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Desh-Videsh July 2020
Cover Story
Posted: June 29, 2020
2020 Valedictorians Tina Jethwa, Boca Prep International School GPA: 4.0 (unweighted) College: University of Florida Parents: Deepali and Nilesh Jethwa Academic Awards: IB Diploma recipient (received 5 and higher on all exams), 3 time winner of the President’s Award for Educational Excellence, Florida Bright Futures Academic Scholar recipient Extracurricular: National Honor Society president, student government secretary, volunteer library assistant/tutor, yearbook …
Incredible Indian
Posted: June 29, 2020
Recently, Desh-Videsh had the opportunity to interview Dr. Arvind Panagariya. Learn more about the internationally famed economist below. As I understand, PM Modi ji hand-picked you as a Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. Can you share with our readers how that came about? My acquaintance with PM Modi began in 2012 around the time of the Gujarat state assembly elections. …
Incredible Indian
Posted: June 29, 2020
By Raj Shah, Managing Editor, Desh-Videsh Imagine you are twenty two years old, just graduated from a small university in India and you earn admission to three of the most prestigious universities in the United States – Princeton University, University of Chicago, and Cornell University. Now you are faced with making a decision about which school you will attend. I …
Health
Posted: June 27, 2020
By Chahna Tailor When people think of Ayurveda, one of the first herbs that comes to mind is Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is known for being the herb of choice for those that suffer from stress, anxiety, and insomnia. But this herb can be used for so much more and should also not be used in some instances. We have three doshas …
Financial Planning
Posted: June 29, 2020
It’s important to maintain a level head in times of market turbulence. But that is often easier said than done, especially in the heat of market volatility. Even with the best intentions, investors can be challenged by their own bias and emotions when it comes to making investment decisions. Emotional investing may be amplified during periods of market stress. But …
Education
Posted: July 1, 2020
We are excited to inform you that despite the challenges from the COVID-19 shelter-in-place, AkshayaPatra has successfully launched a Miami and South Florida chapter this year. Miami South Florida now supports the world’s largest mid-day meal program. AkshayaPatra is the world’s largest mid-day meal program providing hot, nutritious, school lunches every school day to over 1.8 million children in 16,856 …
Book Review
Posted: July 1, 2020
You People By Nikita Lalwani The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London – with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant’s charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need. …
Poem
Posted: June 29, 2020
First Prize Winner – NAMI NJ 2020 Mental Health Poetry Contest Theme: battling our challenges with superpowers The slow cleaving in my backbone the seamless transformation: branching into my thousand selves Like a sapling breaking from the blind seed I’m sprouting, I am thriving. Growing like a Medusa this fecundity of myself, breaking out into thousand versions of me morphing …
Desh-Videsh Live YouTube Channel
Posted: July 1, 2020
Since 1993, Desh-Videsh Media Group has always pledged to serve our growing community. With our mission in mind and in collaboration with businesses and leaders from our community, we are excited to bring you our newest project – Desh-Videsh Live. Desh-Videsh Live presents viewers with a series of informative videos and webinars that you can watch from the comfort of …
Health
Posted: July 2, 2020
As part of the 6th International Yoga Day commemorations, the world’s first yoga university outside India has been launched in Los Angeles, California offering programmes that combine scientific principles and modern research approaches to the ancient Indian practice of yoga. The Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU) is said to be the brainchild of Dr. H R Nagendra, a former scientist from …
Education
Posted: July 3, 2020
The summer of 2020 will likely be remembered as one of canceled travel plans, socializing via Zoom, and keeping children busy. For parents who may be working from home or used to children away at summer camp, having the entire family stuck inside can be frustrating. With school over and many in-person camps canceled, parents might be wondering how to …
Incredible Indian
Posted: July 1, 2020
