YEARS # 1 Indian American Weekly : Since 2006 VOL 15 ISSUE 17 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● APR 23 - APR 29, 2021 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 ● [email protected] www.theindianpanorama.news Will bring out a special edition to With more than 300,000 cases, mark Mother's Day which falls on May 9 this year. India records world’s highest Articles and advertisements are invited from readers. The last date for submission is May 2, 2021. single-day spike on April 21, 2021 Please email articles and advertisements by May 2 to THE COUNTRY REPORTED 3,15,660 INFECTIONS AND 2,091 DEATHS [email protected] NEW DELHI /NEW YORK (TIP): India set a world record of sorts on April 21 when it registered, for the first time, more than 300,000 COVID-19 cases U.S. will cut emissions by in a single day.As many as 3,15,660 cases up to 52% by 2030, said and 2,091 deaths were recorded in the country as of 11.15 p.m. IST on April 21. Joe Biden at the 'Leaders No country has recorded more cases in a Summit on Climate' single day. The country has so far reported a total of 1,59,24,914 cases and NEW YORK 1,84,662 deaths. (TIP): U.S. Also read editorial and opinion President Joe Biden on Pages 8,9 & 10 announced that the U.S. CONTD ON PAGE 36 would cut its Covid cases rise alarmingly in India U.S. President told greenhouse gas << world leaders that there emissions by was 'an extraordinary 50%-52% by Bibi Jagir Kaur engine' of job creation 2030 relative to president SGPC in the climate response Sikh’s Ninth Master ‘Guru’ Tegh Bahadur’s 2005 levels, in a addressing Media Photo credit / AP persons in clean break 400th anniversary: SGPC to telecast live Amritsar on with the Trump administration Wednesday, policies on climate action. Mr. Biden NEW YORK /AMRITSAR (TIP): The President Bibi Jagir Kaur, addressing April 21. also announced that the U.S. would 400th Parkash Purb centenary media persons in Amritsar, April 21, double, by 2024, its annual financing celebrations were scheduled to be 2021. Photo / Courtesy commitments to developing countries, celebrated at Bhai Gurdas Ji Nagar, New Ms Kaur said, "There was a lot of Vishal Kumar including a tripling of its adaptation Amritsar. But due to rise in Covid cases, enthusiasm among the sangat for the finance by 2024. The President made these ceremonies will now be held at the centenary celebrations but considering allowed. A series of events, scheduled at the new target announcements at a Diwan Hall of Gurdwara Sri Manji Sahib the prevailing situation due to the Gurdwara Guru Ka Mahal, CONTD ON PAGE 36 at Golden Temple complex, said SGPC pandemic, no large gathering could be CONTD ON PAGE 36 JURY FIND CHAUVIN GUILTY OF MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER IN FLOYD'S DEATH MINNEAPOLIS (TIP): Former Derek Chauvin was Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday, April 20, of convicted on Tuesday, April 20, of murder and murder and manslaughter for pinning manslaughter for George Floyd to the pavement with his pinning George Floyd knee on the Black man's neck in a case to the pavement with that triggered worldwide protests, his knee on the Black man's neck violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the US. CONTD ON PAGE 36 THE INDIAN PANORAMA EDITORIAL FRIDAY APRIL 23, 2021 YEARS 02 -: GUEST COMMENTS:- PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja VICE PRESIDENT: The Floyd verdict Chitagam Saluja Mindsets must change to rein in CHIEF EDITOR: Prof Indrajit S. Saluja police brutality, racism CONSULTING EDITOR : ine minutes and 29 seconds - that's Deepak Dwidedi, Chairman, how long Derek Chauvin, a White Bhaskar Group, Delhi Npolice officer, kept African- ASSISTANT EDITOR: American George Floyd pinned under his Bidisha Roy knee on a pavement in Minneapolis on SPL. REPORTER UNO: May 25 last year. Floyd was neither a H.S. Panaser terrorist nor a killer on the loose. All that GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: he was accused of was using a counterfeit Om Parkash Malik $20 note at a store. Yet, he was choked to DIRECTOR death by the cop, with his last words being ADMINISTRATION: a desperate plea: 'I can't breathe.' This Gauri Beri abominable act of police brutality and racism shamed America and gave a new CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: lease of life to the Black Lives Matter movement. On Tuesday, a federal grand Baldev Singh / BJ Videos Gunjesh Desai / Masala Junction jury found Chauvin guilty on all three George Floyd was choked to death by the cop Derek Chauvin, with his last words being a desperate plea: 'I can't breathe.' Jay Mandal, counts of Floyd's murder. Soon after the Mohammad Jaffer, verdict, President Joe Biden candidly which is aimed at bringing about police custodial deaths, fake encounters and SnapsIndia admitted that the