Category: World

H-1B visa holders facing sudden appointment cancellations have little legal relief, according to immigration lawyers, as interview dates are pushed late into 2026, leaving thousands anxious and hasty to protect jobs and travel plans.Mass cancellations and abrupt rescheduling of H-1B visa stamping appointments have pushed interview dates from early 2026 to as late as October…

Three Indian-Origin men have been jailed for their part in a violent disorder at a Kabbadi tournament in Alvaston in the summer of 2023. Boota Singh, Damanjit Singh and Rajvinder Takhar Singh were sentenced at Derby Crown Court on 19 December after being found guilty at a trial in November, according to Derbyshire Police.Violence broke…

In early 2017, Svetlana Lokhova was a young mother and Cambridge-trained historian living in England when she woke up to a media storm she could not understand. Journalists were suddenly describing her as a Russian spy who had allegedly conducted an affair with a senior US official. Within days, her name became entangled in the…

The Department of Justice on Friday released thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, but a substantial number of documents remain unpublished.Congress had given the DOJ a Dec. 19 deadline to release all records in its possession. Over the past month, the DOJ and both Democratic and Republican…

As Russian president Vladimir Putin was addressing his year-end press conference, journalist Kirill Bazhanov proposed his girlfriend as he knew she was watching the television. Dressed in a red bow tie, the journalist was holding a poster reading “I want to get married”. “I know that my girlfriend is watching the press conference now. Olechka,…

A river in northern Alaska made the scientific community focus on it recently after parts of its waterway had changed their colour dramatically, a fact that led to the establishment that the source was beneath the ground, not just a temporary surface change. The change in colour has been connected to the fact that the…

Ad Astra has two caregivers, serves graham crackers and apples for snacks and has personalised cots Elon Musk, is the richest man in the world with a net worth that recently reached $600 billion. Space, automobile, AI, social media, administration, there is no progressing industry he hasn’t tapped into and excelled at. But what many…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she would “stomp” Vice President JD Vance in a hypothetical 2028 presidential race after a newly released poll showed her holding a narrow lead over Vance. The remark was made during a brief, unscripted exchange with a reporter outside the US Capitol, where she was asked about early head-to-head polling, and…

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) announced a one-time $1,776 “warrior dividend” for American military troops for Christmas, indicating that tariffs were funding the payments.Flanked by two Christmas trees and a portrait of George Washington, Trump speaking at the White House said that around 1.45 million service members would receive the payment, with…

Ex-DOGE lead Vivek Ramaswamy defended his New York Times opinion piece titled ‘What Is an American?’ and stirred a row with social media, accusing the Republican politician of dismissing his Indian-origin race and blurring the grey line by saying “either you’re an American, or you’re not”.Ramaswamy posted on X describingg what he feels is the…