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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday landed in Mumbai with a 125-member delegation of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and university representatives. The visit comes two and a half months after India and the United Kingdom signed a landmark free trade pact expected to double bilateral trade by 2030.Hours before departing for Mumbai, Starmer was asked…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sent an internal memo to the company’s staff stating that the chip maker will continue to sponsor H-1B visas and cover all associated costs. The development comes following President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing $100,000 annual fees on H-1B visas. In the memo, Huang writes that “Immigration is at the…
US Senators Charles Grassley and Richard J. Durbin recently sent a formal letter to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO Krithi Krithivasan, questioning the company’s decision to hire thousands of H-1B visa workers while simultaneously conducting “massive layoffs” globally. The letter, dated September 24, 2025, raises concerns about “troubling employment trends” in the tech industry.The Senators…
Tighter US immigration rules are making Indian families think twice before arranging marriages with relatives living in the United States, matchmakers and experts say.Sidhi Sharma, a 19-year-old medical student from Haryana, had hoped to marry an Indian citizen with a high-paying US job, but abandoned the idea after recent headlines about President Donald Trump’s immigration…
The Trump administration’s stricter H-1B visa requirements are creating opportunities for technology companies outside the US, as international tech hubs position themselves to attract top-tier engineering talent previously bound for Silicon Valley, a report has said, citing senior employees of various UK and Canada-based tech startups.Last month, the White House unveiled significant changes to the…
Dubai real estate firms are targeting Indian investors during the festive period, offering special Diwali promotions and property exhibitions to attract buyers from primary and secondary cities, as property values in Indian metropolitan areas continue to surge.“Over the last few years, property prices in India have increased significantly, especially for new launches in metro cities…
MUMBAI: RBI‘s move to get merchants to store tokens instead of card data since 2022 has cut down frauds and improved transaction success rates. Now, allowing alternatives to one-time passwords (OTP) for authentication is expected to make the system more efficient. Speaking to TOI, Visa’s head of products and innovation for South Asia, Ramakrishna Gopalan,…
An Indian student was rejected for a US visa and the rejection letter claimed that he did not have enough strong tie that would compel him to return to India after his stay in the US. An Indian student recently received a visa rejection letter from the US that said they were not convinced that…
US President Donald Trump passed an executive order increasing the H-1B visa fees last month. After the revised regulation the H-1B visa fee for fresh application stands at $100,000. Now, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has voiced his support from Trump’s proposal to impose $1,00,000 fee. Speaking on the BG2 Pod last week, Huang called the…
Business groups have raised concerns over US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications, warning that the move could hurt the US economy. They also called on the administration to avoid changing the skilled worker program that would add even more burden to companies.In a letter to Donald Trump…