killing had 'ripped the reforms in the US, but it is yet to be mob lynchings demonstrate blatant Mohammad Shahzad, blinders off for the whole world to see the adopted by the Senate. The biggest disregard for the rule of law. The Zia Khan, systemic racism' in the US. challenge is to catalyze a transformation frequent cases of instant justice point to Nisha Rani With Chauvin set to be imprisoned for in the hearts and minds of the law the dwindling trust in the judicial Vaaho Photographers, a long term, justice appears to have been enforcers as well as the ordinary people. system. The police-politician-criminal Vijay Shah - Photo Journalist. done in the Floyd case, and that too The recent massacre of Asian- nexus is taking its toll on the CORRESPONDENTS : within one year of the incident. But is it Americans in Indianapolis is a grim dispensation of justice. What's needed is SACRAMENTO: the beginning of a new dawn in reminder of the enormity of the task of earnest introspection, followed by Parminder S. Aujla America, which has a long history of changing mindsets. course correction, so as to create an NEW YORK : racial inequality and injustice? The The US case has lessons for India, environment in which every Floyd can Chitagam House of Representatives has passed the which is no stranger to police excesses breathe freely and fearlessly. FRESNO: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and sectarian intolerance. All the (Tribune, India) Tarlochan Singh DALLAS: Harjit Dhesi, Amarjit Dhillon OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENTS Exiting Afghanistan: On U.S. troop pullout LONDON y announcing that all U.S. troops Nirpal Singh Shergill would be pulled out of SPL CORRESPONDENT BAfghanistan by September 11, DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: President Joe Biden has effectively Chandan Singh upheld the spirit of the Trump-Taliban CHANDIGARH: deal, rather than defying it. In the Manjit Sidhu agreement between the Trump LUDHIANA: administration and the insurgents in A.S. Arora, February 2020, U.S. troops were R.P.Sharma scheduled to pull back by May 1, in JAIPUR : return for the Taliban's assurance that they would not let terrorist groups such Dr. Yashpaul Goyal as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State operate DALLAS BUREAU CHIEF & VP on Afghan soil. When Mr. Biden ordered Lovllien Kaurr a review of the U.S.'s Afghan strategy, 972-330-3139 there was speculation that he would [email protected] delay the pullout at least until there was The U.S. pullout without any settlement leaves the Taliban stronger The Indian Panorama a political settlement. But he chose an P.O. Box No. 190067, South orderly pullout - the remaining troops without the Taliban's participation and killings of journalists, activists and Richmond Hill, NY 11419, (officially 2,500) will start leaving what it would achieve even if it goes other civil society members opposed to Tel: 646-247-9458 Afghanistan on May 1, with a full through without the Taliban. the Taliban. This does not mean that the Email: withdrawal by September 11. Besides the This leaves the already shaky Ghani government is on the verge of collapse. [email protected] U.S. troops, the thousands of coalition government in an even more precarious The U.S. has promised that it would troops under the NATO's command are situation. After September, the continue remote assistance to the DISCLAIMER also expected to pull back along with the government will be left with itself on the government. The role of regional players Americans. Mr. Biden's push to revive battleground against the Taliban. For such as Russia, China and India, which THE INDIAN PANORAMA ASSUMES the peace talks between the Afghan now, Mr. Ghani has held together the have a shared interest in a stable NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CLAIMS MADE IN ADVERTISEMENTS. government and the Taliban has hit a powerful sections of the state and society Afghanistan, will also be crucial in WE ONLY SELL SPACE. VIEWS roadblock. A U.S.-initiated, UN-led against the Taliban at least in the deciding the country's future. But one PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER regional peace conference is scheduled provincial capitals. But once the thing is certain: the U.S., despite all its ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS AND to take place in Ankara, Turkey,on April Americans are gone, the balance of military might, has lost the war and its DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE 24. But the Taliban have made it clear power in the stalemated conflict could withdrawal, without any settlement or VIEWS OF THE NEWSPAPER. ALL that they will not participate in it and shift decisively in favor of the Taliban. even a peace road map, leaves the RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.