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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that the per-country limit in EB-2 category for India has been exhausted for the fiscal year (FY) 2026. In its announcement, the DHS directed all embassies and consulates to no longer issue EB-2 visas to Indian applicants for the rest of the current fiscal year. As...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday said it is in touch with the United States regarding a Section 301 investigation linked to concerns over forced labour and excess industrial capacity.Earlier, the Office of the United States trade representative (USTR) named India among countries it believes follow unfair trade practices. Based on its findings, the USTR...

FILE (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) Microsoft has announced that three of India’s biggest IT companies — Infosys, TCS and Wipro — have each scaled their Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses to over 100,000 employees, taking the collective commitment past 300,000 seats in under six months. The milestone is said to mark one of the largest and...

Uber has set usage caps on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools like Claude, Cursor used by its employees. According to a Bloomberg report, the ride-hailing firm exceeded its AI budget earlier this year and the latest move is aimed to manage the rising costs. “We think this is all a pretty straightforward way to responsibly encourage...

Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday appeared headed for a major internal crisis as MLAs entering the state assembly did not dismiss the rumours that over 50 legislators had thrown their weight behind an MLA, who may lead the new faction of the Mamata Banerjee-founded party.On nomination of West Bengal Assembly...

India and the United States may be 99% closer to signing the BTA, but a new proposal from Washington suggests that the trade story isn’t quite finished yet. The United States Trade Representative (USTR) on Wednesday named India among countries that could face additional tariffs over concerns about preventing goods linked to forced labour from...

Henry Nowak and Vickrum Digwa (R) A video widely circulating on social media shows British police handcuffing a dying teenager after he was stabbed by an Indian-origin Sikh man who falsely claimed he had been racially abused by the victim.The victim, 18-year-old Henry Nowak, was in a vulnerable condition and repeatedly tried to tell officers...

Image Credit: Jatin Surya Kumar/TNN NEW DELHI: At least 10 people have died after a fire broke out at a restaurant in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area on Wednesday morning, officials said.The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said it received a call about the blaze at 09:45 local time and dispatched multiple fire tenders to the...

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: When will Vaibhav Sooryavanshi make his India debut? When will the 15-year-old don the senior India jersey? Could he find a place in the squad for the upcoming T20Is against Ireland?Those questions have dominated discussions ever since the teenage batting sensation took the cricketing world by storm.Sooryavanshi played...

BJP shares AI video mocking DK Shivakumar ahead of Karnataka swearing-in (Image- BJP Karnataka X) Ahead of Congress leader DK Shivakumar‘s oath-taking ceremony as Karnataka chief minister on Wednesday, the BJP launched a sharp attack on the Congress government through a series of posts on X, criticising and alleging failures in governance.In an AI-generated video...