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Why the Democratic Party's Approach to Immigration is the Right One
As a South Asian, I understand the frustration many of us feel when it comes to immigration. My family, like so many others, worked hard to come here legally. We navigated a complex system, waited years, and sacrificed a lot to make this country o...
What Has the Biden/ Harris Administration Achieved?
Very often, while engaging in a discussion with friends and family, the question comes up: But what has this administration actually done? How am I benefiting from this? I thought I’d share some data points Disclaimer: This is by no means an exha...
Let’s Talk About Immigration
Republican talking points about immigration often focus on issues like a porous southern border, immigrant crime, and Kamala Harris’s role in border policy. However, these claims don't hold up against the facts. The number of migrants crossing the...
ANNOUNCEMENT
Bharatiya Liberal Party (BLP) President, Dr. Munish Kumar Raizada, has announced to contest from New Delhi Constituency (AC-40) in the upcoming Delhi Assembly Election 2025. He will contest against the Former Delhi CM and AAP Convener Arvind Kejri...
Why Trump’s Lies Are Dangerous
Trust is what holds everything together in a democracy. When people don’t trust the government, or even basic facts, everything starts to fall apart. Think about the deep cynicism many of us have about politicians in India and other South Asian co...
How does Project 2025 affect us South Asians?
Project 2025, backed by conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, is gearing up to shape the next Republican administration—especially if Donald Trump makes a comeback. Trump’s Agenda 47 heavily borrows from this plan and the architec...
Opinion: Will we survive the age of information disorder?
Technology now threatens progress as misinformation distorts our ability to tell fact from fiction and right from wrong. Having weathered the COVID-19 storm, we are now on the cusp of another pandemic that is even more dangerous and insidious: a p...
ASIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS AND SPECIAL GUEST U.S. SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH CELEBRATE ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL GROWTH AT 2024 DNC
Elected officials shared model of success with representatives from across the nation CHICAGO – On the heels of milestone elections of Asian American candidates and in the midst of the historic 2024 Democratic National Convention and nomination of...
2 US ’mercenaries’ captured in failed kidnapping plot, Maduro says
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say t...
“Murder hornet,” invasive insect from Japan, found in the U.S.
Hundreds of Asian giant hornets, an invasive, predatory insect dubbed the “murder hornet,” have found in Washington state near the Canadian border. The Asian giant or ‘murder’ hornet can grow up to two inches long with a sting that delivers a pote...
28 vegetable sellers test corona positive in Agra
The increasing number of coronavirus cases, in the past several days, 28 vegetable vendors have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city of Taj, Agra, Uttar Pradesh. However, it is yet to be confirmed how they have contracted the virus but contact...
U.S. Death Toll Projections Double As Researchers Measure Impact Of Eased COVID-19 Lockdowns
NEW YORK: A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, almost double previous projections, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic are increasingly relaxed, r...
U.S. Death Toll Projections Double As Researchers Measure Impact Of Eased COVID-19 Lockdowns
NEW YORK: A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, almost double previous projections, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic are increasingly relaxed, r...
Karachi braces for heat wave amid virus lockdown
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast that a heatwave will sweep over urban areas of Sindh, including Karachi and Hyderabad, from Tuesday through to Friday, Geo News reported. The PMD claimed that the mercury was expected to touch ...
Coronavirus: People are having less sex in lockdown
The boss of Reckitt Benckiser, which owns Durex condoms, has said people are having less sex because of the coronavirus crisis. Laxman Narasimhan said condom sales fell in most markets, including the UK, during March as lockdowns limited opportuni...
Indian-Origin Man In Canada Loses Job Over Alleged ‘Islamophobic’
After several Indian nationals living in Arab countries were fired from their jobs for displaying and portraying Islamophobia through social media, Canada has also removed an Islamophobia from his job. An Indian-origin man living in Canada landed ...
India: Barber shot dead for refusing to give haircut amid lockdown
A barber in Bihar, India was shot dead by angry villagers after he refused to give them a haircut and shave, citing lockdown restrictions. Police said a group of villagers reached the home of barber Dinesh Thakur, 40, in Banka district last Saturd...
