New York: Tirlok Malik, Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Happy Life Yoga speaker shared a highly interactive and informative session with the Nurses, Doctors, Administrators & staff at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Hospital. On National Nurses Week, 2023, the whole team expressed their experience as an “absolute happy time with the incredible Happy Life Yoga creator...
New York: The historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan shuttered three years ago, but it will soon be bustling again — reopening to accommodate an anticipated influx of asylum seekers just as other New York City hotels are being converted to emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams announced last Saturday that the city will use the...
May 11 marked the end of the federal public health emergency declaration for COVID-19, which reflects a milestone in the city’s historic pandemic response. While there will be changes to how New Yorkers access some services, the New York City’s Health Department and NYC Health + Hospitals will continue to ensure New Yorkers have access...
NYC Health + Hospitals’ Arts in Medicine program and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute on May 12, 2023 announced a new video featuring a family and musicians who wrote a lullaby together as part of the Lullaby Project. The video features new parents Bignesh and Deepanjali Shrestha, recent immigrants from Nepal whose daughter Ariana was born at...
Long Island, New York: Indian American community members came together to support Ekal Vidyalaya at Antun’s, Long Island on May 7. Ekal is dedicated to facilitating the process of empowering rural & tribal communities based on the concept of social, economic and gender equality. Acclaimed TV presenter and singer Gita Setia hosted the evening which...
Publishers and editors reveal how they have been coping and the business strategies they have adopted. By Parveen Chopra Founder, ALotusInTheMud.com Founding Editor, The South Asian Times In 2020, India Abroad, known as the gold standard in ethnic newspapers in America, closed operations after 50 years in circulation. In 2022 New India Abroad was started by a different team. That...
Brooklyn, NY: NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health on May 7, 2023, announced that the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital is officially open for care. More than 100 doctors, nurses, transport staff and hospital administrators worked overnight to move over 170 patients from the old NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island hospital building to the...
New York: U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation’s No. 4 cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week. COVID-19 deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle fatalities and shootings. In 2020 and 2021, only heart disease and cancer...
On May 2, 2023, NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health officially cut the ribbon at its new Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital. Clara Spera, granddaughter of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, joined Svetlana Lipyanskaya, CEO of NYC Health + Hospital/South Brooklyn Health, elected officials, community leaders and hospital staff to celebrate the opening of New York...
