair of India Festival Committee that holds beauty pageants, first posted about the tragedy...
New York: Shekhar Mehta, eminent Rotarian and Chairman of real estate Skyline Group in India, has begun July 1 his one-year term (2021-22) as Rotary International’s 111th President leading 1.2 million Rotarians globally. In the last one year, the Kolkata born Mehta has been actively involved in strengthening Rotary’s response to Covid-19 in India. Under his guidance,...
The New York City Board of Elections released new numbers from the Democratic primary on Wednesday after it rescinded the results a day before because of a confounding tabulation error. "Yesterday's ranked-choice voting reporting error was unacceptable and we apologize to the voters and to the campaigns for the confusion," the board said in a...
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute study had ranked the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim region as the area with the country's worst traffic since 1982. But the institute's 2021 Urban Mobility Report showed the New York-Newark region now has the worst traffic in the nation. The rankings are based on the total amount of hours drivers were delayed. The...
