Nassau County, NY: Nassau County Executive Laura Curran highlighted her continued commitment to mental health resources for residents in her proposed 2021 budget. The County’s financial strategy allows for: two additional psychiatric social workers at the Department Human Services to expand the Nassau County Mobile Crisis Team, which aids the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) on 911...
New York, NY: Under an expanded Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expedited removal policy, any individual anywhere in the country can be deported in as quickly as a day and with no due process. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be able to utilize the policy once they complete a mandatory training course. Originally announced...
New York: Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay, India’s former Consul General in New York has been appointed chair of the Indian’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CISR) new Inter-ministerial Working Group ‘Pravasi Bharatiya Academic and Scientific Sampark or PRABHASS. Dnyaneshwar Mulay, PhD., is a member of National Human Rights Commission, India and a former career diplomat. The new body, PRABHASS would work...
New Delhi: Nearly three-quarters of Indian Americans plan to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the US election next month, believing the country is headed in the wrong direction under President Donald Trump, according to a survey on Wednesday. Indian Americans, the second largest immigrant group in the United States, make up less than...
New York: U.S. officials are looking to open travel between New York City and London with shortened traveler quarantine periods as soon as the holidays, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Sources familiar with the matter told the outlet that the growing availability of COVID-19 testing has prompted officials in the Transportation...
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Oct 9 that COVID-19 rapid result testing will be made available to every county in New York State. The New York State Department of Health will deploy an initial 400,000 rapid result test kits free of charge to local health departments, hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers to...
New York: The Association of Indians in America (AIA)-NY chapter held its 33rd Diwali Diya lighting ceremony on a luxury boat on Hudson River in front of South Street Seaport in Manhattan on October 4. This welcomed the upcoming festive season in New York: Navratri and Dussehra are later this month, to be followed by the...
New York: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Oct 7 announced the groundbreaking of the new $8.4 million intermodal ground transportation facility at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Islip, Suffolk County. The commuter-focused facility, which is integral to the airport's continued modernization, is supported by an $800,000 grant from the New York State Department of Transportation...
New York: On Sept 24, Shivender Sofat took charge as president of the newly launched Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) Manhattan chapter in a virtual ceremony, a live webcast attended by several community business leaders from around the New York region. Consul General of India in New York, Randhir Kumar Jaiswal, inaugurated the new Chapter. The program,...
