The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has received enough petitions to meet the H-1B visa cap for Fiscal Year 2027, meaning there will be no additional lottery rounds. In an alert issued on July 17, 2026, the agency said it has reached both the 65,000 regular H-1B visa cap and…
Until a few years ago, Pawan Kumar Chandana was one of many engineers working quietly at ISRO. Outside the space community, hardly anyone knew his name.Today, that’s changed.On Saturday, as Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 successfully reached orbit from Sriharikota, Chandana found himself at the heart of one of the biggest moments in India’s private space journey….
Chinese President Xi Jinping used China’s biggest tech stage to draw a sharp line between how Beijing and Washington think about artificial intelligence—and the difference comes down to one word: openness. Speaking at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday, Xi urged countries to grab the “historic opportunity” of open-source…
“Your silence now in the face of such crime is unacceptable,” the letter read. NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge Saturday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling his silence over the theft of Ram Mandir donations “unacceptable” and former Temple general secretary Champat Rai a “disgrace”.‘Your silence…
Sonam Wangchuk, shifted to Safdarjung Hospital, and CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, who has taken over the indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar. NEW DELHI: A day after activist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital from the Jantar Mantar protest site, he appealed to supporters to make the proposed July 20 march to Parliament…
Image credit: Major League Cricket NEW DELHI: The Los Angeles Knight Riders held their nerve in a breathtaking final over to beat Washington Freedom by one run and win their maiden Major League Cricket (MLC) title at the Oakland Coliseum in California, California on Saturday.Needing 14 runs off the final over, Washington looked favourites after…
Safdarjung Hospital issues Sonam Wangchuk health update NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk remains in stable condition but continues to need sustained medical intervention and continuous monitoring after his prolonged hunger strike, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital said on Sunday, while sharing his health update.Wangchuk was shifted to Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday after Delhi Police removed him…
The flooding followed continuous heavy rain that began on Saturday evening. (PTI) Heavy overnight rain triggered flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district early on Sunday, forcing hundreds of residents to move to safer places after rivers overflowed and flooded low-lying areas.Officials said floodwaters entered several parts of Rajouri town, including the new bus…
In celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “El Aleph”, the eponymous character is a mystical point in space that contains all other points in the universe, allowing whoever looks into it to see every place on Earth from every angle simultaneously without distortion.According to the giant of Latin American literature who died on…
Skyroot Aerospace CEO and founder Pawan Kumar Chandana and co-founder Naga Bharath Daka speak with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the phone from Sriharikota after the successful maiden launch NEW DELHI: “When I took the bold step of privatising the space sector, I was discouraged not to go ahead, I was told it could not…
