Spread the love Further restricting H-1B visa rules, the Trump administration has ended the lottery system for selecting visa recipients. In a press release, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that the department of homeland security (DHS) is replacing “the random lottery for selecting visa recipients with a process that gives greater weight to those with higher skills.”...
Before Amazon took off: Jeff Bezos recalls investor pitch — ‘I said there was a 70% chance of failure’
Spread the love Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently talked about the early gruelling days of Amazon. He revealed the challenges he faced while raising seed capital for his fledging online bookstore and admitted that his blunt honesty may have cost him potential backers. As reported by Fortune, speaking at the DealBook Summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bezos revealed the uphill...
Telegram founder’s plan: Durov pledges equal shares to DNA-verified kids
Spread the love Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of messaging app Telegram, offered to cover IVF treatments for women willing to use his donated sperm—and promised their children an equal share of his $17 billion fortune, provided they could prove their DNA connection to him, according to Wall Street Journal. The 41-year-old Russian-born tech entrepreneur revealed in July 2024 that...
From ‘resign now’ to $9bn backing: Intel CEO’s Oval Office pitch
Spread the love When Donald Trump publicly demanded Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation over alleged China connections in August 2025, the chipmaker’s future hung in the balance. Less than two weeks later, Tan emerged from a pivotal Oval Office meeting with an $8.9 billion government investment that transformed Intel into a “too-strategic-to-fail” company. The dramatic turnaround came after Tan orchestrated...
Odisha encounter: Top Maoist with Rs 1.2 crore bounty among 4 killed; arms seized
Spread the love Ganesh Uike (left) was gunned down along with three associates in an early-morning encounter. BHUBANESWAR: Maoist central committee (CC) member and Odisha in-charge, Ganesh Uike (69), was among four Naxals killed in an encounter with security forces in Kandhamal district on Thursday. This brings the total number of Maoists killed in the district to six in the...
கேரளாவில் பறவை காய்ச்சல்: தமிழக எல்லையோர மாவட்டங்களில் அலார்ட்
Spread the love கேரளா மாநிலம், ஆலப்புழா, கோட்டயம் மாவட்டங்களில் உள்ள பண்ணைகளில் வளர்க்கப்பட்டு வந்த பல கோழிகள் திடீரென உயிரிழந்ததால் அதன் ரத்த மாதிரியை சேகரித்து புனேவில் உள்ள பரிசோதனை மையத்திற்கு கால்நடைத்துறையினர் அனுப்பி வைத்தனர். அதை பரிசோதித்ததில் உயிரிழந்த பறவைகளுக்கு, எச்1, என்1 பறவை காய்ச்சல் பரவியிருந்தது உறுதி செய்யப்பட்டது. இதையடுத்து நோய் தடுப்பு நடவடிக்கைகளை கேரள அரசு தீவிரப்படுத்தியது. இந்நிலையில் முன்னெச்சரிக்கை நடவடிக்கையாக தமிழக மாவட்டங்களில் சோதனைச் சாவடிகள் அமைத்து கேரளாவில் இருந்து வரும் வாகனங்கள் சோதனை செய்து கிருமி நாசினிகள்...
‘Back in Bangladesh skies’: Tarique Rehman returns with wife, daughter & cat
Spread the love Tarique Rahman with his wife Zubaida Rahman and daughter Zaima Rahman (Image/Facebook@BNPmedia) BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh from London on Thursday with his wife Zubaida Rahman, daughter Zaima Rahman and pet cat Zeebu after more than 17 years in exile. His homecoming drew massive crowds of supporters, who lined streets across Dhaka to welcome...
Ashes ‘drinking’ row: ‘I did exactly the same’ — former captain defends England players
Spread the love Ben Duckett (right) during an England training session on December 25, 2025 in Melbourne. (Getty Images) England’s Ashes tour has been engulfed by controversy off the field, but former captain Michael Vaughan has urged restraint, arguing that outrage over the team’s mid-series beach break in Noosa misses the bigger picture of cricket’s long-standing culture.Go Beyond The Boundary...
India to miss $1 trillion exports target? Exports struggle despite the FTA push
Spread the love India’s ambition of exporting goods and services worth $1 trillion by the end of FY26 is likely to remain out of reach, Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) predicted in its latest report on Thursday, pointing to weak merchandise shipments due to weak global demand and increasing protectionist trends.Ajay Shrivastava, founder of the economic think tank, said that...
‘Sir, we have to evacuate … ‘: Gadkari recalls meeting Hamas leader before killing; what followed next
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Union minister Nitin Gadkari has recounted how he came face to face with Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh just hours before the latter was assassinated in Tehran, linking the incident to what he described as the growing role of technology in modern conflict and national security.Speaking at a book launch event, Gadkari said he had...
