The Plight of Indian Emigrants in the Middle East
Representational Pic Nagpur: In the past few decades, international migration has become increasingly commonplace, particularly in India. Hundreds of thousands of young Indian men and women are emigrating to developed or wealthier countries in search of a better life, new...
After US, Australia goes tough on Indian job seekers, scraps 457 visa programme
Representational pic Melbourne: In yet another big blow to the Indian job seekers looking for positions in Australia, the country has abolished its popular employer-sponsored 457 visa programme, widely used by Indians. Australia has also replaced this programme with much...
Indians are an unhappy lot, but Pakistanis get more joyful: UN report
File Pic New Delhi: Indians, it appears, are getting unhappier by the year, while their not-so-well-off neighbours in Pakistan are becoming more joyful, shows the latest United Nations ranking of the world's happiest countries. India, which dropped four places in...
Trump scraps Obama-era amnesty prog; 7,000 Indians to be hit
Washington: United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama-era amnesty programme that granted work permits to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children, a move likely to impact 800,000 undocumented workers including more than 7,000 Indian-Americans. "I...
H-1B visa: Bill introduced seeking exemption for non-US citizens with PhD from American universities
Washington: A bill has been re-introduced in the House of Representatives that seeks exemption for foreign- born persons with an American Ph.D. in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from the limits on the number of employment-based green cards and H-1B...
