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But granting employment authorisation to all spouses of H-1B visa holders would encourage more skilled migrants, including Indians, to choose the US over Canada, the study by National Foundation for American Policy revealed.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won this week’s Israeli election, final results showed Thursday

MEIL will build EPC-2 (open art units, utilities and offsites, plant buildings) and EPC-3 (captive power plants) at a cost of $790 million (about Rs 6,400 crore) using advanced technology in Mongolia.

Islamabad: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was injured on Thursday when an unidentified gunman opened fire on the container-mounted-truck carrying him during his protest march in Pakistan’s Punjab province, but he was out of danger, media reports said. The incident occurred near Allahwala Chowk of Wazirabad town of Punjab when Khan was leading the […]

Rome: Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded its outlook on Italy’s economy, the latest in a series of worrying signs for the country. Moody’s on Wednesday slashed its assessment of the country’s banking system from “stable” to “negative”, and said it expects conditions for the banking sector to deteriorate further over the coming 12 to 18 […]

Melbourne: A $1 million reward has been announced to help nab an Indian man, who according to police may have murdered an Australian woman on a beach before fleeing to India. Pharmacy worker and animal shelter volunteer Toyah Cordingley, 24, was killed while walking her dog on Wangetti Beach in October 2018. Her body was […]

Paris: October 2022 was the hottest October in France since 1945, with an average temperature of 17.2 degrees Celsius, the national meteorological service Meteo-France said. The average temperature this October was about 3.5 degrees Celsius higher than normal across the country, Xinhua news agency quoted Meteo-France as saying. According to the meteorological service, the second […]

Video of her struggling with algebra and other school work has been going viral for the past few months now. In her latest, she attempts to speak in pure Urdu.

The missiles were fired into waters "near the Northern Limit Line at a distance corresponding to the area where the North Korean missile struck," South Korea's military said in a statement, adding the exercise showed that Seoul would respond "sternly to any provocations".

Father Bobit Augusthy, 30, was attacked by the 22-year-old Anthony Sweeney on the morning of October 30 at the chaplain's house near University Hospital Waterford in Ardkeen, local media reports said.

Jeddah: An Indian cyclist who is on a mission to pedal around the globe has reached Saudi Arabia after touring different countries across the globe. Somen Debnath has been travelling across the world on a bicycle to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS. Since the start of his journey in 2004, he has been on the road […]

Washington: Covid-19 cases caused by new variants are growing fast in the US, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the latest CDC data published on Monday, two new variants, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, have been growing especially fast, reports Xinhua news agency. At the beginning of October, […]

San Francisco: Chief Twit Elon Musk is officially the new CEO of Twitter as the micro-blogging platform braces for deeper layoffs under him. Musk earlier tweeted that he has “no idea” who the CEO of Twitter is, the latest US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed that Musk is now the sole “reporting Person” […]

Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian government on Monday urged citizens to wear masks and follow other precautionary measures amid a fresh Covid-19 resurgence. Malaysia is experiencing another Covid-19 wave which has led to an increase in new infections by 16.5 per cent to 16,917 cases from the 14,525 ones recorded between October 23 and 29, Xinhua […]

Warangal: Minerva Lithium, a university spinout company from the University of North Carolina (NC) at Greensboro and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro, (NC), co-founded by Dr Sheeba Dawood from Warangal, has won an award in Startup Battlefield, a competition held by ‘TechCrunch’ in October, 2022. Minerva Lithium develops critical mineral extraction […]

Kampala: Kuntaj Patel, a 24 year-old Indian businessman from Gujarat, has been allegedly shot dead by a police constable in Kisoro town of Uganda, local media reports said. Police constable Elioda Gumizamu, 21, a member of the Field Force Unit has been arrested after he stormed a hardware shop last week, where Patel worked, and […]

All but one of the fatalities have been identified, officials said.

U.S. President Joe Biden has warned that global hunger could increase because of Russia’s suspension of a U.N.-brokered deal to allow safe passage for ships carrying Ukrainian grain.

It’s not yet clear how Musk secured all of the financing to close his $44 billion agreement to buy the company and take it private.

As Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over as Twitter CEO, the microblogging site's co-founder Jack Dorsey is reportedly testing another social network App to compete with the Blue Bird.

Kathmandu: The Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday sent a diplomatic note to India regarding the death of a nine-year-old boy who was killed after being hit by a stone that flew in a blast carried out for the widening of the Tavaghat-Lipulek road by India across the Mahakali river in western Nepal. The […]

At least 153 people were killed in a stampede in South Korea’s Seoul where the crowd gathered during the Halloween festivities.

Climate activists across the world and specifically in Europe are indulging in what looks like an organised attack on some of the world’s most historic paintings. They are gluing themselves to these paintings in protest.

The deadliest stampede in South Korea's history happened on Saturday night in a narrow downhill alley near Hamilton Hotel in the famous nightlife district after tens of thousands of people visited the area for Halloween, Yonhap news agency reported.