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High vs. low floors: How city choice influences H-1B pay and career leverage On 20th January last year, when Donald Trump was sworn back into office, the H-1B programme entered a period of deliberate ambiguity. Within months, familiar fault lines reopened: renewed scrutiny of employer filings, sharper compliance signals from federal agencies, revived debate around…
In a major milestone for regional Indian cinema, Marathi feature film Dashavatar, which stars Dilip Prabhavalkar, Priyadarshini Indalkar, Sidhharth Menon, Mahesh Manjrekar among others, has been officially selected in the Oscar Contention List for the upcoming Academy Awards. The selection places the film among a highly exclusive group of global titles being considered for the…
GURGAON: On Wednesday, the Union environment ministry (MoEF) announced it would look to further reduce permissible mining area in the Aravalis. However, exactly a week before that, on Dec 17, it had moved forward to operationalise a new 100m definition of Aravalis – which has drawn all-round protests – by instructing Survey of India (SoI)…
Kolkata’s new East-West Metro, the Green Line, has revolutionized city travel with its groundbreaking underwater tunnel beneath the Hooghly River KOLKATA: Imagine slipping beneath a great river in the comfort of an air-conditioned metro cutting hours of travel into minutes and reshaping the daily rhythm of a city. This is now part of everyday life…
If luxury had a starting point in Indian fashion, the Banarasi saree would be right there. Born in Varanasi and shaped during the Mughal era, Banarasi sarees are all about richness. Heavy silk. Intricate brocade. Motifs inspired by gardens, flowers, and architecture. And that unmistakable gold and silver zari that catches light like nothing else….
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Friday put traditional medicine at the centre of global health conversation, flagging launch of Traditional Medicine Global Library (TMGL) as a shared international platform to anchor ayurveda, yoga & other ancient systems in research, policy and evidence-based care.Addressing the closing ceremony of the Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine…
The government plans to incentivise states and districts to work closely with industry to identify and address local skill gaps, adopting a hyper-local approach to build a future-ready workforce, a senior official told PTI on Monday.Addressing the CII Smart Manufacturing Summit 2025, Secretary in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Debashree Mukherjee said the…
The February 2026 Bangladeshi general election is no ordinary democratic exercise; it is a vote on the country’s political future and a crucial deciding point for India’s regional security. The street-led “Monsoon Revolution” of August 2024, which ended the 15-year rule of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, created a political vacuum that has fundamentally altered the…
AI-generated image (ChatGPT) Nepal has awarded a contract to a Chinese state-owned security printing firm to produce new banknotes across multiple denominations, a central bank official confirmed on Sunday.Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has selected China Bank Note Printing and Minting Corporation to design, print and supply notes of NRs 50, NRs 500 and NRs 1,000,…
NEW DELHI: A routine drive turned into a near-fatal ordeal for Rajan Sahni, a resident of Old Rajendra Nagar, after his navigation app led him into a swamp on Wednesday. Sahni, who was travelling with his brother, said he was on his way to visit his friend, Govind, near Pihani Chungi in New Civil Lines…
