London: Director, KIMS-Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases and Founder CEO of Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation, Dr. P. Raghu Ram, has become one of the youngest surgeons of Indian origin to be conferred with Officer of the Most Excellent Order of British Empire (OBE). The OBE award to Dr. Raghu Ram was bestowed by Prince Charles,...
Advisers are unwilling to speak to Putin with candor Washington DC: U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said there’s “no clear evidence” that Vladimir Putin is scaling back military operations around Kyiv and suggested that the Russian president may have ordered some of his advisers fired or placed under house arrest. U.S. intelligence officials have determined...
New York: United Nations on Wednesday named three human rights experts who will probe possible war crimes in Ukraine. Russia faces accusations of indiscriminate bombardment of civilians in Ukraine. The independent panel will be led by Erik Mose of Norway and it will investigate alleged human rights abuses and also violations of international humanitarian law "in...
Berlin: Germany and Austria activated early warning plans Wednesday amid concerns that Moscow could cut natural gas deliveries, while Poland announced steps to end all Russian oil imports by year’s end, in fresh signs of how Russia’s war in Ukraine is affecting Europe’s energy security. The German government said it was establishing a crisis team...
Washington DC: President Biden’s declaration that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” threatened to push deeply strained U.S.-Russia relations closer to collapse, former officials and analysts said, with potentially serious implications for Washington’s ability to help steer the war in Ukraine to an end and avoid a wider conflict. However, President Joe Biden...
Biden had announced $1 billion in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine last week Washington DC: President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a call on Wednesday that the United States plans to provide Ukraine with an additional $500 million in “direct budgetary aid,” according to a White House readout of the leaders’ conversation. The Biden...
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced agreements with two home health agencies for cheating employees out of wages and submitting false Medicaid claims. Under the terms of the agreements, All American Homecare Agency, Inc. (All American) repaid $4 million and Crown of Life Care NY LLC (Crown) will return $1.4 million to the...
Governor Kathy Hochul announced the launch of applications for two tourism grant programs designed to support and revitalize New York State's tourism and hospitality industry. The $100 million Tourism Return-to-Work grant program and the $25 million Meet in New York grant program were first announced in November as part of the governor's nation-leading "Bring Back Tourism, Bring Back Jobs" initiative. Both programs will now...
A recent research of media reporting during the cold war has concluded that the American media has by and large followed the official US Government policy when it comes to India. Washington, DC: With India being portrayed negatively in the mainstream American press during the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, mainly because New Delhi has refused to toe...
