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Green Card crackdown on major IT giants including Microsoft shakes Silicon Valley. Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa strongly reacted to the Donald Trump administration’s suspension PERM program for eight IT giants, including Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capegemini and said that these companies are not the visa abusers. The visa abusers are…

Federal executive created fake program, diverted $145M; FBI found 298 gold bars in $193.6M fraud (Image Credit: USAO EDVA) A former senior federal employee with a top-secret security clearance has pleaded guilty to defrauding the US government of approximately $193.6 million, allegedly using fabricated government authorities to obtain money for himself. According to the US…

Indian-origin doctor mom arrested and charged in Florida for a child’s drowning under her watch. A Louisiana doctor, Sukanthini Subbiah, has been arrested by the Orlando Police Department in Florida and charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter as she was present when seven-year-old Khushil Bandi drowned. The incident took place on April 10 but the arrest…

JD Vance recently criticized Microsoft for relying on foreign workers instead of hiring Americans TOI correspondent from Washington: On the same day US vice president JD Vance put Microsoft in the crosshairs over its use of foreign workers, his boss Donald Trump was preparing to honour the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, with America’s highest technology…

Walt Disney’s plan for what would become Walt Disney World began with a remarkably quiet real-estate operation. According to Disney’s D23 archives, the Florida Historical Society and the Walt Disney Company, Disney Productions spent about 18 months secretly assembling more than 27,000 acres in Central Florida before publicly acknowledging that it was behind the purchases….

The oldest definitive animal fossils date to around 574 million years ago, just before the dramatic diversification associated with the Cambrian Period. The animal kingdom may have started its journey on a much earlier Earth than scientists once thought. Long before recognisable creatures appeared in the fossil record, and perhaps before the planet was plunged…

Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage has closed after 74 years following financial difficulties and a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. (Photo: Google Maps) A 74-year-old private school in Southern California has been put up for sale for $14 million, just months after abruptly shutting its doors and filing for bankruptcy.The former campus of Palm Valley…

US House bill proposes raising serious H-1B violation fines from $35,000 to $250,000 and extending employer bans from at least 3 years to 10 years as Washington’s visa crackdown intensifies. A Republican lawmaker in the US House has introduced legislation that would significantly increase the penalties facing employers found to have committed serious violations of…

Her lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said police pointed guns at Doe’s father, brother and boyfriend after responding to the bogus emergency call. The FBI is also looking into the incident. Cornell’s Jane Doe is terrified after armed police swarmed her parents’ home on Tuesday night following a fake call claiming a man had shot and killed…

Two Latvian nationals arrested on suspicion of trespass at RAF Molesworth. British counter-terrorism police are investigating after two Latvian men were arrested near RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, a military base that houses US and Nato intelligence operations, police said Thursday.The men, aged 32 and 36, were found inside the base after Ministry of Defence Police…