The policy could have particularly significant consequences for employment-based Green Card applicants, many of whom have traditionally relied on adjustment of status (AOS) while continuing to live and work legally in the U.S. There is a large number of Indian immigrants who stand to face significant disruption and delay because of this policy shift.
It is not just Indian professionals, but this bill could result in a further drop in Indian students - the largest foreign student cohort in the US - showing interest in higher studies in the US. It is not just the H-1B visa by itself, but the proposal for ending the OPT which prospective students would be paying attention to. OPT helps students in drawing employment, gaining experience and potentially transferring to H-1B Visa status. In 2024-2025, over 140,000 Indian students were participating in the OPT program.
Le-Huu calls the Red EP “a bright exemplar of world fusion music… -- a folk duo blending South Asian and American traditions” layering “original Urdu, Hindi, and English lyrics over classical Indian ragas and beats borrowed from rock, reggae, and American roots music.”
In the end, the need to remember our war dead transcends borders, alliances, and eras. These disturbed graves — British, Australian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi in origin — call us to a solemn duty: To honour all who fell with dignity. Forgetting them, or allowing their memory to be selectively bulldozed, diminishes us all.
A founding artist of the Bengal school of art, Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951) has had a profound impact on modern Indian art as we know it today. A virtual tour of his artworks, dedicated to his 150th birth anniversary is currently live on the website of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA)
A pair of Mahatma Gandhi's glasses will go on sale after staff at the East Bristol Auctions, the largest auction house in South West England, found them in a plain envelope
The manager of the historic 17th century Wazir Khan mosque in Lahore has been suspended over the shooting of a music video on the shrine's premises, it was reported on Monday
The life story of Rohullah Nikpa, the first winner of the Olympic medal for Afghanistan, would be featured in the Hollywood film industry—a first such big podium for an Afghan athlete
On July 30, Ashikur Rahman Zubayer received a letter from Guinness World Record at his house on Masjid Bari Road in Jhalakati. Barishal
Cross-border COVID-19 concerns continue to shape the coverage in sections of Pakistani media dealing with entertainment. So Bollywood and its stars become the top news whatever be the state of India-Pakistan relations on political, diplomatic, and military levels
Karnataka, one of the Indian states badly affected by Covid, has launched eight startup-developed products to help in the fight against coronavirus
As part of the policy for universal education, the Maharashtra state government has tied up with Google to enable remote learning for 2.30 (23 million) crore students and teachers
Dine-in restaurants and beauty salons would reopen across Pakistan on August 10, Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar said Thursday in a televised address, as the efforts against the coronavirus pandemic seem to bear fruit
The first female multi-stage cycling race started in the central province of Bamiyan with 46 cyclists from Ghazni, Faryab, Balkh, Kabul and Bamiyan provinces, and 12 will qualify for the national women’s cycling team
Hindus and their supporters in this metropolis celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for the Ram Jhanmabhoomi Temple ignoring a ban on a video marking the occasion due to pressure from an Islamic group
About 18 percent of the primary students drop out in Bangladesh with boys accounting for most of it, despite different efforts by the government
Bangladesh marked the 159th birth anniversary of eminent Indian scientist and philosopher Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
The new National Education Policy (NEP) announced by the Modi government last week has introduced major reforms in Indian education at all levels
With travel restrictions and physical distancing becoming the new normal this year, traditional visits to siblings for rakhi this year are being substituted by virtual rakhis sent online
