Category: Events

The US State Department paused immigrant visa processing for 75 countries to crack down on applicants deemed likely to become a public charge.A State Department memo, seen first by Fox News Digital, directed consular officers to refuse visas under existing law while the department reassessed screening and vetting procedures. US Issues Blunt Warning To Indian...

The TOI correspondent from Washington: Universities often like to think of themselves as marketplaces of ideas. At the University of Colorado, Boulder, that marketplace briefly became a battleground over aromas, ending with a $200,000 settlement, two Indian PhD students exiled from campus for life, and a cautionary tale about what happens when cultural sensitivity collides...

India vs New Zealand (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) NEW DELHI: New Zealand outplayed India on Indian conditions as Daryl Mitchell’s unbeaten 131 overshadowed KL Rahul’s fighting century to secure a seven-wicket win in the second ODI at the Niranjan Shah Stadium on Wednesday, levelling the three-match series 1-1.Chasing 285, the visitors finished at 286 for three...

Mohammad Rizwan. Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan found himself at the centre of a debate after he was asked to retire out during a Big Bash League (BBL) match between Melbourne Renegades and Sydney Thunder. The decision, taken by Renegades captain Will Sutherland, came after Rizwan scored 26 off 23 balls, an innings that again brought...

A case has been registered after the Block Development Office (BDO) in Farakka, Murshidabad, was allegedly ransacked by a group of unidentified men on Monday afternoon, leaving a poll official injured. BJP MLA Gouri Sankar accused the ruling TMC Farakka MLA Manirul Islam of leading the vandalism caused at the government property.In a sharp attack,...

US Supreme Court holds off ruling on tariff policy for another day The US Supreme Court on Wednesday issued three decisions but did not deliver a verdict on the closely watched legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, keeping markets and governments waiting for clarity on a case with wide economic implications.As per news...

As US President Donald Trump mulled his next move on Iran, his administration received a detailed dossier naming 50 high-value military targets—complete with coordinates—mapping the very machinery Tehran allegedly uses to crush its own protesters.Compiled by a Washington watchdog group, the document landed just hours before high-stakes security meetings, oanisation exclusively told Daily Mail. US...

Amid all the flak aviation regulator DGCA has drawn for its handling of last month’s IndiGo crisis, the role of another regulator – Competition Commission of India – has gone relatively unnoticed. CCI was set up to promote and sustain competition in markets, and is tasked with curbing anti-competitive practices across sectors. It is CCI’s...

NEW DELHI: The United States has decided to freeze visa processing indefinitely for citizens of 75 countries, including Iran, Russia, Somalia and Afghanistan, in what is being described as one of the Trump administration’s most far-reaching immigration enforcement measures, according to a Fox News Digital report.The US State Department will suspend visa processing beginning January...

Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday held talks with external affairs minister S Jaishankar. EAM Jaishankar noted that the exchange focused on recent developments amid escalating tensions in Iran.“Received a call from Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi. We discussed the evolving situation in and around Iran,” Jaishankar wrote on X.Earlier today, India...