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Ritu Jha- Even though the California Department of Public Health announced the statewide reopening of places of worship for religious services and in-store retail shopping, Northern California temples say they will wait. “It’s risky seeing the number of rising COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara,” Balwant Birla, chairman of the Santa Clara-based Sunnyvale Hindu Temple, told […]
indica News Bureau- On May 24 India celebrated Ramadan in a relatively subdued manner due to the raising concerns of the coronavirus. But a festival is a festival, and Ramadan is, after all, a festival of togetherness and gratitude. Being in the midst of a pandemic, there can be no better time to show […]
Arundhuti Banerjee – Bollywood playback legend Asha Bhosle, who made her debut in the digital world with her official YouTube channel recently, says that the global pandemic of COVID 19 teaches us the power of togetherness. “I am living with my family. I am with my son, daughter-in-law and my granddaughter, and we are having […]
indica News Bureau- Indian American father toasted to his son on his wedding day saying that though the revelation that he was gay was a lot for him to take, he still loved him the same. Dr Vijay Mehta, attending his son Parag Mehta’s wedding to his partner Vaibhav Jain, raised him a toast and […]
IANS- Amitabh Bachchan is spending ample time during the lockdown working out with grandson Agastya Nanda, and he has shared a snapshot capturing the experience on his social media. The actor took to Instagram to share a post-workout selfie with Agastya from his gym at his residence. In the monochrome picture, Big B is seen […]
indica News Bureau- The novel coronavirus is reaching record numbers each day here in the US with more and more frontline workers falling prey to it. Its latest claim is, Dr. Sudheer S Chauhan, a physician of Indian origin, who had dedicated his life to the service of his patients. Dr. Chauhan was diagnosed with […]
indica News Bureau- Ten year-old Indian American girl scout and her friends who together donated a number of cookie boxes and personalized greeting cards to healthcare workers and other frontline warriors were felicitated by President Donald Trump at a ceremony held in Washington to honor coronavirus heroes. Sravya Annappareddy, a fourth-grade student at the Hanover […]
IANS- Southern California’s United Sikh Mission has been distributing about 1,400 meals daily for the past month with help from hundreds of volunteers in the local community, a media reported. This is one of the largest operations in the region, supplying thousands of vegetarian meals not only to seniors and health-care workers at local hospitals, […]
IANS- The much-talked about ‘Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City’ by well-known Chinese literary writer Fang Fang, has released in India in the ebook format. Published by HarperNonFiction, the audio will follow on May 26. The book, which will be translated into 15 languages is a compilation of the author’s diary entries and social […]
Vishnu Makhijani – Earlier this year, the Rajasthan government ruled that the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), dubbed the greatest literary show on earth, would have to shift out of the Diggy Palace, its home for 13 years on logistical issues. Then came the coronavirus pandemic that has locked down India and much of the world […]