By Raj Shah, Managing Editor, Desh-Videsh In less than two weeks, Desh Videsh Media Group and Florida Fine arts came together to create a music series to alleviate some of anxiety and stress caused by the COVID-19 shutdown. Sa Ni Dha Pa Live – Sur Sangam in Your Living room, a web-based music series, is a true community project, and …
Bollywood News
Posted: June 29, 2020
Shoojit Sircar made an important announcement via Twitter last Saturday and tagged Instagram in his tweet. He said that his Instagram account has been hacked. His post was re-tweeted by Mumbai police, Maharashtra Cyber etc. The director recently directed Gulabo Sitabo that was released on Amazon Prime June 11. It is the first major mainstream movie to release on a …
Bollywood News
Posted: June 29, 2020
In a stunning new development in the Sushant Singh Rajput case, a formal complaint was filed against the late actor’s girlfriend Rhea Chakrabarty in a Bihar court. The actress has been facing charges of aiding the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput. Kundan Kumar, a citizen of Muzzafarnagar’s Patahi locality has filed this complaint in Mukesh Kumar (Chief Magistrate’s) court. Kamlesh …
Desi TV
Posted: June 29, 2020
There’s nothing like cashing in on success and if you’re talking about Ekta Kapoor, you will automatically think of Kahani Ghar Ghar Kii and Kahin Kisii Roz. These two enjoyed tremendous popularity and Ekta may well revive them in season 2 with some new twists and turns. This can be seen in the revival of Kasauti Zindagii Kay that had …
Editorial
Posted: July 2, 2020
Dear Readers, In these unprecedentedly difficult times, we seem to get depressing news everywhere we turn. So we will be the last ones to give you depressing news. Instead, Desh Videsh Media Group would like to brighten your days by bringing only positive news and showing you the silver lining around this dark cloud. In the last issue, we did …
India News
By Raj Shah, Managing Editor, Desh-Videsh Imagine you are twenty two years old, just graduated from a small university in India and you earn admission to three of the most prestigious universities in the United States – Princeton University,...
Recently, Desh-Videsh had the opportunity to interview Dr. Arvind Panagariya. Learn more about the internationally famed economist below. As I understand, PM Modi ji hand-picked you as a Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. Can you share with our readers...
Seema Verma heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is a health policy consultant. She evolved a Medicare plan for seniors to cap their insulin bills at US$ 35 per month. This came in the wake of...
By Alyssa Ayres India is the world’s largest democracy. However, despite its shared political system with the United States, India’s approach to human rights and foreign policy differs greatly from its Western counterparts. The following excerpt from Our Time...
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Bollywood
The most admired Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter-in-law and granddaughter have joined him and his son in testing positive for COVID-19. The father and son are being diagnosed at Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai. Abhishek Bachchan said his wife, former...
Recently, Sushant Singh Rajput’s co-star in the upcoming film “Dil Bechara”, Swastika Mukherjee have shared a video of her dance with the late actor. In the video, Swastika and Sushant can be seen trying their hands at salsa to...
Legendary Bollywood comedian Jagdeep passed away at the age of 81 in Mumbai on Wednesday night. Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri, better known as Jageep, was not keeping well for the last few days. He left behind his two sons,...
“Directed by Ranjit M. Tewari and written by Aseem Arrora and Parveez Shaikh, the schedule of the movie ‘Bellbottom’ is set to begin from August 2020. The entire team will be heading to the UK for the same”, said...
Desi TV
Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chasmah is still going strong after being introduced in 2008, making it a legend among serials. Each of the stars has a unique fan base besides being household names. You all know of Jethalal, Daya...
Vikas Gupta, former Bigg Boss contestant, sarcastically thanked Parth Samthaan and Priyank Sharma for making him announce he is bisexual. Vikas tweeted on his official Twitter that he “falls in love with the human regardless of their gender. There...
Mahira Sharma said in an interview with Spotboye that when she, along with others including Paras Chhabra were locked up inside the Bigg Boss house, they all used to tell him to remove his Akansha Puri’s name tattoo and...
