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Green Card crackdown on major IT giants including Microsoft shakes Silicon Valley. Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa strongly reacted to the Donald Trump administration’s suspension PERM program for eight IT giants, including Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capegemini and said that these companies are not the visa abusers. The visa abusers are…

Indian-origin doctor mom arrested and charged in Florida for a child’s drowning under her watch. A Louisiana doctor, Sukanthini Subbiah, has been arrested by the Orlando Police Department in Florida and charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter as she was present when seven-year-old Khushil Bandi drowned. The incident took place on April 10 but the arrest…

Her lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said police pointed guns at Doe’s father, brother and boyfriend after responding to the bogus emergency call. The FBI is also looking into the incident. Cornell’s Jane Doe is terrified after armed police swarmed her parents’ home on Tuesday night following a fake call claiming a man had shot and killed…

Harvard University and 8 other elite institutions come under J-1 visa fraud investigation. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT are under investigation for alleged visa fraud, Vice President JD Vance announced, suggesting that these universities are exploiting the J-1 visa program to import cheaper students from…

Two new Green Card policies get challenged in the court. Unions of immigrant workers came together to challenge two new Green Card rules proposed by the Trump-Vance administration, saying that these policies will make it almost impossible for eligible immigrants who are already living in the US to get their Green Cards without leaving the…

Photo credit: Helping Hands Jamaica In February 2016, Serena Williams traded the tennis court for a construction site in Jamaica, joining charity partners, local workers and volunteers to help build the Salt Marsh Basic School in Trelawny. The project was created to give young children access to free early education in a community where such…

The reform could nevertheless create an opportunity for the centre-left if its parties can overcome their differences and form a broad alliance. Recent polls put Meloni’s Brothers of Italy at about 28%, followed by the Democratic Party at around 20% and Five Star at 12.5%. Italy’s parliament on Thursday gave final approval to an electoral…

The six journalists – Abdullah Qadry, Mohammed Ashraf Abu Emeira, Islam Barakat, Omar Helal, Mohammed Mahmoud and Mohammed Adel – were arrested during raids on their homes across Egypt. Egyptian authorities have charged six journalists working for independent fact-checking platform Matsda2sh with alleged links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, days after security forces arrested the…

Image: Stamford advocate(left) John Reznikoff has built one of the world’s strangest historical collections: hair from some of the most famous people in history. The Connecticut-based collector and authenticator holds the Guinness World Records title for the largest collection of hair from historical figures. When he received the record in 2001, his collection contained hair…

Image: Left/Wikipedia/Right/Beautiful World In November 2025, Prince William used the stage of the fourth annual United for Wildlife Global Summit in Rio de Janeiro to unveil a new alliance for the people who defend the Brazilian Amazon. The partnership aims to protect Indigenous leaders and nature defenders working across territory covering 110 million hectares. Actor…