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Chicago based Dr Mehbub Kapadia along with his sons Sameer and Zul embarked on a revolutionary project – to get every possible Chicagoan from underserved area Covid Vaccination HiIndia Newsdesk WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of Homeland Security has issued a final rule that removes from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) an interim final rule (IFR) issued in October 2020, which has since been vacated by a federal district court. On Oct. 8, 2020, DHS issued an IFR titled, Strengthening the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Classification Program. On Dec. 1, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California vacated the IFR. This final rule removes the regulatory text that DHS published in the vacated October 2020 IFR and restores the regulatory text to appear as it did before the October 2020 IFR was issued.
HiIndia Newsdesk VALENCIA, CA- Every day, India’s Covid-19 death toll continues to mount, with the virus sparing no one. On May 10, Indian American software engineer Anand Mehta f r o m Va l e n c i a , i n S o u t h e r n California, who was in India to help his Covid-infected elderly parents and brother, died of complications from the deadly disease. Mehta is sur vived by his wife Vandana and two sons, 15-year-old Yash and 10-year-old Avinash.
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HiIndia Newsdesk CRYSTAL L AKE, IL— Sa hara deteriorating health. Services include Homecare has opened its 11th laundry, light housekeeping, location in Crystal Lake in an effort to meal preparation, grocery shopping, better serve the senior community in as well as help with feeding, grooming, Chicagoland’s northwest suburbs. The bathing and dressing among others. new office is located at 1024 To qualify, potential clients must:v- Be McHenry Ave. Coincidentally, the 60 years or older. - Be a U.S. Citizen grand opening of Sahara’s 11th or legal alien.- Be a resident of Illinois. location comes only a few days after -Have non-exempt asset value of less the agency celebrated its 11th than $17,500. - Have an assessed anniversary earlier in May. need for care. - Have applied for “We have been afloat throughout this Medicaid Besides the new location in pandemic and I really hope we can Crystal Lake, Sahara’s other locations continue the way we’ve been throughout Chicagoland include d oi ng t h i ng s ,” s ai d Pre s i d e nt Lombard, Skokie, Melrose Park, Armaghan Rana in a statement. “We Hanover Park, Bolingbrook, Chicago, just have to keep on moving forward.” Albany Park, Justice, Elgin, and Mount Sahara receives funding through the Prospect. Starting wage for Homecare Illinois Department on Aging to give Aides is $15.50/hour and caregivers additional assistance to the are eligible to receive health benefits elderly if they meet certain if working at least 20 hours per week. qualifications. Homecare Aides assist For more information please contact clients with everyday tasks that can Kulsoom Khan at (847) 722-8914 or become difficult due to old age and kulsoomk@saharahomecare.com
Lollapalooza Will Return To Grant Park, Mayor Lori Lightfoot Made it Official
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CHICAGO, IL- CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot made it official: Lollapalooza will return to Grant Park. The four-day music fest’s line-up is scheduled to be revealed Wednesday, when tickets are set to go on sale. Folks who plan on attending this year should be prepared to show proof they are fully vaccinated or proof of a negative COVID-19 test 24 hours before each day of the festival, city officials said. More details on the festival entry process will be available in early July, city officials said. “Here in Chicago, the word ‘Lollapalooza’ has always been synonymous with summer, great music and four days of unforgettable fun – which made last year’s decision to postpone it all the more difficult,” Lightfoot said. “Now, less than a year later and armed with a vaccine that is safe, effective and widely available, we are able to bring back one of our city’s most iconic summer music festivals. I want to thank the Lollapalooza team for working closely with the City to create a reopening strategy that prioritizes safety and can’t wait to see festivalgoers return to Grant Park this summer Lollapalooza organizers celebrated the news on social media with a video announcing, “We’re back!!!!”
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By: Sachin Tripathi Today In Chicago, hundreds of Hindu Americans stood in solidarity with the Jewish community, showing their steadfast support to Israel against the Hamas terror attack. A peaceful vigil led Dr. Bharat Baraai, Peggy Shapiro, Amitabh Mittal, Vandana Jhingan, and other community leaders, brought together people from both the Hindu and Jewish American diaspora who condemned the attacks by Hamas targeting residential areas in Israel and united in one voice to demand peace in the region.
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HiIndia Newsdesk ALATINE, IL – The Illinois State Awareness and Appreciation Month” by Senator Ann Gillespie of the 27th the Illinois General Assembly. State of district and the past president and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed now commissioner of Metropolitan the Bill HB 2832 into a law on August 3, Water Reclamation District of Greater 2019 at Sikh Religious Society, Palatine Chicago (MWRD) visited the Sikh Gurdwara premises, designating “April Religious Society Gurdwara in Palatine, as Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Illinois to present the proclamations Month” in the state of Illinois, effective to the members of Sikh community January 1, 2020. “We are happy with the honoring the month of April as Sikh progress we made this year and hope Awareness and Appreciation Month in to broaden the scope of the activities the State of Illinois, and 18 April as the next year by involving more regions of “Guru Teg Bahadur Day” in the State the state of Illinois,” said Sikh Religious of Illinois to honor the 400th birth Society Palatine President Amardev anniversary of Sikh’s ninth Guru. The Singh. month of April was designated as “Sikh
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But this month, Singapore overwhelmed Congress in seen recent been HiIndia Newsdesk throughout Chicagoland include and Taiwan haveand both a years: the nearly brother, died complications tion’s history, butofthe pandemic brought old biases and prejudices back to the foreoverwhelming potency Trump still has among sudden and aggressive rise in cases Pre s i d e nt Lombard, Skokie, Melrose Park, Republicans and a jagged-edged partisanship thatdisease. from the deadly tanyahu vowed Israel continued to pound Hamas targets in Gaza with with Singapore logging 248 new often confounds even mundane legislation. ground,” New Democrat said. “The Senate can be proud it took the lead.” litary offensive“We in airstrikes, while Palestinian militants bombarded Israel with just last and Taiwan atement. Hanover Park, Bolingbrook, Chicago, Mehta isthe surand vivedYork by his wife “I cases encourage allweek, members, Republicans Rep. 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The Biden administration has waived sanctions on a company building a controversial gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. The US also lifted sanctions on the executive - an ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin - who leads the firm behind the Nord Stream 2 project. The move came in a report on Russian sanctions delivered to Congress by the Department of State. Critics say the pipeline is a major geopolitical prize for the t shake-up in the Kremlin. The project, which would take gas from the Russian Arctic under the Baltic Sea to Germany, is already more -1990s. than 95% complete. The Department of State report notes ody, Great British that Nord Stream 2 AG and its chief executive, Matthias s and prices, sell Warnig, a former East German intelligence officer, engaged ucture. in sanctionable activity. But it concludes that it is in the US o run most trains. national interest to waive the sanctions.
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