Singapore court jails Indian-origin man for abusing police
An Indian-origin man was sentenced to seven months in prison here on Wednesday for verbally abusing police and safe-distancing enforcement officers who were urging compliance with COVID-19 measures. Ravi Sinathamby Subramaniam, 53, had pleaded gui...
Coronavirus worse ‘attack’ than Pearl Harbor, 9/11: Trump
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of China over the global coronavirus pandemic and said it has been worse for the United States than Pearl Harbor and 9/11. As Germany unveiled plans for a return to near-normality — incl...
Indians in UAE unhappy with Modi govt’s repatriation plans
Indians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have voiced concerns about a “massive” operation announced by New Delhi to bring home some of the hundreds of thousands of nationals stranded by coronavirus restrictions. “It is just propaganda,” said Isha...
Man From Chicago Launches First Halal Angels Network To Promote Innovation Entrepreneurship & Startups To Tap $5 Trillion, Halal Consumer Market
Launched World’s First Halal Angels Network to promote Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Startups to tap $5 trillion, Halal consumer market. “The areas of interest for investments would be future technologies (Blockchain, Fintech AI, etc), Modest Fas...
Toxic gas leak at Indian chemical plant kills at least 11 and hospitalizes hundreds
A gas leak at a chemical factory in south-east India has killed at least nine people, including two children, and led to hundreds being taken to hospital, with fears the death toll could grow. The gas escaped out of tanks at a complex owned by Sou...
Feeding Manhattan’s hungry, every Ramadan night
NEW YORK — Fast. Pray. Act. Fast. Pray. Act. For a group of Brooklyn Muslims, the holy month of Ramadan is a blur: They fast during daylight hours, pray repeatedly, and use every bit of their remaining energy to feed the hungry. And not just for t...
Coronavirus hits hard as US records biggest job losses in history
WASHINGTON: Nearly all of the jobs created in the US economy in the last decade were wiped out in a single month as shops and factories remain closed nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic. An unprecedented 20.5 million jobs were destroyed in ...
Milan a ticking coronavirus time bomb, virologist warns
ROME: Italy’s economic capital Milan is a virus time “bomb” at risk of erupting with residents now free to move around — some gathering for canal-side cocktails — after two months under a pandemic lockdown. The city in the northern Lombardy region...
African countries importing Madagascar’s anti-coronavirus drink
Tanzania on Friday received its first shipment of a herbal concoction that Madagascar’s government claims cures COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Several African nations have expressed interest in the purported remedy, which is know...
Donald Trump administration working on temporary ban on visas like H-1B
The United States is mulling to temporarily ban the issuance of work-based visas including H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, amidst the high level of unemployment due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown. The H-1B is a no...
UK ‘to bring in 14-day quarantine’ for air passengers
The British government is set to introduce a 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Under measures that are likely to come into force in early June, travellers will ...
Ivanka Trump assistant tests positive for coronavirus, among other White House staff
Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and has become the third staff member in the White House to be affected by the infection,CNN reported on Saturday. The assistant used to work in a personal capacity fo...
Amit Shah Dismisses Rumours Surrounding His Health
Days after several rumours began to spread regarding the health status of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, he took to Twitter on Saturday to dismiss the conspiracy theories being floated regarding his ill-health. Home Minister Amit Shah informed peo...
Indian migrant deaths: 16 sleeping workers run over by train
Indian officials have ordered an investigation after 16 people were run over by a freight train in the state of Maharashtra. The dead were migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the tracks, while attempting to walk to a station, from where they ...
U.S. continues media battle with Beijing, limits Chinese journalists’ visas
The Department of Homeland Security said Friday the United States will shorten the visa length for Chinese journalists working for non-American news outlets to 90 days. Previously, journalists with Chinese passports were granted open-ended visas. ...
China’s Wuhan Reports First Coronavirus Infection in Over a Month
China’s National Health Commission also reported the first double-digit increase in countrywide cases in nearly 10 days, saying 14 new infections had been confirmed. Two of the cases were imported into the country from overseas, the commission sai...
US adds 1,568 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours: tracker
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States recorded 1,568 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 78,746, according to the latest real-time tally reported by Johns Hopkins University at 8:30 pm Saturday (0030 GMT Sunday). The coun...
