Mayank Chhaya- In the midst of the first anniversary of America’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan, just consider this one statistic. According to the United Nations, 97 percent of Afghans could be living in poverty by end of this year. An entire country has been pauperized by decades of wars and occupations it did not necessarily […]
Ritu Jha- The U.S. has no shortage of skilled workers, according to a new report by Ron Hira,[Above photo] a professor at Howard University, based on his analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The report comes out at a time President Joe Biden has signed the CHIPS and Science Act, and there is a […]
Mohan Bhargava came to the US to study at the University of Pennsylvania and thereafter got busy with work and life here. In 2004 he was Project Manager for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) project at NASA when he appeared at a press briefing at NASA Goddard Space Center.
Mayank Chhaya- Astronomers have likely found what could turn out to be the youngest planet ever observed. As announced in The Astrophysical Journal Letters today, the infant planet is barely 395 light-years from Earth and began forming only 1.5 million years ago. For comparison, Earth at 4.543 billion years is 3,000 times older than this […]
With global climate extremes devastating many parts of the world America is putting money where its mouth is in the passage today of a hugely ambitious climate and tax bill.
Mayank Chhaya – Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s in-your-face visit to Taipei in defiance of Beijing’s inevitable bellicosity over it has set the stage for a period of tense bilateral relations between the United States and China. The visit comes in the run-up to the Communist Party of China’s (CCP) 20th National Congress where President Xi Jinping […]
Mayank Chhaya- The killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul on Sunday morning local time opens up two diametrically opposite possibilities about the role that the current Taliban government might have played in the action. The popular wisdom is that Zawahiri’s presence in the capital Kabul was the clearest evidence that the […]
Mayank Chhaya- With Earth experiencing a rash of extreme heatwaves, wildfires and floods across its length and breadth, a leading UK scientist has warned that it is no longer possible to avoid “perilous, all-pervasive, climate breakdown.” Bill McGuire, emeritus professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College, London, says in his book “Hothouse Earth”, […]
According to Department of the Health and Human Services (DHHS), the 988 lifeline is the culmination of a three-year joint effort by the DHSS, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to put crisis care more in reach for people in need.
Mayank Chhaya- Two high-profile newspapers owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch have turned on former President Donald Trump after relentlessly building him up and acquiescing to his repeated political, cultural, diplomatic and moral transgressions. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, the former a respected broadsheet and the latter and a brass knuckle […]
