Spread the love US President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled his long-anticipated “gold card,” a high-priced immigration offering designed to grant legal status, and eventually US citizenship, to individuals and companies willing to pay significant sums.Framed as a replacement for the three-decade-old EB-5 investor visa, the new programme opens the door to permanent residency for foreign nationals ready to invest...
Trump’s $1M ‘Gold Card’ visa unveiled: What applicants stand to gain; what remains off-limits
Spread the love US President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled his long-anticipated “gold card,” a high-priced immigration offering designed to grant legal status, and eventually US citizenship, to individuals and companies willing to pay significant sums.Framed as a replacement for the three-decade-old EB-5 investor visa, the new programme opens the door to permanent residency for foreign nationals ready to invest...
‘I really believe in myself’: Calm Hardik Pandya makes maximum impact vs SA
Spread the love Hardik Pandya. (Image: AP) MULLANPUR: After bringing up his half-century in the first T20I in Cuttack on Monday evening, Hardik Pandya raised his bat high, looked at the dressing room with a straight face and simply got back to business. The unbeaten 28-ball 59 may have seemed like a par-for-the-course T20 knock from the talented allrounder, but...
Why do microwave ovens sometimes overheat water?
Spread the love A: Water has a property called surface tension: its surface behaves like a stretched skin that tries to shrink. When a vapour bubble forms inside hot water, surface tension tends to squeeze it. For a bubble to grow instead of collapsing, the water must be hot enough for the vapour inside to resist this squeezing. At normal...
Taking a bite from the chocolate bar? It could affect your aging process, new study suggests
Spread the love Imagine reaching for a chocolate bar and taking a big bite from it, giving in to the craving for a sweet treat — and instead of being a spoilsport, science encourages it!That’s right, new research isn’t only revealing health points of chocolate-eating, it’s also suggesting that those health points could add some extra years to life as...
Can Sharjeel, Umar speeches be deemed terror acts: Supreme Court to cops
Spread the love The Supreme Court questioned Delhi Police on invoking stringent UAPA provisions against riot accused for speeches, seeking justification for linking terror acts to their words. Justices sought clarity on how Section 15, pertaining to terrorist acts, applies when arms weren’t directly used by the accused, who have been jailed for over five years. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court...
Trump’s Gold Card visa: $1M cost, eligibility, application process — explained
Spread the love US President Donald Trump unveiled the long-awaited Gold Card visa at the White House on Wednesday, billing it as a million-dollar fast track to US citizenship and a tool for companies to retain foreign graduates.He said it was “somewhat like a green card, but with big advantages,” adding that firms could “go to any school, buy a...
India’s western tragopan steadied by captive breeding, an interim fix
Spread the love The western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) is one of India’s rarest pheasants and the state bird of Himachal Pradesh. It was once found across parts of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, but now survives in small fragmented pockets. Studies in the forests of Kazinag and Limber in Jammu & Kashmir have revealed that while habitats with suitable...
‘How can a cop disappear?’: UP cop goes missing after fight with wife
Spread the love AGRA: Sitting outside Allahabad high court complex with her family, a disraught Sushila Devi, 66, waits eagerly in the hope of finding her 36-year-old son, an inspector in UP Police who went missing on Sept 17 after he was allegedly picked up by Aligarh cops following a quarrel with his wife. Her gaze fixed on the court...
Dramatic footage shows US operators fast-roping onto Venezuelan oil tanker
Spread the love The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday, marking a dramatic escalation in his administration’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela.“As you probably know, we have just seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized,...
