It is not only Australia that is behind in processing student visas and grappling to clear the monument of backlog in that area, Canada is also facing similar problems. As many Western countries continue to struggle to get back to pre-COVID normal, hundreds of thousands of Indian international students inRead More →
A visiting 70-year-old Nirmal Singh was brutally attacked in an unprovoked attack in New York. He was left with a bloodied face and clothes in an incident being investigated as a possible hate crime, according to officials of the New York City Department. The Consulate General of India in NewRead More →
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce that Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given toRead More →
It has started to sound like routine when an Indian is appointed to head an American, global company. After decades of such accomplishments by Indians in the US, comes the latest feather in India’s cap – Parag Agrawal being appointed as the new CEO of Twitter. Parag was Twitter’s ChiefRead More →
An Indian man in the UK, who stabbed his wife multiple times before driving to a nearby street where he left her body on the pavement has been jailed after pleading guilty to murder. Kashish Aggarwal, 28, attacked his wife Geetika Goyal at their home in Wintersdale Road, Leicester, onRead More →
As COP 26 draws near, a number of Australian politicians have endorsed the new Plant Based Treaty which calls on world leaders to negotiate and implement a global agreement about a transition to a plant based economy. Emma Hurst, MLC who is issuing a notice of motion in the NSWRead More →
Who would have thought McDonald’s Restaurants would run out milk, and thus shakes? If this COVID pandemic and its new normal was not hitting home hard enough, the post-Brexit EU realities have hit Britain even harder. Under the new arrangement, the government implemented changes to the immigration rules and stoppedRead More →
Defying the US intelligence reports, the Taliban have swept into Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and wrested control from the government which collapsed after the embattled president left the country and its people to fend for themselves. Heavily armed Taliban fighters swamped the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace. AccordingRead More →
Paul A Gosar, a Congressman in the United States has foreign students (studying in the US) in his sights. Currently many of the international students studying in the US are eligible to stay on in the US after completing their studies under a program administered by the US Immigration andRead More →
British born American John McAfee, founder of McAfee Antivirus software, a fugitive at the time of his death was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona, Spain. The death is being labelled as suicide. McAfee was wanted in the US for multiple legal cases and was fighting his extradition toRead More →