Everyone remembers Naira aka Shivangi Joshi of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai fame. Shivangi has been practicing yoga for the last four years under a professional yoga trainer. On the occasion of International Yoga Day 2020 on June 21,...
NRI News
Prof. Rattan Lal of Ohio State University and Dr. Uma Lele of the International Association of Agricultural Economists are among the Scientific Group Members named by Guterres, a statement issued by the UN spokesperson said. The two eminent agricultural...
Indian American Forum (IAF) censures China’s hostility into the Indian Territory bringing about war-like circumstances and violating the Line of Actual Control. China is notable for forcefully asserting its authority over a few Asian fronts. Since 2013, China is...
The new visa guidelines requiring universal students in the US with a F-1 visa to take at any rate one in-person course or face the possibility of extradition is probably going to “cause vulnerabilities and challenges” for certain students,...
The corps of Knight-Hennessy Scholarship as introduced by Stanford University this year includes quite a few Indian American or South Asian American students. The 2020 cohort is a group of 76 students comprise of Indian Americans, Indo-Canadian as well...
Immigration News
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is celebrating the Declaration of Independence and the birth of our great country by hosting naturalization ceremonies across the United States from July 1 through July 7. Despite the pandemic, USCIS continues to...
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced a regulatory change to deter aliens from illegally entering the United States and from filing frivolous, fraudulent, or otherwise non-meritorious claims for asylum to obtain an employment authorization document. This rule does not alter...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Deputy Director for Policy Joseph Edlow issued the following statement on today’s Supreme Court decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program: Today’s court opinion has no basis in law and...
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced a regulatory change to provide greater flexibility in the processing of initial employment authorization documents (commonly called EADs) for asylum applicants by removing the burdensome and agency-imposed 30-day time frame. The final rule becomes...
Religion
On May 7, 2020, the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha was invited to participate in the National Day of Prayer in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C. The National Day of Prayer is an annual event formally...
By Kanchan Gupta The Ramayan tells us that Sri Ram was banished from Ayodhya and sent into exile for 14 years to deny him the crown that was rightfully his. The great epic recounts the story of those 14...
India is known for its rich culture, heritage, and religious diversity. Home to a diverse range of faiths, the nation’s multi-religious identity lends itself to a unique landscape for visitors to enjoy. People from all over the world visit...
Hinduism believes in the concept of evolution of life on earth. Although it is not the same as the one known to modern science, in many ways and in a very fundamental sense, it is not much different from...
Health
Researchers noted that studies have shown that “beyond any reasonable doubt” viruses of covid-19 have the ability to travel a dozen meters per area. A group of 239 international scientists have urged authorities, including the World Health Organization (WHO),...
After a pastor in Inner Mongolia became infected, health officials issued a level three alarm to ban the hunting and consumption of animals that can transmit the virus, famous for causing nearly 50 million deaths in the Middle Ages....
A WWF report warns of steps to take to prevent a new pandemic like Covid-19. Recently, WWF published a report in which it warns that “if we do not take immediate action, Covid-19 may be just one of many...
For decades, people diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia have been advised to decrease the amount of saturated fat to lower cholesterol and reduce their risks of heart disease. Such recommendations are common but controversial. A new study shows no evidence...
Sports
We are devastated by the destruction caused to communities, families and wildlife by the bushfires across Australia, and our thoughts are with all those affected by this crisis. We encourage the global cricket family to support relief efforts through...
Australia batsman Marnus Labuschagne has grabbed a career-best third place in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings after a match-winning double-century against New Zealand in Sydney. Warner back among top five, Starc equals career-best fifth position Stokes, Anderson...
India opener Lokesh Rahul and captain Virat Kohli have made significant progress in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings after producing two superb knocks each in the three-match home series against the West Indies which they won...
Aleem Dar will break Steve Bucknor’s record of most Test matches as an umpire in the first Test match between Australia and New Zealand, which commences in Perth on Thursday. • The 51-year-old from Pakistan overtakes Steve Bucknor in...
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