Washington DC : President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris held a brief, somber ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial at dusk on Tuesday to remember the more than 400,000 Americans who have died during the Covid pandemic. national loss. “To heal we must remember,” Biden said before 400 lights were illuminated along the perimeter...
Amidst all the security challenges and logistical uncertainties, a section of the Indian American community is also wondering if Kamala Harris will bring the traditional Indian sari to formal events now on. The question has been posed to Harris earlier -- during her own presidential campaign in 2019. At an event hosted by Asian American group,...
By Dev B. Viswanath, Esq. With the year 2021 under way, employers are all gearing up and organizing candidates for H1B filings for Fiscal Year 2022, which will begin October 1, 2021. The filings for H1Bs will start around April this year and the lottery system will be based on cases selected through pre-registration, similar...
Joe Biden has named Indian-American health policy expert Vidur Sharma as testing advisor in his COVID-19 Response Team, as the US President-elect laid out his ambitious goal to intensify vaccinations across the country to tackle the spread of the deadly pandemic. The announcement of Sharma's appointment as Policy Advisor for Testing was made by Biden...
Seema Verma, one of the highest-ranking Indian Americans in the outgoing Trump administration, has resigned from her top healthcare position, days ahead of Joe Biden's swearing in as the next president of the United States. Verma, 50, tendered her resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday as Administrator of Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services,...
To welcome President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris on inauguration day (January 20), Indian Americans are making thousands of kolam tiles at the US Capitol to help heal the divide. "Some beauty after the chaos: in front of the U.S. Capitol Thursday, thousands of kolam tiles are being made to welcome @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris later this month," tweeted IndiasporaForum. Earlier, Trump supporters...
Less than 100 hours ahead of his historic inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden has either nominated or named at least 20 Indian Americans, including 13 women, to key positions in his administration, a new record in itself for this small ethnic community that constitutes one percent of the country's population. As many as 17 of...
The Trump administration has announced a final rule that will significantly raise the minimum wages the employers in the US must pay to foreign workers on visa programs like the H-1B as part of the efforts to protect American workers from being undercut by cheaper labor from abroad. Days before the exit of the...
Bhavesh V Patel, an Indian-American top executive of a multinational chemical company, has been appointed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to its Houston branch’s board of directors. Patel, 53, is the chief executive officer and chairman of the management board of LyondellBasell Industries, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in...
