YEARS # 1 Indian American Weekly : Since 2006 VOL 15 ISSUE 32 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● AUG 06 - 12, 2021 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 ● [email protected] www.theindianpanorama.news A real ‘Chak De’ moment for India celebrates the 75th Independence Day Indian hockey: Men’s team wins on August 15,2021. To commemorate the historic Olympic medal after 41 years event, we are bringing out a profusely illustrated special A SWEET GIFT TO INDIA DAYS BEFORE 75TH INDEPENDENCE DAY edition. Besides the commissioned TOKYO (TIP): Determined to clinch articles, we invite readers to a medal, the Indians made one of the contribute. Please send in most memorable comebacks in the your articles by history of the game, fighting back from August 10, 2021 to a two-goal deficit to turn the match in [email protected]. their favor. There were tears and hugs on the field Advertising space may please as the Indians led by Manpreet Singh be booked by August 10, 2021 and coached by Australian Graham Reid at [email protected] savored the historic moment. For more information, It is India's third hockey bronze medal please visit in the history of the Olympics. www.theindianpanorama.news CONTD ON PAGE 42 For all inquiries, please A resolute Indian men's hockey team call 646-247-9458 << rewrote history as it claimed an Olympic medal after 41 years, defeating a plucky or email to Germany 5-4 to win the bronze in an edge- [email protected] of-the-seat play-off match of the ongoing Games here on Thursday, August 5 CENTRE UNABLE TO Calls to resign grow even as a defiant DELTA VARIANT NOW SUPPLY ENOUGH REPORTED IN 135 VACCINES: NOBEL Cuomo denies allegations COUNTRIES, GLOBAL LAUREATE ABHIJIT PRESIDENT, LAWMAKERS CALL FOR CUOMO'S RESIGNATION COVID-19 CASES COULD BANERJEE OVER SEXUAL HARASSMENT REPORT EXCEED 200 MILLION BY West Bengal has effectively used WASHINGTON / NEW YORK(TIP): U.S. President Joe Biden, along with NEXT WEEK: WHO the vaccines supplied by the lawmakers in the House and Senate, on Centre, economist says Tuesday, August 3, called for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to step down following the release of an investigative report alleging he sexually harassed and otherwise engaged in inappropriate behavior with 11 women. Photo for representational purpose only. Earlier in the day, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report, Calls are growing for New York Governor UNITED NATIONS (TIP): The the result of an almost five-month, Andrew Cuomo to resign after an highly transmissible Delta variant of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at independent investigation found he had a meeting with Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee independent investigation, on the sexual Covid-19 has now been reported in 135 sexually harassed 11 women. in Kolkata on August 5, 2021. - Photo / PTI harassment allegations against the countries, according to the World Health governor that concluded Cuomo had reporter asked about his March comments Organisation which said the cumulative KOLKATA (TIP): West Bengal Chief engaged in the inappropriate behavior.1 during a press briefing on COVID-19 number of coronavirus cases reported Minister Mamata Banerjee on The alleged victims of Cuomo's vaccination efforts, Biden stood by them.3 globally could exceed 200 million by Thursday, August 5, met Nobel laureate harassment included his staff members Following yet another question about next week. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and discussed and other women who worked for the Cuomo, the president addressed his March The Covid-19 Weekly Epidemiological India's management of the COVID-19 state, and members of the public he comments again. "What I said was if the Update dated August 3, released by pandemic with him. Mr. Banerjee, who encountered.2 investigation by the attorney general WHO, said globally 132 countries have is a member of West Bengal's COVID-19 In March, Biden had said that if the concluded that the allegations were correct, reported cases of the Beta variant and management committee, said that his investigation confirmed the allegations, he back in March, I would recommend he 81 countries of the Gamma variant. CONTD ON PAGE 42 thought Cuomo should resign. When a resign. CONTD ON PAGE 41 CONTD ON PAGE 42 PEGASUS ALLEGATIONS SERIOUS IF TRUE: SUPREME COURT OF INDIA; AGREES TO HEAR PETITIONS SEEKING PROBE ON AUG 10 NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on The Supreme Court on Thursday,August 5, agreed to hear a bunch of petitions Thursday, August 5, agreed to seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the Pegasus hear a bunch of petitions snooping controversy on August 10 as it asked the seeking a court-monitored SIT petitioners to serve copies of their respective petitions probe into the Pegasus snooping controversy on August 10 on the Centre. CONTD ON PAGE 41 THE INDIAN PANORAMA EDITORIAL FRIDAY AUGUST 6, 2021 YEARS 02 -: GUEST COMMENT :- PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja VICE PRESIDENT: Pandemic of