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...
NYC Health + Hospitals announced that six of its facilities have been certified by Planetree International for excellence in person-centered care. Planetree International works with organizations across the globe to enhance the staff, patient and family experience in healthcare settings. Over three years, these six sites met several criteria to provide high-quality care, improve clinical outcomes, enhance patient experience,...
Britain raises human rights concerns with China North Korea says it simulated nuclear attacks on South Korea India and Malaysia protest China’s land claim in a newly published Jakarta, Indonesia: Soldiers from the U.S., Indonesia and five other nations began annual training exercises Thursday on Indonesia’s main island of Java while China’s increasing aggression is raising concern. American...
Johannesburg: A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown five-story building in Johannesburg that was occupied by homeless people and squatters, killing at least 73 people early Thursday, emergency services in South Africa’s biggest city said. Some of the people living in a maze of shacks and other makeshift structures inside the building threw themselves out...
Washington: Months after United States’s defense giant GE Aeronautics signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the U.S. Congress has given clearance to the deal for manufacturing F-414 jet engines in India for HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Mark 2. The MoU was signed during the two-day state visit of the Prime Minister...
New York: Vivek Ramaswamy is as comfortable talking about Bible stories as he is sharing the message of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most sacred Hindu texts. The 37-year-old biotech entrepreneur turned Republican presidential candidate has been steadily garnering support in a party dominated by conservative Christians. In many polls, he’s in third place behind former...
New York: 42 year old Parag Bhavsar from Newark has pleaded guilty to the charges of defrauding various telephone providers and insurance companies of millions of dollars by using stolen or fake identities to submit fraudulent claims for replacement cellular devices and then reselling those devices outside the country. Attorney Philip R Sellinger said Parag...
