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Vijeta Dahiya, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party on Wednesday announced three spokespersons, a day after activist and educator Sonam Wangchuk decided to join what began as one of the country’s biggest internet sensations and has since evolved into a unique political formation.The CJP, which began as a viral online phenomenon…
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that the per-country limit in EB-2 category for India has been exhausted for the fiscal year (FY) 2026. In its announcement, the DHS directed all embassies and consulates to no longer issue EB-2 visas to Indian applicants for the rest of the current fiscal year. As…
FILE (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) Microsoft has announced that three of India’s biggest IT companies — Infosys, TCS and Wipro — have each scaled their Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses to over 100,000 employees, taking the collective commitment past 300,000 seats in under six months. The milestone is said to mark one of the largest and…
Henry Nowak and Vickrum Digwa (R) A video widely circulating on social media shows British police handcuffing a dying teenager after he was stabbed by an Indian-origin Sikh man who falsely claimed he had been racially abused by the victim.The victim, 18-year-old Henry Nowak, was in a vulnerable condition and repeatedly tried to tell officers…
The United States military disabled the Botswana-flagged oil tanker M/T Lexie in international waters after the vessel allegedly ignored repeated warnings and continued sailing towards Iran’s Kharg Island, the US central command said. It also released the video from when a US aircraft struck the ship.According to the central command, the US fired a Hellfire…
191 attacks on healthcare, 128 dead: What WHO’s latest Lebanon warning reveals (Image credit: AP) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised alarm over continued attacks on healthcare facilities in Lebanon, warning that the violence is costing lives and further restricting access to essential medical services.In its latest update, WHO reported that recent hostilities in…
Technology industry has cut over a lakh jobs in 2026. One engineering role has done the exact opposite—postings are up 729% in a year, and the pay sits between $170,000 and over $200,000. The job is forward-deployed engineer, or FDE, and right now it might be the only safe seat in the industry. Indeed listings…
Oil prices jumped over 1% on Wednesday as tensions in the Middle East continued to intensify after Iran launched missiles towards Kuwait and Bahrain. At the same time, peace efforts between Tehran and Washington yielded no breakthrough and the Strait of Hormuz disruption continued for 96th day.Brent crude futures gained $1.05, or 1.09%, to reach…
New Delhi: In search of a new expansive definition of ‘Aravali hills and ranges’ after dropping the earlier court-accepted controversial 100m height criteria, Supreme Court has entrusted the task to a five-member high-powered committee that’ll include experts from Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, Forest Survey of India and Geological Survey of India.A bench…
NEW DELHI: The governing council of Niti Aayog, headed by PM Narendra Modi, is scheduled to meet on June 11, weeks after Centre’s premier think tank was restructured. A day later, the PM will chair a meeting of chief ministers from the north-east, officials said. The governing council will take stock of deliberations at the…
