Texas governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered state agencies and public universities to halt new H-1B visa hiring.This marks a major setback for foreign professionals seeking to work in US, especially in the Red state.In a letter sent to agency heads, Abbott directed all state bodies to immediately freeze new H-1B petitions, citing ‘abuse’ of…
MUMBAI: Monitoring the end-use of IPO proceeds is set to become more stringent, with the regulator likely to allow rating agencies to directly update stock exchanges with data on compliance with end-use norms by the companies.Currently, Sebi mandates equity issuers to appoint a credit rating agency to monitor most equity issues, excluding offer-for-sale where the…
NEW DELHI: Security agencies have flagged a sophisticated “crypto hawala” network allegedly being used to bypass the country’s financial safeguards to funnel untraceable foreign funds into Jammu and Kashmir, raising concerns that the money is being used to finance terror activities in the Union territory, officials said on Sunday.The development has put the security establishment…
CM Mamata Banerjee urges CJI to save democracy, stop agencies from defaming citizens JALPAIGURI/KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday made a fervent appeal to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to safeguard democracy and ensure that agencies do not defame citizens. “Nobody is above you,” Banerjee told the CJI during the inauguration of the…
JALPAIGURI/KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday made a fervent appeal to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant to safeguard democracy and ensure that investigative agencies do not defame citizens.“Our safety, security, history, geography, and boundaries must all be protected. The media should not conduct trials before cases are finalised… We are under…
NEW DELHI: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the permanent building for the Calcutta high court’s circuit bench in Jalpaiguri. She also urged CJI Surya Kant to protect the people of the country who are “wrongly targeted by the agencies,” news agency PTI reported.Remarking the justice Kant’s position as the ‘guardian of the Constitution’ who was…
Israel is set to immediately sever all contact with several United Nations agencies and international bodies following a review conducted after the United States’ withdrawal from dozens of international organisations. The move, Jerusalem said, was prompted by what it described as persistent bias, politicisation, and actions hostile to Israel by the affected bodies. Trump Pulls…
NEW DELHI: Security agencies in Meghalaya on Sunday rejected claims by the Bangladesh Police that the killers of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi had entered the state. They termed the allegations as unfounded and misleading.“There is no evidence to suggest that any individual crossed the international border from the Haluaghat sector into Meghalaya. The BSF…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies are alarmed and closely monitoring the expansion of terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Satellite imagery and photographs reveal the construction of a new “dual-use facility” in the Neelum Valley district.Since November, LeT accelerated the infrastructure build-up of the new centre, named “Jamia Masjid Ibn Taymiyah wa Markaz,” being erected in…
Australian authorities have identified one of the alleged gunmen involved in the deadly Bondi Beach shooting as Naveed Akram, a man from Sydney’s south-west, as investigations continue into the attack that left at least 12 people dead.A senior law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told ABC News that Akram’s residence in Bonnyrigg was…