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Tellis tale isn’t a tell-all; FBI affidavit charges him with unlawful retention of classified info, not espionage

TOI correspondent from Washington: The American think-tank community is in shock this week after the US justice department accused Ashley Tellis, a respected Indian-American scholar, of unlawful retention of national defense information and undocumented meetings with Chinese officials. Tellis, 64, a naturalized US citizen and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was…

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“Unprecedented, unjustified, and unlawful”: First major legal challenge hits Trump’s $100K H-1B visa overhaul

In what appears to be the first significant domestic legal pushback against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa overhaul, a coalition of unions, education professionals, and religious organisations has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the newly imposed $100,000 fee. The lawsuit, lodged in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that…

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MHA: National Socialist Council of Nagaland declared unlawful association; ban effective from September 28 | India News

NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs declared the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) along with all its factions, wings, and front organisations, as an unlawful association for five years. In a statement, the home ministry said that Khaplang was aligned with other unlawful associations like the ULFA(I), PREPAK, and PLA and also indulged…

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