Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakravarthy. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Eyebrows were raised when India announced five spinners in the team for the ICC Champions Trophy. Historically, the pitches in Dubai do not overly favour spinners. However, the venue has also just got done with the month-long ILT20 league which may have left the…
Top US financial firms file nearly 12,000 H-1B visa requests for 2024 fiscal year As the debate around immigration policy and skilled foreign workers intensifies, US companies are increasingly relying on the H-1B visa program to fill specialized roles. This program, which allows US businesses to hire foreign workers in fields like science, technology, and…
The No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health abruptly resigned and retired from government service on Tuesday, in another sign that the Trump administration is reshaping the nation’s public health and biomedical research institutions. The official, Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, a dentist and researcher, was long considered a steadying force and had weathered…
NEW DELHI: Skipper Rohit Sharma roared back to form ahead of the Champions Trophy on Sunday, scoring his 32nd ODI century in India’s four-wicket victory over England in Cuttack. After his whirlwind 90-ball 119 that included 12 fours and 7 sixes, Rohit attributed his success to breaking down his batting approach during the chase of…
NEW DELHI: In a big boost for India’s ambitious Deep Ocean Mission, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has allocated Rs 600 crore for the Samudrayaan project, under which scientists will be sent to the depths of the ocean in a specially-designed submersible to explore the ocean floor, including the country’s continental shelf and exclusive economic…
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week we go even deeper on DeepSeek. ChinaTalks’ Jordan Schneider joins us to explain the Chinese A.I. industry and to break down the reaction inside of China to DeepSeek’s sudden success. Then … hello, Operator! We put OpenAI’s new agent…
How USCIS’s beneficiary-centric process is reshaping the H-1B visa system in 2025 In a significant move to enhance fairness and transparency, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has overhauled the H-1B visa selection process for the 2025 fiscal year. The new beneficiary-centric system, which prioritizes individual beneficiaries over employer submissions, has already proven effective…
“The chief business of the American people is business.” That declaration by Calvin Coolidge has been shortened and simplified since that Republican president uttered it before an assembly of newspaper editors a century ago. But the notion that the business of America is business was on conspicuous display at President Trump’s inauguration. It may be…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an extraordinary discovery by detecting emissions from a galaxy located over 13 billion light-years away. This breakthrough provides a rare opportunity to study the universe’s conditions just 400 million years after the Big Bang.A window into the early universeAccording to media reports, the galaxy, named GHZ2 (also…
Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Frustration and disappointment were evident on India pacer Akash Deep‘s face as the 18-year-old repeatedly beat the bat, particularly against Steve Smith, during the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Brisbane.Having missed the first two Tests, Akash Deep was brought in to replace Harshit Rana….