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VOL 12 ISSUE 07 ● NEW YORK ● FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 01, 2018 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news US Women's Hockey Team Beats Canada 3-2 for Gold at PyeongChang Olympics Students, Parents, Teachers Implore President Trump to Ensure School Safety Trump mulls arming teachers, increasing age for gun purchases WASHINGTON (TIP): A week after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in which 17 students were killed, President Donald Trump hosted a listening session with a group of survivors, parents and teachers. On hand were Vice President Mike Pence and Education Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson of the United States celebrates after winning the women's gold Secretary Betsy DeVos. medal hockey game at the 2018 Winter Olympics Trump held an emotional, hour-long in Gangneung, South Korea, Feb. 22, 2018 meeting with students who survived the Florida shooting and a parent whose child GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA (TIP): did not. He said arming teachers and other US Women's Hockey team gave a shock to the school staff could help prevent future mass fancied Canadians by winning the Gold in a shootings, voicing support for an idea backed thrilling penalty shootout 3 to 2. Jocelyne by the powerful National Rifle Association Lamoureux-Davidson, the sixth U.S. shooter gun lobby. in a shootout, skated slowly toward the net, Trump sat in the middle of a semi-circle in faked a shot, shifted the puck left, then pulled the White House State Dining Room. it right before tucking the puck past the Photographers captured images of his outstretched glove of diving Canada goalie handwritten note card with questions and President Donald Trump meets with students, parents and teachers affected by mass shootings Shannon Szabados. contd on Page 32 contd on page 32 in Parkland, Fla., Newtown, Conn., and Columbine, Colo., at the White House on Feb 21 to talk about policies to keep America's schools safe. Breaking News Trudeau’s India visit mired in controversy over School officer waited outside building for 4 dinner invite to ‘convicted Khalistani terrorist’ minutes as killings happened, Sheriff Israel says NEW DELHI (TIP): Canadian Prime TALLAHASSEE (TIP): A Marjory Minister Justin Trudeau's India visit kicked Stoneman Douglas school resource officer has off with rather a cold reception by government been suspended without pay after Broward of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi who County Sheriff Scott Israel said video shows has been very warm to visiting heads of state him taking up a defensive position during the and government who he received warmly on shooting but never entering the school. Israel arrival, sent in a junior minister to receive the announced Thursday that the decision to visiting Prime Minister of Canada, ostensibly suspend Deputy Scot Peterson was made after contd on Page 32 reviewing video Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau being contd on Page 32 received on arrival, Feb 17, by a minister of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel addresses a state for agriculture. press conference on Feb 22, 2018. (Image Tweeted by @Justin Trudeau) Special Counsel Mueller Files New Charges against Manafort and Gates WASHINGTON (TIP): Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed, February 22, new fraud and money-laundering charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates. In the 37-page indictment, prosecutors describe a "scheme" in which the two longtime business partners allegedly laundered $30 million, failed to pay Manafort faces 18 new charges in Virginia, taxes for almost 10 years and used real estate while Gates faces 23 new charges. contd on Page 32 104-02, 120th Street, S. Richmond Hill, NY 11419 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 INDIANS ABROAD FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018 Indian Origin Canada's Indian American student to build a primary Defense Minister Harjit Singh Sajjansays He health clinic in Uttar Pradesh village MARYLAND (TIP): An Indian American patients for serious illnesses, such as heart Faced Discrimination in student at Towson University is leading an diseases, cancer, blood diseases, eye diseases effort to build a primary health clinic in a and kidney diseases, as well as treat common Canadian Military remote village in Uttar Pradesh. diseases including fever, malaria, Mohammad Siddiqi, 21, is helping to build a tuberculosis, gastroenteritis, respiratory clinic in the village of Santokha, in the diseases and infections, he said. It will have Sandila district, 50 miles to the southwest of curative, education and prevention programs. Lucknow. Siddiqi's parents Akhlaq and Eventually, the clinic will have state-of-the- Anjum Siddiqi were born and grew up in the art diagnostic services, including X-ray, area before they moved to the United States ultrasound and ECG, he added. decades ago. Siddiqi said a current challenge is building There are