US Supreme Court to take on Trump taxes and presidential immunity
WASHINGTON – Can Donald Trump refuse to turn over his tax returns and financial records to Congress and New York prosecutors? The Supreme Court takes up this politically charged question on Tuesday, and it may use the occasion to better define the...
No Muslim Staff: Bakery Owner In Chennai Arrested After Posting Offensive Advertisement
A 32-year old Jain bakery owner was arrested in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu yesterday, for a blatantly Islamophobic advertisement. Allegedly, the Chennai-based man was selling his products with the words, “made by Jains on orders, no Muslim sta...
Shanghai Disneyland reopens after a 3-month coronavirus closure to smaller crowds and mandatory face masks
SHANGHAI: As the coronavirus cases decrease in China, Walt Disney Co on Monday opened Shanghai Disneyland to recover the losses, with precautionary and safety measures, it had to face in the last three months because of the lockdown. The theme par...
Qatar Airways sees slow recovery in travel from pandemic
DUBAI: Global travel demand will take years to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and many business travellers may never return to the skies, the head of Qatar Airways said on Monday. The state-owned airline is one of only a few to have maintai...
As lockdown eases in Europe, spike in Asia coronavirus cases warns of second wave
PARIS: A resurgence of new cases in China’s ground zero Wuhan has warned the world of a sceond wave of new cases, causing worries for many as many European countries start easing the restrictions on the coroanvirus led lockdowns on Monday, The mix...
‘Trump Death Clock’ counts preventable US coronavirus deaths
A billboard in New York’s Times Square shows the number of US coronavirus deaths that its creator says could have been avoided if President Donald Trump had acted sooner — and it’s called the “Trump Death Clock.” Created by filmmaker Eugene Jareck...
Covid-19 Death Toll Rises to 2,293, Cases Climb to 70,756 in India: Union Health Ministry
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,293 and the number of cases climbed to 70,756 in the country on Tuesday, registering an increase of 87 fatalities and 3,604 cases in the last 24 hours since Monday 8am, according to the Union health ministr...
China coronavirus death toll rises to 490 as more countries confirm local transmission
The number of confirmed deaths from China´s coronavirus outbreak rose to at least 490, after authorities in ground-zero Hubei province reported 65 new fatalities on Wednesday. In its daily update, figures from the health commission in Hubei, which...
Wuhan to test entire population after new virus cluster
WUHAN: Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city’s entire population after new cases emerged for the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media reported Tuesday. Officials have been ordered to submit b...
Death toll in Afghan hospital attack rises to 24: minister
The death toll in an attack on an Afghan hospital in which infants and nurses were killed has risen to 24, a health official said Wednesday. Three gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in Kabul on Tuesday as parents brought infants and children for ...
UK’s Covid-19 death toll tops 40,000, worst in Europe
LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Covid-19 death toll now exceeds 40,000, by far the worst yet reported in Europe, raising more questions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. Figures published by the Office for Natio...
Saudi interior ministry announces round-the-clock curfew during Eid
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry announced on Tuesday that a round-the-clock nationwide curfew will be implemented during the five-day Eid al-Fitr holiday to control the spread of the coronavirus as infections spike in the kingdom. The kin...
Canada to Speed Visa Processing for Essential Foreign Workers
The Canadian government will fast-track work permit applications for foreign workers already in the country as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts global supply chains. The new policy allows migrant workers who lost their jobs in Canada due to COVID...
Coronavirus: India targets small businesses in economic bailout
India has announced plans to spur small and medium businesses as part of a $264bn (£216bn) economic package. These include an emergency credit line of collateral-free loans worth $40bn to to “resume business activity and safeguard jobs” in the wak...
U.N. Warns of Global Mental Health Crisis Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
LONDON: Health experts from United Nations have warned that a mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety by the pandemic of COVID-19. “The iso...
USA Police Killed Black Health Worker
The police of United States of America killed of a emergency health worker 26-year-old in her apartment in Kentucky has triggered a fresh wave of anger in the USA over officers shooting black civilians. “Black Lives Matter” slogan protests have er...