A report claims that the $100,000 fee did not impact the H-1B visa numbers, as half of the H-1B applicants are already in the US on some other visas and they don’t have to pay the fee if they are selected. The Center for Immigration Studies claimed in a report that the $100,000 fee for…
Union home minister Amit Shah (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday declared that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would implement the RSS and his party’s ambitious Uniform Civil Code (UCC) once they are voted to power in high-stakes West Bengal elections.Shah, who has pulled out all the stops ahead of…
Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin may have stepped away from international cricket and the Indian Premier League, but he remains closely connected to the game through commentary and his growing presence as a digital analyst. From pre-match breakdowns to post-match reviews on his YouTube channel, Ashwin continues to offer detailed insights, often becoming part of…
NEW DELHI: Domestic companies have outpaced MNCs in rewarding women leaders at the top with more female C-suite executives entering the million-dollar compensation league as India Inc sharpens its focus on diversity and professional talent.Nine women leaders are now part of the elite club of CXOs earning over a million dollars, up from seven two…
Romanch Mahajan, Indian teen killed in horse carriage at Central Park in New York (AP) NEW DELHI: A proposed New York City bill aimed at phasing out horse-drawn carriages has been renamed in honour of 18-year-old Indian national Romanch Mahajan, who died last week after suffering critical injuries in a horse carriage accident at Central…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says his AI lab clawed its way back to the frontier over the past two to three years by doing something counterintuitive for a unit inside a $2 trillion company—acting like a startup. Speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings, Hassabis described a deliberate cultural and structural reset after…
(L) Victim Surya, R Accused Asad GHAZIABAD: The prime accused in the fatal stabbing of a Class 11 student in Ghaziabad was shot dead in a police encounter late on Saturday night.Officials said the accused, Asad, was wanted in connection with the killing of 17-year-old Surya Pratap, who was stabbed during an altercation in Khoda…
HYDERABAD: The family of Arun Kumar Tiwari, 53, a Hyderabad-based tech professional who died near the Hillary Step while descending Mount Everest last week, has decided to leave his body on the mountain, citing faith, his love for the Himalayas, and the near-impossible task of recovery from the “death zone”.Pioneer Adventure, which handled the Indian…
Michel de Montaigne (Image: Wikipedia) Some lines refuse to age. This one is more than 400 years old, yet it still turns up at weddings, in films and in late-night arguments between couples. A French thinker named Michel de Montaigne wrote it long before anyone had heard of dating apps or divorce lawyers. He compared…
JALANDHAR: A 19-year-old youth of Punjabi origin has been arrested for allegedly killing his parents and maternal grandmother in the US, just months after the family visited their native village of Lakhpur, near Banga in Nawanshahr district.Gaurav Chopra is accused of shooting his father, Sweeta Ram, 56; his mother, Kamlesh Rani, 46; and his maternal…