We Wish Our Readers A Happy Good Friday & A Happy Easter YEARS # 1 Indian American Weekly : Since 2006 VOL 15 ISSUE 14 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● APR 02 - APR 08, 2021 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 ● [email protected] www.theindianpanorama.news VAISAKHI SPECIAL EDITION President Biden Unveils What He Calls A ‘Once-In-A-Generation’ will bring out a special edition to mark VAISAKHI on April 9. Advertisements may please be booked by April 6, and articles for publication may please be Infrastructure Proposal submitted by April 5 to [email protected] The measure, called the American Jobs Plan, includes big infrastructure fixes John Kerry to visit New PITTSBURGH (TIP): President Biden on Wednesday, March 31, unveiled a sprawling, ambitious infrastructure Delhi, U.A.E and Dhaka proposal that, if enacted, would overhaul how Americans get Will hold consultations on from Point A to Point B, how their electricity is generated, the increasing climate ambition ahead speed of their Internet connections, the quality of their water and the physical makeup of their children's schools. of President Biden's Leaders The measure, called the American Jobs Plan, includes big Summit on Climate April 22-23 infrastructure fixes that both major parties - as well as a U.S. Climate majority of Americans - consistently say they want to see, Envoy John including upgrades to bridges, broadband and buildings. Kerry CONTD ON PAGE 2 File photo << President Joe Biden on March 31, unveiled the ambitious 2 trillion proposal to rebuild America - File photo / CNN WASHINGTON (TIP): The U.S.'s Special Presidential Envoy for Indian IT professionals likely PNB fraud: Warrant against Trump enters FB via Climate, John Kerry,will travel to New to benefit as Biden lets Trump Nirav Modi's sister, brother- daughter-in-law's Page, Delhi, Dhaka and Abu Dhabi during April 1-9, the State Department era H-1B visa ban expire in-law kept in abeyance kicked off again announced on Wednesday, April 31. WASHINGTON Purvi was arraigned as an accused SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Facebook The purpose of the travel is for (TIP): US President has kicked off former US President "consultations on increasing climate Joe Biden on in the case, where multiple Donald Trump for the second time from ambition ahead of President Biden's Thursday, April 1, chargesheets have been filed by the its platform as he tried to evade the ban Leaders Summit on Climate April 22- let the ban on ED and the Central Bureau of by posting an interview via a Facebook 23 and the 26th Conference of the foreign workers visa, H-1B, lapse as the Investigation (CBI) Page in the name of his daughter-in-law Parties (COP26) to the United Nations notification issued by his predecessor Lara Trump. Framework Convention on Climate Donald Trump expired, a move which is Fugitive Lara is married to Eric Frederick Change later this year," a State likely to benefit thousands of Indian IT diamond Trump, the third child and second son of merchant Department statement said. professionals. Amidst a national Nirav Modi- Donald Trump. Countries party to the 2015 Paris lockdown and the COVID-19 crisis, File Photo Facebook said in a statement to The Agreement on climate are expected to Trump in June last year issued a Verge on Wednesday, March 31, that the announce new Nationally Determined proclamation that suspended entry to company has removed content from CONTD ON PAGE 2 CONTD ON PAGE 27 Lara Trump's Facebook Page that NEW DELHI (TIP): A special PMLA featured former President Donald court on Thursday, April 1, kept in Trump speaking. abeyance the warrant issued against the "In line with the block we placed on sister and brother-in-law of fugitive Donald Trump's Facebook and diamond merchant Nirav Modi till Instagram accounts, further content further orders. posted in the voice of Donald Trump Modi's sister Purvi and her husband will be removed and result in additional Maiank Mehta had "turned approvers" limitations on the accounts," the in the USD 2 billion PNB fraud case, in company added. Lara later posted which Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi screenshots of emails that appear to be are the prime accused. The couple had from Facebook, saying that a video of approached the court in February for the interview was removed because it cancellation of non-bailable warrants featured "the voice of Donald Trump," CONTD ON PAGE 27 CONTD ON PAGE 27 THE INDIAN PANORAMA TURN PAGE FRIDAY APRIL 02, 2021 YEARS 02 CONTD FROM PAGE 1 starting to make. President Biden Unveils What He Calls A... "Don't get hung up on this concept that we need to find a way to PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: pay for it dollar for dollar because infrastructure is one of those The $2 trillion proposal includes: issues that pays for itself," said Zac Petkanas, a senior adviser to Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja ● $115 billion to repair and rebuild bridges, highways and roads. Invest in America, a progressive group formed in January that VICE