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Reshma Saujani bags Power of Radiance Award


Clé de Peau Beauté, the esteemed luxury skincare and makeup brand, has announced the recipient of the Power of Radiance Awards 2024, Reshma Saujani, hailing from New York. These awards honor women who are actively championing girls' education in their communities, particularly in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Saujani has demonstrated unwavering...

Indian woman with “bipolar disorder” goes missing in NYC

Post Date: March 11, 2024

A 25-year-old Indian woman has gone missing in New York City and the police are seeking information from the public to help locate her. Ferin Khoja was last seen leaving her residence in Queens on March 1 at around 11 pm. She was last seen wearing an olive green jacket, green sweater and blue jeans, according...

USCIS completes an unprecedented 10 million immigration cases in 2023


Washington: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrate the agency’s progress in meeting its strategic priorities. The USCIS workforce has worked tirelessly over the past year to uphold America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility by reducing backlogs, improving customer experience, addressing...

USCIS reaches H-2B cap for second half of FY 2024


U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to meet the H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2024 and is announcing the filing dates for supplemental H-2B visas for the reminder of FY 2024 made available under the FY 2024 H-2B supplemental visa temporary final rule. H-2B Cap for Second...

USCIS’s updated forms take effect on April 1 with no grace period


Washington: With the new fee rule that goes into effect April 1, 2024, you must use the new 04/01/24 editions of the following forms: Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker; Form I-129 CW, Petition for a CNMI-Only Nonimmigrant Transitional Worker; Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers; Form I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan...

USIEF accepting applications for Fulbright-Nehru Fellowships for Indian citizens

Post Date: March 8, 2024

The Ministry of External Affairs released an official statement on Wednesday, announcing the commencement of the annual competition for Fulbright-Nehru and other Fulbright fellowships for Indian citizens by the United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF). As part of this announcement, USIEF has initiated the process of accepting applications from Indian citizens for the academic year...

New York’s Times Square lit up for Mahashivratri


New York’s Times Square was lit up on Monday night with chants of ‘Shiva’ and ‘Shambhoo’ echoing in the air. Founder of Isha Foundation - Sadhguru - shared the video of the fervour in Times Square on X, formerly known as Twitter. In the video, Indians along with people from around the world can be...

VP Harris hosts Israeli war Cabinet member


Washington: Vice President Kamala Harris last Monday met with a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Biden administration intensifies its efforts to push more humanitarian aid into war-battered Gaza. White House officials said Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, requested...

Anil Menon graduates as Nasa astronaut

Post Date: March 8, 2024

Washington: Dr. Anil Menon, son of Indian and Ukrainian immigrants, has graduated as a Nasa astronaut after a two-year-long training with the American space agency. Anil Menon was selected by NASA to join the 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class and he reported for duty in January 2022. Menon was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch...