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American CEO says: US Immigration authority needs to have an interactive H-1B visa dashboard updated weekly, as the distortion that fuels anti-STEM, anti-Indian, and anti-immigrant sentiment is …

American CEO James Blunt has called on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to introduce a regularly updated public dashboard tracking H-1B visa data. In a post shared on social media, James Blunt said better transparency around H-1B approvals, extensions and transfers could improve public understanding of the visa system and reduce misinformation….

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UK MP says US report on rise in anti-Indian hate online ‘deeply concerning’

Bob Blackman (File photo) LONDON: British MP Bob Blackman has described research by an independent non-profit research organisation in the US, which found that anti-Indian rhetoric surged online last year, as “deeply concerning”.Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which specialises in tracking extremism and misinformation on social media, found that anti-Indian rhetoric on X tripled in…

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Indian-Americans claim they flipped a deep red seat in Texas because of MAGA’s anti-Indian rhetoric

The TOI correspondent from Washington: In a political shock that has rattled Washington, Democrats in deep red Texas flipped a state senate seat in a district that voted +17 for Donald Trump, amid claims from some Indian-Americans that they triggered the turnaround because of toxic MAGA attacks on the community.Taylor Rehmet, a US Air Force…

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