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Tech Giants Urge H-1B Holders to Stay Put Amid $100,000 Fee Rule
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, JPMorgan, and other major corporations have instructed employees who hold H-1B or H-4 visas to avoid foreign travel and, where abroad, to return to the United States before a looming deadline. The guidance follows a presidential proclamation that imposes a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa...
Grand Alliance Insists on CM Face before Bihar Polls
Tejashwi Yadav has declared that the Mahagathbandhan will not enter the upcoming Bihar assembly election without projecting a Chief Ministerial candidate. He criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party, asking, “Are we the BJP that we do not have any faces?” and asserted that his coalition must present someone for the...
Oli Asserts India Blockade Brush-Off in First Speech Post-Ouster
Former Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli broke his silence on Constitution Day, challenging accusations around the Gen Z protests that prompted his resignation and invoking India’s 2015 border blockade as well as his government’s engagement with China. Oli denied ever ordering security forces to shoot demonstrators, saying that...
Congress Counters BJP Criticism Over Pitroda’s “Pakistan Felt Like Home” Comment
New Delhi — Sam Pitroda, chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, has defended his statement that he “felt at home” in Pakistan, saying it was meant to highlight shared history and people-to-people ties rather than ignore terrorism or geopolitical tensions. Pitroda spoke following sharp criticism from the Bharatiya Janata...
Russia Denounces Western Pressure over India’s Role in Zapad Drills
Moscow has sharply criticised Western governments for seeking to influence India’s involvement in the Zapad military exercises with Belarus, describing European objections as “unfounded” and “deliberately contrived.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said attempts to dissuade New Delhi from participating constituted an effort to dictate terms to sovereign...
Storm over Rahul’s advice to Gen Z
BJP parliamentarian Nishikant Dubey lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday after Gandhi appealed to the nation’s Gen Z to “defend the Constitution” and “stop vote theft”, posting that he would stand with young people who challenge electoral malpractice. Dubey’s post on X turned the outreach into...
$100K H-1B Visa Fee Risks Indian Tech Exodus
President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation mandating a $100,000 annual fee for companies filing H-1B visa petitions for high-skilled foreign workers, a part of sweeping immigration changes that include a $1 million “gold card” visa for wealthy permanent residents. The directive, effective from 12:01 a. m. eastern daylight...
Malik Alleges Singh Expressed Gratitude After Meeting Saeed
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front leader Yasin Malik has claimed that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh personally thanked him after a 2006 meeting with Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, according to an affidavit filed in the Delhi High Court. Malik, who is serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case,...
Rahul Gandhi Alleges CEC Shielding ‘Vote Theft’ in Voter Deletion Case
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi intensified his campaign against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, asserting that he is protecting actors responsible for mass deletion of voters from the electoral roll in several states, especially in Karnataka’s Aland constituency. Gandhi declared he had solid proof of systematic manipulation and software-based fraud,...
Veiled Demographic Alarm Rattles Assam Politics
A video generated using artificial intelligence, shared by the Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on social media on 15 September, has become the centre of a political firestorm. Opposition parties allege the clip stokes communal fear by portraying a dystopian future: Assam becoming a Muslim-majority state, opposition...
SC Defers Bail Pleas of Khalid, Imam and Others to 22 September
The Supreme Court has postponed until 22 September the hearing on bail applications by Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and Meeran Haider in the Unlawful Activities Act conspiracy case linked to the February 2020 Delhi riots. A bench comprising Justices Aravind Kumar and Manmohan issued the adjournment. They...
Pawar Says He Lacks Moral Authority to Ask Modi to Step Down
Sharad Pawar, president of the Nationalist Congress Party, has stated he is not in a position to demand Prime Minister Narendra Modi resign for reaching the age of 75. Pawar, who is 85, made the comments while speaking in Kolhapur, asserting that since he himself continues publicly even beyond...
Washington Ends Chabahar Sanctions Waiver
The United States has decided to withdraw the sanctions waiver for the Chabahar Port in Iran, which has been in force since 2018, with the revocation taking effect on 29 September 2025. Under the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act, the waiver had allowed India’s involvement with Chabahar for trade...
Shah Accuses Congress of Shielding Infiltrators
Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared that the Bharatiya Janata Party fully backs the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and accused the Congress Party of deploying its “Voter Adhikar Yatra” in Bihar to protect “infiltrators” and win elections with their support. Addressing a public gathering in...
Abdullah Blames Divine Wrath for Highway Crisis
National Conference president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has said that the closure of the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway, which has severely affected the apple crop in the Union Territory, is a consequence of divine wrath rather than human negligence or sabotage. He suggested that a...
Handshake Row Forces Delay of Pakistan-UAE Asia Cup Fixture
Dubai hosted drama when Pakistan’s Group A match against the United Arab Emirates was held up by an hour after the Pakistan Cricket Board pressed the ICC over match referee Andy Pycroft’s role in a no-handshake incident involving India. The board contended that Pycroft instructed captains Salman Ali Agha...
Kasuri Vows Kashmir Rivers, Dams Will ‘Belong to Us’ in Video
Saifullah Kasuri, deputy chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba, issued a video threat to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, declaring that the rivers and dams of Jammu & Kashmir would “belong to us,” and promising retribution for Operation Sindoor. Intelligence sources say the video surfaced in Pakistan and is being scrutinised...
Students lock VC office amid row over Aurangzeb remarks
Protests escalated at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, after students locked the vice-chancellor’s chamber and demanded her removal following remarks in which she called Mughal ruler Aurangzeb an efficient administrator. The vice-chancellor, Sunita Mishra, has since issued an apology, saying her words were misinterpreted. Anger flared when Mishra arrived at...
