By Lindsey Conger More than 120 US testing states for the March 14 SAT were canceled. Since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, more and more countries have been affected. Now recognized as a pandemic by WHO, as of March 13, there are more than 132,000 confirmed cases around the globe. The disease has had some...
By Suchitra Srinivas The workforce that India has been sending in recent years to the US is well exposed to economic luxury. This has made their thinking patterns and lifestyle choices distinctly different from the conservative approaches of the people who settled much earlier. Immigrating to a new country comes with its own difficulties. Among the...
New York: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that the state would open its first drive-through coronavirus testing facility in New Rochelle — the epicenter of the outbreak in the state. The facility will open Friday and is by appointment only, Cuomo said, adding that New Rochelle residents who are already quarantined will be tested first,...
state of emergency in city New York: Mayor de Blasio declared a state of emergency, and Gov. Cuomo banned public events of more than 500 people Thursday as the potentially-deadly coronavirus picked up steam, nearly doubling the number of infected New Yorkers in just a single day, reports NY Daily News. The ban starting Friday applies...
Special to The South Asian Times New York: City Mayor Bill de Blasio has praised the news media, particularly the ethnic press, for making residents of the city aware of the novel coronavirus so that they could take more useful precautionary measures. “People all over New York City are depending on all of you. In many...
In an unprecedented move, President Donald Trump has announced he is shutting down travel from Europe to the US as the coronavirus grew into a pandemic that he said called for an "unprecedented response". Announcing on Wednesday the 30-day ban on travel he said he would take action to offer financial assistance to those affected...
IRS would likely extend the April 15 tax filing deadline. The Trump administration is acting independently to ease the economic pain wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, as House Democrats prepare their own bill with initial steps like providing paid sick leave and free medical testing while bipartisan talks take place behind the scenes on a...
Op-Ed by Shivaji Sengupta It all started eleven days ago with Joe Biden's thumping win over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. The African Americans supported him overwhelmingly, this man who was Barack Obama's Vice President for eight years. The following week, except for California, it was a landslide for Biden. He won ten states to...
By SATimes Team New York: The Committee to Protect Journalists, a city-based nonprofit for safeguarding the rights of scribes across the world, has castigated the Indian government’s decision to suspend the broadcast of two Malayalam TV channels and noted that such moves would damage freedom of the press in a country known for its vibrant...
