Amid increased scrutiny of H-1B visa program in the US, a new job posting on LinkedIn by one Prasad DP has reached Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K Dhillon who called it illegal and vowed action against it. “This is not legal. We will look into this @CivilRights,” Dhillon said, reacting to the post, which only…
An Indian-origin political candidate has criticised South Australia’s Premier, saying his comments about immigration were insulting to migrants.Deepa Mathew, Family First’s South Australian upper house candidate, said she was hurt by remarks made by Premier Peter Malinauskas during a question-and-answer session in Adelaide this week.Speaking at an event organised by the Committee for Economic Development…
Former IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath has backed Indian-American lawyer Neal Katyal in questioning US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 15 per cent global tariff.Responding to Katyal’s post on X, Gopinath supported his argument that trade deficits and balance-of-payments deficits are conceptually different, a distinction central to the legal debate over the administration’s…
Emirates and Etihad cancelled multiple UAE–US flights due to East Coast blizzard warnings/Image: X Air travel between the UAE and the United States has been disrupted after a fast-developing Nor’easter triggered blizzard warnings along the US East Coast. Emirates and Etihad have cancelled and rescheduled several flights to and from New York, Newark and Boston…
A 23-year-old Indian man, Atharva Shailesh Sathawane, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he was found guilty of scamming elders in Florida. The sentence was announced in January but the case has now come to the attention of MAGA commentators as their anti-India sentiment becomes louder over incidents of visa abuse and…
A new Mona Lisa has appeared in El Salvador. But this isn’t Leonardo da Vinci’s original. Instead, it seems a local twist has been added, in more ways than one. A towering 13-metre mural now dominates a building in Zacamil, a working-class area of San Salvador. And it’s made entirely from recycled plastic bottle caps,…
2,000 years ago, people in Vietnam used iron to permanently blacken their teeth (Image Source – Springer Nature) Archaeologists working in northern Vietnam have found chemical evidence that people were permanently blackening their teeth around 2,000 years ago. The study focused on human remains from the Dong Xa site, dated to the Iron Age and…
Sheikh Saleh Al-Maghamsi has been appointed imam of the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah/Image: X Sheikh Saleh bin Awad Al-Maghamsi has officially been appointed as an imam of the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. He led his first Isha prayer at Masjid an-Nabawi on February 21, beginning his service at one of Islam’s most sacred sites.The appointment…
Anonymous philanthropist donates AED35 million to ‘Edge of Life’ campaign fighting childhood hunger/Representative Image An anonymous philanthropist has contributed AED35 million to the ‘Edge of Life’ campaign, a Ramadan initiative launched to help rescue five million children from hunger. The campaign aims to raise at least AED1 billion to fund sustainable programmes addressing childhood malnutrition…
Türkiye’s Huge Anti-Drug Operation Detains 346 Suspects Across Five Provinces During Ramadan 2026 Turkish authorities have launched a massive anti-narcotics crackdown, detaining 346 suspects and seizing large quantities of illegal drugs and weapons in a coordinated operation spanning five provinces. The Turkish Gendarmerie General Command led the raids, which targeted drug trafficking networks in Adana,…