no healthcare facilities in relationships with the local government as Santokha and villagers are forced to see quack well as NGOs and healthcare professionals. doctors with no medical background that Involvement of the local community and recommend hazardous "treatments," other stakeholders will ensure long-term Mohammad Siddiqi said. His mission is to viability of the project, he said. provide quality healthcare to the poor people Citing the assisted living facility his in the village and neighboring areas, he Mohammad Siddiqi, 21, is helping to build a mother runs, Siddiqi said healthcare is a field added. clinic in the village of Santokha that his family deeply cares about and has "After visiting my parents' village for the expertise in, and, considering his parents' first time, I realized there is very limited His father, Akhlaq Siddiqi, works for the US roots in the area, starting a clinic in the access to emergency medical services as well Patent Office and his mother Anjum Siddiqi Sandila region was quite natural. as a need for basic education regarding health runs an assisted living facility in His father Akhlaq Siddiqi said the family practices in different situations, such as Gaithersburg, MD. has a strong emotional bond with the village prenatal and postnatal care," he said. "I hope Although his studies and career plans are and wanted to do something for the area. After to tackle these two needs with this clinic, centered around accounting and finance - a family visit a few years ago, Mohammad saw which is already well into its development." upon completing his undergraduate degree in the condition of the villagers and decided to Siddiqi, who is currently studying at May 2018, he plans to start an internship with take the initiative in building the clinic, he Towson University with a major in Deloitte for Summer 2018 before pursuing a said. Harjit Singh Sajjan. File Photo accounting while interning part-time at Master's in Finance - Mohammad Siddiqi said "In future we plan to build similar clinic in Morgan Stanley as a finance analyst, has been he has developed a passion to help others not other parts of Uttar Pradesh by mobilizing NEW DELHI (TIP): Indian origin able to raise $75,000 for the construction of the as fortunate. other people of Uttar Pradesh origin," Akhlaq Canada's Defense Minister Harjit Singh clinic so far. Among other things, the clinic will screen Siddiqi said. Sajjan said he "faced discrimination" in that country's military because he "looked different". Indian American NUMC surgeon Indian American Vandana Sajjan, who moved to Canada as a young boy, said this in the presence of Sophie from Long Island walks free of all Jhingan removed from Illinois Gregoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, currently on a week-long criminal charges Republican primary ballot in visit to India. "I was born in India and moved to Illinois Canada, when I was five... When I was 18 and joined the military there, I faced CHICAGO (TIP: discrimination, even though I am a Indian American Canadian...because I looked different," he Vandana Jhingan, the said, during the Asia launch of the global Republican Hindu campaign -- 'She Will Grow Into It' here. Coalition-backed Sajjan is travelling along with Trudeau candidate, has been and his wife, and they visited Amritsar removed from the official and even offered 'sewa' (volunteer service). list of Republican "I hail from a small village and lived a primary ballot in Illinois' very simple life, before migrating to 8th Congressional Canada," he said. District. Sajjan, who became the Defense Jhingan was one of the minister in 2015, also shared an anecdote two Indian American from his youth days to underline the Dr. Venkatesh Sasthakonar, on his way out of court in Mineola on Tuesday, Republicans vying for the message of equality. Feb. 20, 2018. Photo / Courtesy Newsday GOP nomination to run "I was 12, and I came across a girl in against the incumbent India, with round, beautiful eyes, who LONG ISLAND, NY (TIP): Indian American surgeon Dr. Venkatesh Democrat Raja Vandana Jhingan, a Chicago-based came towards me begging for money and I Sasthakonar has been cleared of all criminal charges by a judge in Nassau Krishnamoorthi in the journalist, is the Midwest Bureau asked her to go away...Years later in County, Long Island, according to news reports. November election. Chief of the Indian American cable Canada, when I faced discrimination, her The well-known surgeon was accused by a nurse of allegedly trying to Jhingan was network TV Asia face flashed in front of my eyes, and I strangle her with an 'elastic cord' following differences over some medical disqualified after a realized she was begging because she was procedures. But a judge exonerated him on Feb. 20, and police said there was constituent, Steven Anderson, filed a complaint that many hungry," he said. insufficient evidence that any crime occurred after examining videos and signatories to her nomination were not residents of the The Canadian minister said that then he talking to colleagues at the hospital.