NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem CEO Georges H. Leconte, MPA, FAB, RRT allowed cameras to follow him as he prepped and underwent a routine colonoscopy to help encourage more New Yorkers ages 45 to 75 to get screened for preventable cancer and to de-stigmatize the potentially life-saving procedure. Colorectal cancer, also known as colon cancer,...
Indian-Americans have welcomed Eric Garcetti's confirmation as the US ambassador to India and are hopeful that his close relationship with President Joe Biden will serve the crucial bilateral ties quite well. The US Senate voted 52-42 to confirm the former Los Angeles mayor's nomination on Wednesday after an unprecedented delay of more than two years. In...
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has nominated Indian-American Seema Shrivastava-Patel to be the next chair of the Board of Health and Environmental Control. If confirmed, Shrivastava-Patel -- who has served on the Board since 2018 and has been its Vice-Chair since 2021 -- will become the first person of color and the second woman to...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday received glowing praise from the Nobel Prize Committee's deputy leader Asle Toje. “Narendra Modi is the most trusted leader in the world who can establish peace between the countries at conflict,” he said. Asle Toje, a foreign policy scholar and member of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, is...
Kyiv, Ukraine: Russia and the United States ratcheted up their confrontational rhetoric Wednesday over a U.S. surveillance drone that encountered Russian warplanes and crashed near Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin has illegally annexed. At the same time, the two countries’ defense chiefs opened a dialogue about the incident. The Pentagon on Thursday released video of...
Washington: Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti won confirmation Wednesday from a divided Senate as the nation’s next ambassador to India, more than a year and a half after he was first nominated by President Joe Biden and after weathering doubts about his truthfulness in a sexual harassment scandal involving a City Hall adviser. The 52-42 vote...
Manhasset, New York: Community members in New York are mourning the loss of Dr. Pushpa Shah, wife of Dr. Shashi Shah. She passed away on March 13 in Manhasset. Her last rites will be performed at Moloney’s Lake Funeral House and Cremation Center at Lake RonkonKoma, NY on Friday, March 17. Dr. Shah was a...
New York: The new team at Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) sworn-in on March 4 at a virtual ceremony with Lal Motwani as its president. Motwani has been a Founder Life member of GOPIO since its inception in 1989. He was serving as the International Coordinator-at-Large and later as Executive Trustee of...
Corona, CA.: Punjabi actor Aman Dhaliwal, who has worked in the Bollywood film 'Jodhaa Akbar' starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai, has been attacked in a gym. The incident took place in the morning at Planet Fitness gym located at 3685 Grand Oaks. Accused was later handed over to the local police. A video doing the rounds...
