India captain Shubman Gill was finally introduced to the rigours of leading a Test team on Day 2 of the first match against England at Headingley, Leeds as he was put to the test by England’s Bazball approach. The hosts finished the day well in control of their first innings on 209/3 with Ollie Pope…
Indians studying and living in Canada will see some relief amid high living expenses as the Canadian government raised the Federal Minimum Wage Rate for those working in the private sector. Starting April 1, Canada has raised the minimum wage from 17.30 Canadian dollars to $17.75 per hour for those working in the federally regulated…
Thousands of Costco workers prepared to strike with a midnight deadline drawing closer Friday while the worker’s union and the company negotiated. The Teamsters union represents 18,000 Costco workers in six states: California, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York. It’s unclear if the strikes would close stores. Costco has 219,000 U.S. employees and…
Mohammedan SC (Instagram Photo) NEW DELHI: As they say, there is no dull day in Indian football. The latest drama is taking place at Mohammedan SC. Reports emerged on Tuesday from Kolkata’s Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan claiming that Mohammedan players boycotted training ahead of their Indian Super League (ISL) home game against Chennaiyin FC, scheduled…
Just a day after Elon Musk took to X (formerly Twitter) to reflect on the H-1B visa for enabling him—and a slew of innovators who built SpaceX, Tesla, and other powerhouse companies—to come to America, the tech mogul shifted gears to voice his concerns about what he sees as a flawed system. On December 28,…
Franco Pereyra (Image credit: LinkedIn) Buenos Aires-based entrepreneur Franco Pereyra has stirred a debate with his perspective on the issue of pay disparities in global remote work. Pereyra, co-founder of Hire With Near, argued in a post on LinkedIn that paying overseas workers, from countries like India, less than their US counterparts isn’t inherently wrong….
NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday attacked the Modi govt over India’s economic growth slowing to near two-year low with the party’s general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh saying that the GDP growth figures released on Friday for July-Sept are much worse than anticipated, with India recording a measly 5.4% growth and consumption similarly growing…