For nearly a year, Delaram Pouyabahar planned her next academic step around a postdoctoral position at Harvard University. Interviews, fellowship applications, visa paperwork and a consular interview in Toronto were all completed. Then, in early June 2025, a new US travel ban quietly brought those plans to a halt.The policy, announced on June 4, expanded […]
Indian-origin venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani doubled down on her view that US must restrict H-1B visas only to the world’s “top talent.” She said the programme should not be used to let “mediocre” engineering workers from foreign countries storm US. Her comments come a week after she claimed she had influenced US President Donald […]
A heated national row over jobs, immigration and the future of the American workforce has intensified after President Donald Trump suggested that the United States “doesn’t have certain talents” earlier this week, even as the MAGA administration tightens rules around the H1-B visa programme. The GOP leader’s latest comments have reignited a long-running political fight […]
UK education secretary Bridget Phillipson LONDON: Bodies representing Indian students, UK academics and UK universities have slammed plans by Labour to impose a levy on international students to pay for maintenance grants for domestic students from low-income families at university or college, saying it will put off international students and hit university finances.UK education secretary […]
A broad coalition of US higher education organizations is urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw a proposed rule that would replace the longstanding “duration of status” (D/S) policy for F-1 international students and J-1 exchange visitors with fixed, four-year visa terms. The groups warn that the change would harm US colleges and […]
Donald Trump threw shade at Jimmy Kimmel‘s late night show during his Charlie Kirk memorial speech, and went on to criticise “wrong pronoun, commentators and influencers” who “greeted his assassination with sick approval.“Calling out those who “fascism over a cancelled late night TV show,” referring to Kimmel’s show, he declared that the anchor had “no […]
Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel (AP images) US president Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel‘s show, mocking the late-night host of having “zero talent” and praising the network for “finally having the courage to do what had to be done.” In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote: “Great News for […]
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that late-night presenters Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon have no talent and asserted that they would be the next to face cancellation during a news conference.At the conference, when Real America’s Voice correspondent Brian Glenn enquired about Howard Stern’s potential departure from Sirius XM after his […]
Saudi Arabia and UAE climb global AI charts with strong talent growth/ Representative Image TL;DR The UAE and Saudi Arabia now rank in the top 20 countries for AI talent, ahead of Italy and Russia. Saudi Arabia is offering world-leading AI salaries, long-term research incentives, and building AI cities. The UAE is focusing on fintech, […]
US President Donald Trump claimed that he played no part in the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, but suggested that the long-running host was axed due to a “pure lack of TALENT” and mounting financial losses. “Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, […]
