USCIS officials to get discretionary powers to reject incomplete applications, without requests for information Ritu Jha Frivolous filings are why the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has to take a strong decision about the recent policy memorandum (PM) that gives USCIS adjudicators discretionary power to deny an application, petition, or request without […]
Participants at a conference focusing on engineer-driven healthcare describe the pains involved and the promise of the new industry Ritu Jha Physicians need to prescribe wearable devices before the market for them can thrive. That was Mir Imran, chairman, and CEO of Rani Therapeutics, and who was one of the speakers at […]
indica Washington Bureau The influential Impact Fund on Tuesday announced to endorse Indian-origin entrepreneur Suneel Gupta in the Democratic party primary for the 11th Congressional District from Michigan. Gupta, 38, is the younger brother of CNN’s star medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta and son of Damyanti Gupta, who was the first female engineer with a degree […]
The former vice mayor of Fremont, California, and urban planner wants to improve the Bay Area’s transport system Ritu Jha Anu Natarajan, a former vice mayor of Fremont, California, who took a break of more than five years from city politics, is now running for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), board of […]
They assert the Supreme Court nominee is too extreme and could strip constitutional rights from many politically weak groups indica Washington Bureau Senator Kamala Harris., and US representatives Pramila Jayapal and Raja Krishnamoorthi are among the Indian American lawmakers who have announced they’re to oppose the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme […]
Packed facilities, long confinement linked to health and mental problems in multiple locations, including the one housing Indian asylum-seekers Ritu Jha Overcrowded prisons, including the Sheridan federal prison in Oregon that houses at least 52 Indian asylum-seekers, is host to a variety of diseases, according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). […]
Frank Islam In this 21st century, democracy is descending and autocracy is ascending in countries around the world. That is the conclusion and argument that Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa present in their article titled “The End of the Democratic Century” published in the May/June edition of Foreign Affairs. For much of […]
Speakers discussed the many hurdles in ensuring equality and called on men to do their bit Ritu Jha “Empowerment of Women” was the theme of the third annual 2018 Ideal Village conference recently held at Stanford University. The topics addressed included gender inequality, and the dearth of healthcare, education, safety, a decent livelihood […]
They joined the nationwide protests to support immigrant rights and protest the Trump Administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy Ritu Jha Drones hovered over the hundreds of people, activists and supporters, who participated in a rally where the beating of drums and cried of “Abolish ICE” that ended at a detention facility in Richmond, California. […]
InMobi evaluated the entire landscape and felt that Microsoft had the best technology Ritu Jha InMobi had been doing very well in mobile-based marketing, but a recent partnership with Microsoft makes it clear it plans to target larger organizations than it has in its customer base. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, announced in a […]
