by Staff Writer | Mar 15, 2018 | General
On Wednesday morning, March 14, Mount Madonna School (MMS) middle and high students participated in the National School Walkout day, with a short hike to a nearby fountain on their campus. At the same time, MMS fifth grade students, with parent permission, held their...
by Nirupama | Mar 13, 2018 | General
This article was first published on November 1, 2017. Mass shootings: There were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogs such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single...
by Jaya Padmanabhan | Mar 12, 2018 | General
In the Silicon Valley, the shortage of graduates with STEM degrees is acutely felt. On Google’s “careers” site, a search for “program management” will yield 300 open positions for qualified individuals just to work on program management...
by Sajjad Lateef | Feb 27, 2018 | General
As a child growing up in India, it was common to hear elders on both my mother’s and father’s sides talk about their diabetes and their high blood pressure. I used to overhear conversations about stents, angioplasty, and blockages during family get-togethers. My...
by Staff Writer | Feb 23, 2018 | General
By Mark Hedin, Ethnic Media Services Warning that the country is heading down a white nationalist, nativist path, four immigrant rights advocates issued a call to action just hours before the U.S. Senate rejected all four proposals to change U.S. immigration policy,...
by Staff Writer | Dec 18, 2017 | Visa Dates
This column carries final action dates and other transitional information as taken from the U.S. State Department’s Visa Bulletin. The information below is from the Visa Bulletin for September 2017. In the tables below, the listing of a date for any class indicates...
