The US Coast Guard intercepted a 25-foot sailboat carrying 16 Mexican nationals off the coast of California on Saturday and handed them over to border patrol, the agency said.The overcrowded boat was first spotted by a Coast Guard lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft about 54 miles off the coast of Point Loma near San Diego. A […]
The death toll from widespread floods in central Nigeria rose to at least 111 people on Friday.After torrential rains earlier in the week, flood waters have swept away more than 50 homes in the market town of Mokwa in the central Niger state.Ibrahim Audu Husseini, spokesperson for the Niger State emergency agency told the Associated […]
FRANKFURT: Thyssenkrupp said Monday it planned a major overhaul that will split the vast conglomerate into several standalone businesses, fuelling fears about further job losses and a looming break-up of the historic German industrial titan. Once a symbol of German manufacturing might, Thyssenkrupp has fallen into crisis in recent years as high costs at home, […]
Donald Trump said he’s thinking of giving Harvard’s grant to all trades schools across the country. President Donald Trump started his day with an unusual praise for Harvard University went to court against his administration’s highhandedness. Trump said the best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the […]
Kash Patel congratulates FBI as the agency busts an international visa fraud run by two Pakistani-origin men. FBI director Kash Patel announces a major crackdown on an immigration scam that was going on for years by two Pakistani men based out of Texas who placed classified ads for fake jobs to orchestrate the scam.Abdul Hadi […]
A leader of a notorious Mexican drug cartel who had a bounty on his head in the United States has died in a clash with army troops, authorities said Saturday.Sinaloa state, where the powerful cartel of the same name is based, is enduring a war between two rival factions that has left some 1,200 people […]
A major power outage struck southeastern France, including the Cannes region. The organisers, however, informed that the film festival, scheduled to be concluded on Saturday, would not be affected.The cause of the outage remains unknown. 1,60,000 homes had been affected, Grid operator RTE said.This comes after Spain and Portugal urged European Union to step in […]
US President Donald Trump (AP) WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is ordering a major overhaul of the national security council that will shrink its size, lead to the ouster of some political appointees and return many career government employees back to their home agencies, according to two US officials and one person familiar with the reorganization. […]
USCIS has revealed the number of H-1B registrations for 2026 The Donald Trump administration has selected 120,141 H-1B visa applications for 2026, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed in their recently published data. This is the lowest since 2021, after H-1B became a contentious issue even before Donald Trump’s January inauguration.The Make America Great […]
Several Indian-origin Congressmen pushed for domestic renewal of H-1B visa. Several Indian-origin politicians, including Ro Khanna (D-California), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), have pushed for doemstic H-1B visa renewal arguing that this should be integrated with the immigration department, after its successful pilot project in 2024. Their letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]
