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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Indian-American non-profit body raises USD 7 million for India COVID crisis

11:41 pm May 6, 2021

Houston: An Indian-American non-profit body has said that it has reached the 101,000-donor mark and raised over USD 7 million towards COVID-19 relief efforts in India from its Facebook campaign within 10 days. Started with a goal of USD 500,000 on April 25 as India started seeing a drastic increase in the number of cases reported daily, Sewa Internationa’s ‘Help India Defeat COVID-19’ campaign on Facebook has grown […]

US closes in on 100 million Americans fully vaccinated

11:24 pm April 30, 2021

New York: Disneyland reopened Friday and New York’s mayor predicted the big city will be up and running again at full strength by July 1, as the number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 closed in on 100 million. Visitors cheered and screamed with delight as the Southern California theme park swung open its gates […]

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CDC says many Americans can now go outside without a mask

10:40 pm April 27, 2021

NEW YORK: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers. And those who are unvaccinated can go outside without masks in some cases, too. The new […]

Married 66 years, husband, wife die minutes apart of virus

7:38 pm March 21, 2021

Fort Lauderdale: Bill and Esther Ilnisky spent nearly seven decades together as Christian ministers and missionaries, including stints in the Caribbean and Middle East before preaching for 40 years in Florida. They complemented each other — he the bookworm, she outgoing and charismatic. One without the other seemed unthinkable. So when they died minutes apart of COVID-19 this month at a Palm Beach County […]

Spa shooting victims ID’d as Biden, Harris head to Atlanta

11:48 pm March 19, 2021

Atlanta: The names of four additional victims in the Atlanta-area massage businesses shootings have been released, hours before President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive in Atlanta to meet with Asian American community leaders. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday that the four victims at two Atlanta businesses are Soon C. Park, 74; Hyun J. Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; and Yong A. Yue, 63. […]