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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...

The Madras High Court began its hearing on the ‘Jana Nayagan’ censorship controversy, focusing on whether the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) followed the statutory procedure while issuing and later withdrawing certification for the film. The case hinges on a key issue: whether the board’s communication on January 5, stating that the film was...

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, Deputy CM Shivakumar NEW DELHI: The ongoing tension over the Karnataka chief minister‘s post resurfaced on Tuesday after DK Shivakumar’s brother said Rahul Gandhi had assured the deputy chief minister that a decision would be taken at an appropriate time.Former MP DK Suresh described Shivakumar as a committed party functionary and said...

Saina Nehwal (Getty Images) Saina Nehwal and Sania Mirza can be safely termed as two of the most recognisable faces of female sportspersons in India. Many came before them and many after, but the credit of popularising two widely followed racquet sports in India, especially among girls, goes to these two world beaters.Go Beyond The...

Bill Gates’ charitable foundation, Gates Foundation Trust holds hundreds of millions of dollars in fossil fuel extractors, said Guardian. The trust invested $254m in companies that extract fossil fuels such as Chevron, BP and Shell, according to end-of-year filings as quoted in the report. The investment marked a nine year high and was 21% up...

Russia on Tuesday made crucial statements on Greenland, Iran, US and Nato amid the ongoing geopolitical tensions with the Western nations over Ukraine war.Dismissing the US president Donald Trump’s charges that Greenland had a looming threat from Russia and China, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said that the nation had “no interest” in interfering in...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday changed his long-standing stance on Nobel Prize, and said that he “did not care” about the peace prize. This comes only a day after he wrote to the Norway PM in which he had that said he no longer felt bound to “think purely of Peace” on Greenland after...

Greater Noida police arrested Abhay Kumar, builder of MZ Wishtown, in connection with the death of software engineer Yuvraj Mehta GREATER NOIDA: Police on Tuesday arrested Abhay Kumar, the builder and owner of MZ Wiztown, in connection with the death of 27-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta.Abhay Kumar, director of Wiztown Planners Private Limited, was arrested...

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: A video claiming that the Indore crowd shouted “Gautam Gambhir haaye haaye” after the third ODI against New Zealand has gone viral on social media, but the claim is misleading. The clip shows Virat Kohli reacting during the post-match presentation at the Holkar Stadium, and...