distrust: On resisting Chitagam Saluja CHIEF EDITOR: COVID-19 vaccination Prof Indrajit S. Saluja CONSULTING EDITOR : Deepak Dwidedi, Chairman, THOSE RESISTING VACCINATION MOSTLY CONFORM TO A SPECIFIC SOCIAL, Bhaskar Group, Delhi ASSISTANT EDITOR: CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL PROFILE Bidisha Roy SPL. REPORTER UNO: resident Joe Biden and the 2021, enough to cover 400m people. Using and includes minorities such as African H.S. Panaser director of the CDC warned this everything from consistent high-level Americans, and Latino Americans. GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Pweek that the COVID-19 crisis in messaging by the President and his team Regardless of the reasons for resisting, Om Parkash Malik the U.S. was becoming a "pandemic of to get vaccinated, to lottery tickets and the statistics paint a grim picture, of DIRECTOR the unvaccinated". This underscores the cash gifts offered by local and State 95% or higher of COVID-19 ADMINISTRATION: growing divergence across U.S. States governments to those willing to step and hospitalizations and deaths being of Gauri Beri and communities in terms of the get a shot, the country has powered unvaccinated people; and of the highest prevalence and intensity of the Delta through to the point where 193 million toll affecting States with lower-than- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: variant infection, depending on the Americans have received at least one average vaccination rates, including the extent to which these cohorts had been dose, and at least 165 million people have likes of Florida and Texas. The Biden Baldev Singh / BJ Videos Gunjesh Desai / Masala Junction vaccinated. Approximately 30% of the received all the required doses. administration has an unenviable, multi- Jay Mandal, adult population has yet to be Yet, it is now increasingly clear that pronged task at hand. On the one hand, it Mohammad Jaffer, vaccinated, along with 58% of those in there are two cohorts of adults resisting must continue to put out facts and data SnapsIndia the 12-17 years age group. The country vaccines: the first, who are averse to as well as advocacy messaging for ever- Mohammad Shahzad, has reached this troubling impasse getting vaccinated in all circumstances - widening vaccine reach, and this Zia Khan, despite a strong start. To date, 348 preponderantly those who are rural, includes working alongside social media Nisha Rani million doses have been given so far. This white, politically conservative, and platforms to clamp down on rampant Vaaho Photographers, came on the back of the firm evangelical Christian, according to misinformation. On the other hand, it Vijay Shah - Photo Journalist. commitment by the Biden surveys; and the second that are open to needs to avoid succumbing to any and all CORRESPONDENTS : administration to follow the science in considering getting vaccinated but pressures to relax precautions, for SACRAMENTO: the tackling of the pandemic, and would like to wait for some time before example the disastrous - and now Parminder S. Aujla quickly secure pledges from vaccine committing to it. The second cohort is, reversed - guidance supplied by the CDC NEW YORK : manufacturers - including Pfizer, like the first, mixed to an extent, but on May 13 to the effect that people need Chitagam Moderna and Johnson & Johnson - to primarily consists of a diverse urban not wear masks if they had been FRESNO: supply 700m doses by the end of July group, younger in age, often Democratic, vaccinated. (The Hindu) Tarlochan Singh DALLAS: Harjit Dhesi, Amarjit Dhillon OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENTS Pegasus controversy LONDON Nirpal Singh Shergill BIHAR CM NITISH KUMAR BREAKS RANKS TO DEMAND PROBE SPL CORRESPONDENT DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: ith the Supreme Court set to Parliament, prompting PM Modi to slam may well be on the defensive, but the Chandan Singh hear the pleas seeking a court- the Opposition for its conduct. attempts at stone-walling the Opposition CHANDIGARH: Wmonitored probe into the Ever since the revelation about the have not helped matters either. In fact, Manjit Sidhu Pegasus snooping row on Thursday, a phone-tapping incident was made, there the meetings of the parliamentary panel LUDHIANA: new dimension has been added to the have been demands for an inquiry. The on information technology have seen A.S. Arora, controversy.Bihar Chief Minister Nitish demand was earlier raised by TMC chief BJP members boycott the proceedings R.P.Sharma Kumar, an ally of the BJP-led NDA and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata and spar with the chairman who is from JAIPUR : government at the Centre, has lent his Banerjee who called for an all-party the Congress. weight to the demand for a probe. The meeting on the issue. West Bengal even Allegations of surveillance remain a Dr. Yashpaul Goyal Bihar CM asked the Opposition to put constituted a commission to probe the matter of concern as it is as much about DALLAS BUREAU CHIEF & VP pressure by placing the relevant facts controversy.