Canada unveils $1.7B plan to attract foreign researchers: What you need to know about the new initiative

Canadian universities accelerate visas for foreign researchers: How Canada is competing for global STEM talent. (Getty Images) Canada has announced a sweeping $1.7 billion plan aimed at attracting foreign researchers, including those currently holding or previously holding H-1B visas in the US. The initiative is designed to bolster the country’s research capacity, expand postdoctoral positions,…

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Ashneer Grover takes an indirect dig at Smriti Mandhana and Palaash Muchhal wedding drama in new spoof, ‘No choreographers please, shaadi tut jati hai’ |

A few days after cricketer Smriti Mandhana and music composer Palaash Muchhal’s wedding was suddenly called off, Ashneer Grover joined the ongoing online discussion — not with a comment, but with a funny spoof video that seems to indirectly reference the situation.Ashneer teamed up with actors Rajesh Yadav and Sanyam Sharma for a comedy sketch…

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Law but no order: Karnataka suspends 236 ‘dirty’ cops, 42 face criminal cases; Bengaluru sleuths top list | Bengaluru News

BENGALURU: At a time when citizens instinctively dial 100 in moments of panic, a troubling question is beginning to echo across Karnataka: Are police personnel, the very people meant to protect the common man, breaking public trust? This Nov, a police sub-inspector under probation in Davanagere identified as Malappa Chippalakatti of Hamsabhavi in Haveri district…

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Containers of Bananas falling into sea delay cruise for 24 hours in Britain’s busiest waterway |

Sixteen containers fell into the sea, including eight filled with bananas/ Image: X Southampton sees its share of maritime disruption, but it’s not often caused by bananas and other produce. When 16 containers toppled from a cargo ship into the Solent, the spill was significant enough to halt departures and send Coastguard helicopters and planes…

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What Nitish did to win the election in Bihar

Sanjay Kumar Sanjay is a seasoned new media journalist and media educator, whose illustrious career spans across top-notch media organizations, including Times Group, NDTV, Hindustan Times, India Today Group, Microsoft, where he served as the Managing Editor of Microsoft News, a UK-based international finance magazine, where he was Editor-in-Chief, and Geospatial World, where he excelled…

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‘If you subtract immigration…’: Top White House aide suggests US was better off favouring Western countries over third-world

Stephen Miller, White House aide and key architect of Donald Trump’s immigration policy, said that US would have been better off favouring immigrants from Western and Northern Europe over those from so-called “third world” countries. Unsuccessful immigrants giving birth to unsuccessful children Speaking to Fox News, Miller criticised the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which…

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Rupee slide continues: INR hits all-time low of 90.32 against dollar; US-India trade-deal delays and dollar demand weigh

The rupee closed at a new all-time low of 90.32 against the US dollar on Thursday, sinking 38 paise, as uncertainty around the India-US trade deal and continued foreign fund outflows pressured the currency, PTI reported.The local unit opened at 89.95, weakened further through the session and hit a record intra-day low of 90.48, before…

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