Tharman Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist has registered a landslide victory in Singapore's presidential election. He won over 70 per cent of votes in the country's first contested presidential polls since 2011. The 66-year-old former senior minister bagged 70.4 per cent (1,746,427 votes) of the 2.48 million votes cast, while his Chinese-origin rivals Ng Kok Song...
Science of Spirituality (SOS), a worldwide spiritual organization dedicated to transforming lives through meditation, proudly exhibited at the recent World Parliament of Religions Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Under the leadership of Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, SOS spreads the message of inner peace, spiritual awakening and personal transformation through the practice of meditation. The theme of this year’s conference...
South Brunswick, NJ: Maadhavan Gopikrishnan, a South Brunswick High School sophomore, is one of approximately 20 students selected from across the United States to participate in the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Abroad program. The 15-year-old will receive the competitive merit-based scholarship funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study in Poland for the 2023 -...
Rotary Club of Hicksville South (RCHS) held its annual back-to-school “Backpack Giveaway Project” at the Levittown Hall, in Hicksville, NY on August 31, 2023. The organization distributed about 400 backpack bags filled with school supplies to local students who were in need. Representatives from 11 different organizations, including churches, public schools, and NGOs attended the...
By Violet W Even if the school doesn’t require a personal statement, you can often still submit it. The only time you should not send in the essay is if the school specifically states that they do not want you to submit it. Submitting the essay when they asked you not to show that you...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has launched a new online form for individuals, attorneys, and accredited representatives to request an in-person appointment at their local field office without having to call the USCIS Contact Center. This online appointment request form allows individuals or legal representatives to request an in-person appointment at a field office only, for ADIT...
Washington: The US Consulate General in Mumbai has eliminated the visa backlog that was caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Promising news for visa applicants, the Consulate announced that immigrant visa interview appointments can now be scheduled within the standard time frame, an official press release stated. It said that following the pandemic, appointment wait times...
The employment green-card backlog for EB-2 and EB-3 categories for 1,070,000 Indians will take 134 years to process. Nearly 134,000 children will age out before a green card can be obtained, thus carrying a high risk of family separation. Every year, the US sets aside 140,000 green cards for employment-based applicants, with a seven per cent...
Indian-American computer scientist Swati Varshney could well become the first woman to jump from the Earth's stratosphere. Varshney is one of the three explorers on the Hera Rising project. The project aims to send a woman high into the stratosphere for the first time. By 2025, the Hera Rising initiative has set forth its objective to propel a...
