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Gujarat Titans (ANI Photo) Gujarat Titans (GT) enter IPL 2026 with a strategy of continuity, having retained 20 players from the squad that finished third in 2025. The Titans have maintained one of the most stable rosters in the league, focusing on “sharpening the edges” rather than making major overhauls.GT made their IPL debut in…
Airports are places of waiting. Passengers sit beneath departure boards, watching cities flicker past in rows of glowing letters. Flights are delayed, gates change, and journeys unfold slowly, one boarding call at a time.But for Sujoy Kumar Mitra, for 5 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes, airports were something else entirely. They were checkpoints in…
West Indies’ Jason Holder (AP Photo/Bikas Das) Jason Holder etched his name into cricket history as West Indies began their T20 World Cup 2026 campaign with a memorable win over Scotland. The former captain became the first West Indies bowler to claim 100 T20I wickets, reaching the landmark in the 13.2 over when he dismissed…
Meet the Alpine Salamander: Nature’s record holder for longest pregnancy (Image source: Wikipedia) If you’re looking for the animal with the longest pregnancy on Earth, don’t think of whales or elephants. It’s actually the Alpine salamander. It is a small, dark amphibian tucked away in the high mountains of Europe. This little creature is a…
An Indian H-1B visa holder shared a ‘stressful and unexpected’ experience where the person was sent back to India from Abu Dhabi preclearance despite having a valid visa. Going by the account shared on an NRI social media group, the person faced no immigration hiccups at Hyderabad, where all documents were thoroughly checked. But in…
A green card applicant was detained by the ICE agents because he missed a piece of mail from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services during a recent move.Allan Dabrio Marrero, who is married to a US citizen, Matthew Marrero, and used to live in the Cayman Islands, was detained by ICE agents last week at…
An H-1B visa holder from India has sued his US company, led by an Indian-origin CEO, for forced labor. Amrutesh Vallabhaneni, an H-1B visa holder in the US, has brought a lawsuit against his employer, accusing the company of forced labor, labor trafficking and withholding visa documents, Breitbart News reported. Jay Palmer, Vallabhaneni’s consultant who…
Elon Musk’s position on the H-1B visa programme reflects a complex interplay of personal experience, corporate imperatives, and public statements that often appear contradictory. Musk himself entered the United States on an H-1B visa, a fact he credits with enabling his entrepreneurial journey and the growth of companies such as Tesla and SpaceX. While he…
A Bloomberg report places India at the top among nations with approved H-1B visa applications from 2020 to 2023, with 232,974 approvals, representing nearly 73.7% of all H-1B visas granted. Complementing this, a Pew Research report shows that US immigration surged by 1.6 million in 2023, the largest increase in more than two decades, with…
