It is not just Indian professionals, but this bill could result in a further drop in Indian students - the largest foreign student cohort in the US - showing interest in higher studies in the US. It is not just the H-1B visa by itself, but the proposal for ending the OPT which prospective students would be paying attention to. OPT helps students in drawing employment, gaining experience and potentially transferring to H-1B Visa status. In 2024-2025, over 140,000 Indian students were participating in the OPT program.
Le-Huu calls the Red EP “a bright exemplar of world fusion music… -- a folk duo blending South Asian and American traditions” layering “original Urdu, Hindi, and English lyrics over classical Indian ragas and beats borrowed from rock, reggae, and American roots music.”
In the end, the need to remember our war dead transcends borders, alliances, and eras. These disturbed graves — British, Australian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi in origin — call us to a solemn duty: To honour all who fell with dignity. Forgetting them, or allowing their memory to be selectively bulldozed, diminishes us all.
Together, the team conducts collaborative research and policy development initiatives across four South Asian countries - Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Their work aims to strengthen national preparedness, improve crisis response systems, and support governments in building resilient, technology-enabled public safety infrastructure. Together, these researchers represent a growing national capability in applying Artificial Intelligence to real-world challenges.
Saying this is "not an Indian crisis, but a global one", a host of Indian-American organizations have started a joint online signature campaign demanding US President Joe Biden’s administration rush vaccines to India and help the country build its own vaccine manufacturing capacity
Just two weeks into its existence, the Newly-formed Asian American Foundation, TAAF, established with high profile leaders and celebrities, announced that it is committing more than $1 billion “To serve the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in their pursuit of belonging and prosperity that is free from discrimination, slander, and violence.”
British-Pakistani woman Haseeba Abdullah, England’s first hijab-wearing (veil wearing) boxing coach, has now been named a “Hometown Hero” for the Commonwealth Games slated to be held next year in Birmingham, Geo News reported
A leading children’s rights organization Plan International has admitted it “made a number of mistakes” when it left Sri Lanka abruptly last year, amid accusations it had misled the public and donors and failed 20,000 vulnerable children in the country, The Guardian reported
This team reflects the ethos of the cultural diversity of India, Indians in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world, which could be a fiber of the thread of strong bilateral relations between India and the Gulf countries
Altogether 68 Bangladeshi migrants have been rescued so far off the Tunisian coast in northern Africa, after a boat carrying them capsized in the Mediterranean earlier this week
Some unidentified men attempted to forcibly enter the office of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in London, Dawn reported
A Bangladeshi migrant worker was shot at and wounded in Lebanon during a commotion among Palestinians over the Israeli aggression
Ravinatha Aryasinha, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States, has urged overseas Sri Lankans in the US to contribute relief goods and make donations to help Sri Lanka when it is facing a disastrous Covid wave
A nine-year-old Bangladeshi-origin girl from England’s Manchester has completed a 40-km charity walk to raise £14,535 for street children in Bangladesh
Nepalis living in the Middle East countries have sent 560 oxygen cylinders to Nepal to help the Himalayan nation battle a surging Coronavirus infection
A total of 349 Nepalis living in 23 foreign countries have succumbed to COVID-19 so far, according to the Non-Resident Nepali Association
Sri Kajamukam Chelliah, a Sri Lankan origin Canadian, has been sentenced to 32 months in prison in the US for attempting to bring six Sri Lankan nationals illegally into the United States
Guantanamo Bay's oldest prisoner Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman held for 16 years at the US detention center, has been notified that his release has been approved by Washington, The News reported
The US Embassy in Islamabad has recognized the contributions of a Pakistani award-winning open-source engineer Ahmad Awais for contributing a code to the software for the Mars 2020 helicopter mission
