City’s Yoga Guru recalls his time in New York soon after 9/11 terror By Sharath Jois, Ashtanga yoga teacher Mysuru-based Ashtanga yoga teacher Sharath Jois was in New York to teach yoga when the two planes struck the World Trade Center. Here he recalls what he saw and how yoga helped his students heal from…
Indian-Origin Journalists win Pulitzer Prize
June 13, 2021New York: Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors, has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its restive Xinjiang region. Rajagopalan from BuzzFeed News is among two Indian-origin…
US revokes Student Visa Rule after legal challenge by top Universities
July 15, 2020New York: The United States Government rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due to Coronavirus, a Federal Judge said yesterday. The Universities of Harvard and MIT, with the support of a number of other institutions, had taken legal action against the move that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
US new visa rules for foreign students to hit Indians badly
July 8, 2020New York: In a move that will adversely impact hundreds of thousands of Indian students, the US immigration authority has announced that foreign students will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their Universities switch to online-only classes in this fall semester due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Problem getting sleep at night?
January 10, 2018New York: Studies have found a link between low levels of magnesium, an essential mineral that plays a crucial role in a wide range of bodily processes, and sleep disorders. But if you are concerned you aren’t getting enough magnesium, changing your diet may be a better option than taking a supplement, as “there is…
Nadal wins US Open
September 11, 2017New York: An appropriate finishing kick for his 16th grand slam, World No. 1 Rafael Nadal literally overwhelmed Kevin Anderson, and the world alike, when he did not face a single break point and lost only 15 points on his serve in the final match, to win his third US Open title here. Nadal claimed…
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