With the current ongoing situation with COVID-19, Physical Therapist Bidur Mukherjee is sharing his real-life experience at the frontlines of managing patient care at the local hospital in Las Vegas. March 20, 2020,  Directly from the frontlines (Part 1) I am a healthcare worker in a US hospital directly involved in the care of patients including those with COVID-19 positive. There are hundreds of thousands of workers like me. In the following few passages, let me share some of my experiences with you. Hospitals are never the most pleasant placeRead More

Las Vegas Sun and the Nevada State Education Association are pleased to announce their 2020 primary election endorsement for Swadeep Nigam, Candidate for Regent, University System The Sun editorial noted, “Of the two seats that will be on the ballot, the Sun will offer an endorsement on only one: Nigam in District 3. Nigam is a financial analyst who has served on the Nevada Equal Rights Commission and numerous other boards, including the Las Vegas chapter of the NAACP. He is exactly the kind of person who should be on theRead More

Las Vegas Sikh Community is pleased to announce a successful vegetarian lunch give away to help the community during the current pandemic situation. Over 450 cars drove through the parking lot of Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh on Saturday, May 9th followed by over 200 cars at the Gurudwara Guru Nanak on Thursday, May 14th.  Gurudwara Baba Deep Singh volunteers handed over 1300 lunch boxes consisting of freshly prepared vegetarian food.  The lunch box included a samosa, rice pulao, garbanzo curry, and matar paneer, along with a gallon of bottled water, and couple ofRead More

Jaiden Reddy, son of Drs. Tina and Ravi Reddy and a Junior at Ed W. Clark High School earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36 with a perfect 36 on each section. Fewer than half of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2019, only 4,879 out of nearly 1.8 million students who took the ACT earned a top composite score of 36. The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading, and science, each scored onRead More

Indian-American UNLV School of Medicine Physician, Dr. Rooman Ahad offers tips and resources for parents of children with ASD. Many parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carefully craft their child’s schedule to smooth out transitions and give them plenty of physical activity so they can thrive in school.  But the limited social interactions and upended schedules that are defining COVID-19 quarantines have disrupted those strategies, according to Dr. Rooman Ahad, a pediatric neurologist at the UNLV School of Medicine.  “Parents of autistic children are generally prepared. They come with the right snacks;Read More