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The TOI correspondent from Washington: A coalition of 20 US states led by Democratic attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging the Trump administration’s controversial $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, claiming the policy exceeds presidential authority and threatens US labor markets and critical services. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court...

Ayesha Curry and Stephen Curry (Image via: stephencurry30/ Instagram) Ayesha Curry has quietly made a name for herself with her business ventures, much like her NBA superstar husband, Stephen Curry, who remains an offensive powerhouse on the court despite standing tall at 6 feet 2 inches. The couple has set the bar high when it...

BENGALURU: An SUV belonging to a former Karnataka minister fatally mowed down a 23-year-old factory worker near Magadi, about 55km from Bengaluru, close to Thursday midnight.Family members of the deceased, Rajesh BG, alleged that senior Congress leader HM Revanna’s son Shashank was driving the SUV. However, by late Friday, Revanna claimed a family driver, identified...

Lionel Messi (AP Photo/Bikas Das) Former Indian football captain Bhaichung Bhutia criticised VIP culture at Lionel Messi‘s Kolkata event, where genuine fans were unable to see the football star due to unwanted VIP presence. The GOAT Tour’s Kolkata leg on Saturday turned chaotic at Salt Lake Stadium when fans who purchased expensive tickets began throwing...

KARWAR: More than 30 houses developed cracks, windows and doors rattled in a cluster of villages following an explosion near Indian Navy’s ammunition storage facility in Uttara Kannada district around Thursday noon.The blast sent out thick plumes of smoke and caused alarm in Alageri, Mavina Keri, and surrounding villages of Ankola in the district. Residents...

Argentine footballer Lionel Messi with West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas, right (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) An investigation has been ordered into the chaotic events during Lionel Messi‘s GOAT Tour event at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium, as announced by West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas.“The government has ordered to investigate this matter. An investigation is going...

Former Bihar chief minister and RJD leader Rabri Devi (PTI) NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday opposed former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi’s request to transfer criminal cases from the court of Special Judge Vishal Gogne, arguing before a Delhi court that the plea amounted to “forum-shopping” and was meant to “demean...

NEW DLEHI: Senior CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat has written to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her intervention over the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to withdraw charges against the accused in the 2015 Dadri mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq, PTI reported.In her letter on Saturday, Karat called the withdrawal a “politically motivated” step and raised concerns over...

NEW DELHI: With air quality worsening sharply across the Delhi-NCR, authorities on Saturday invoked the strictest restrictions under Stage IV of the Graded Response Action Plan, triggering emergency curbs across the region. This comes hours after implementation of GRAP stage III measured in the national capital region. The Commission for Air Quality Management said its...

NEW DELHI: The storm over the chief ministerial post resurfaced again after Congress MLA H A Iqbal Hussain on Saturday claimed that D K Shivakumar will take over the top job on January 6.Hussain said that DKS should be made the chief minister and that CM Siddaramaiah should vacate the post for him. He predicted...