Washington: The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) has welcomed tighter scrutiny of H-1B visa applications, but cautioned that it should not come at the cost of American innovation, as jobs requiring highly specialised skills cannot always be filled immediately from the available domestic labour pool. The statement from FIIDS, an advocacy group,…
New Delhi: Domestic LPG consumers will have to complete biometric Aadhaar authentication to book refills at the regulated retail selling price with applicable subsidy from October 1, the government said on Saturday, as it seeks to ensure subsidised cooking gas reaches only eligible households. Consumers who have already completed the authentication will not need to…
Indore (MP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met the family of a student from Madhya Pradesh who died in the Satya Niketan building collapse in Delhi during his ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ programme here, and blamed the tragic incident on the shortage of government hostels. A multi-storey building housing paying guest accommodation collapsed in Delhi’s…
An Aggrieved Parent The announcement of Hyderabad’s Ranji Trophy squad, with Mohammed Siraj taking over the captaincy, has inevitably brought one notable omission into focus — Shaunak Kulkarni. Shaunak is not a name that has suddenly appeared on the Hyderabad cricket radar. He has progressed through the local cricket structure, performed consistently in the leagues…
K S Nagarajan Should a citizen keep knocking at the doors of justice to strengthen the fulcrum of the Constitution, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Bharat—or should he simply give up when institutions meant to protect his rights appear unwilling to hear him? This is the question I am confronting as a former government servant…
After watching Andhra Pradesh and national politics closely for nearly four decades, I have learnt one basic lesson: political parties are rarely born in a vacuum. Some emerge from a long ideological struggle, some from sustained organisational work, some from social movements—and some from a particular political moment that suddenly creates space for a new…
Imagine a torrent of over 100 million cubic metres of rock, ice, and mud rushing down a narrow canyon at a whopping speed of more than 170 km/h. You would have virtually no chance of outrunning it. This is what happened on 26 August 2026 in the Nepal Himalaya, 60 kilometres north of Kathmandu. At…
Kidneys can lose 90% of their function without any warning. You can indeed lose a significant part of your kidney function and still wake up feeling completely normal the next morning. You may be eating normally. Sleeping normally. Passing urine normally. There may be no pain, no fever, and no obvious swelling. And yet, quietly,…
The conclusion that US pressure has finally paid off—while this is a compelling one—is a compelling one, but a September 14th Finance Ministry notification requires some caution. The notification prohibits banks and payment system providers from imposing direct or indirect fees on UPI transactions and RuPay debit card payments up to ₹2,000. However, no immediate…
Mukhya Praana and his Avataara-s This is an article series. Please read all previous articles before reading this article. The URLs for all previous articles are located in the SPECIAL THOUGHTS section. Earlier, we had started pondering over Mukhya Praana. Mukhya Praana is destined to ascend to the position of Chaturmukha Brahma in the next…