PRESIDENT: ● $100 billion to expand high-speed broadband across the entire advocates for an expansive infrastructure package. Chitagam Saluja country. The Biden plan points to lots of potential job creation that would CHIEF EDITOR: ● $100 billion to upgrade and build new schools. generate tax payments and efficiencies, such as saving money in Prof Indrajit S. Saluja ● $100 billion to expand and improve power lines and spur a shift the power grid. But Republicans are certain to raise questions CONSULTING EDITOR : to clean energy. about those promises. Deepak Dwidedi, Chairman, Embedded within the plan are efforts to build out U.S. clean Seeking bipartisanship Bhaskar Group, Delhi energy infrastructure that, by itself, would rank as one of the most ASSISTANT EDITOR: ambitious initiatives ever by the federal government to lower the President Biden campaigned on restoring bipartisanship and Bidisha Roy country's greenhouse gas emissions, along with efforts to address unity but has increasingly made it clear that he views that SPL. REPORTER UNO: racial inequalities and advance the U.S. economy to compete with benchmark via the broader popularity of his proposals, not H.S. Panaser China. whether any Republican lawmakers actually vote for them. GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: That's if the measure is signed into law. As with the American Rescue Plan, the main immediate Om Parkash Malik Democrats have a slim House majority and control the Senate political question is whether any Republicans would support the DIRECTOR only because of Vice President Harris' tiebreaking vote. With proposal. Biden campaigned on restoring bipartisanship and ADMINISTRATION: Republicans already voicing concerns about the proposal's cost unity to Washington, D.C., but has increasingly made it clear that Gauri Beri and corporate tax hikes, Democrats may once again have to force he views that benchmark via the broader popularity of his major legislation through complicated Senate procedures that proposals, not whether any Republican lawmakers actually vote CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: could drastically narrow its scope. The party would also have to for them. stick together on a historically expensive effort that has some A bipartisan measure would eliminate the need to tailor details Baldev Singh / BJ Videos Gunjesh Desai / Masala Junction moderates balking, while some high-profile progressives call for to fit the nebulous rules of what can and cannot be considered in Jay Mandal, even higher spending levels. bills passed via the Senate's reconciliation rules, which bypass the Mohammad Jaffer, What Biden announced in Pittsburgh on Wednesday is the first chamber's filibuster procedures. SnapsIndia part of a larger plan to overhaul the economy. Additional Historically, spending is an area where Democrats and Mohammad Shahzad, proposals for spending on education, childcare and other social Republicans in Congress collaborated, and there is a widespread Zia Khan, programs the administration calls "human infrastructure" are acknowledgment now of a huge backlog that needs to be Nisha Rani expected in the coming weeks. addressed. Vaaho Photographers, Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., says what can make Vijay Shah - Photo Journalist. Addressing climate and racial inequities infrastructure an easier sell is that there's something tangible for CORRESPONDENTS : The initial package includes two environmental ideas Biden every lawmaker to tell their constituents about. SACRAMENTO: regularly talked about when running for president: creating a New "You get a bridge! And you get a bridge! And you get a bridge! Parminder S. Aujla Deal-inspired Climate Conservation Corps to work on And you get a road! And you get a hospital! It's the Oprah of NEW YORK : conservation projects and environmental justice efforts, as well as infrastructure," she said, adding that moderate Democrats may Chitagam catalyzing an irreversible shift from gasoline-powered to electric make a big show about demanding the spending be targeted, as FRESNO: vehicles. Republicans certainly will. "If people see that it is an advancement Tarlochan Singh Biden wants to spend billions on rebates and tax incentives to of infrastructure and not like a Christmas tree bill for every other DALLAS: encourage Americans to purchase electric vehicles, and he priority,I think that that will get a lot of traction." Harjit Dhesi, Amarjit Dhillon proposes paying for the transition of thousands of transit and Indeed, many Republicans are already making it clear that they school buses from diesel to electric. At the same time, he wants see Biden's infrastructure proposals as far too broad and far too OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENTS incentives for state and local governments to build electric vehicle expensive. LONDON charging stations to power those new cars and buses. "A transportation bill, I think, needs to be a transportation bill. Nirpal Singh Shergill Altogether, Biden is proposing $174 billion in spending on Not a Green New Deal.