An Indian-origin restaurant owner in Texas has sparked discussion online after revealing that her Indian restaurant has “almost no Indian staff” and explaining why she chooses not to hire employees based on nationality or ethnicity.Rashmi Bhat runs 7 Monk’s Cafe Texas and said in a viral Instagram video that her hiring approach often surprises people,…
A federal judge struck down H-1B visa fee as illegal. In a major blow to the Donald Trump administration and its plan to make H-1B visa program costlier, a federal judge declared that the $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers is unlawful and must…
A US federal judge on Monday struck down the $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump had imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, calling it unlawful.District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued a ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging the fee announced by Trump in…
A US State Department spokesperson recently said that no visa laws specifically target India — all new rules are being globally implemented. As India contributes the highest number of H-1B visa holders to the US, any change in the H-1B visa rule affects Indi first. The social media vetting introduced in December 2025 pushed H-1B…
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo-AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is once again scrambling to preserve a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran, insisting that a broader peace agreement is within reach even as renewed missile exchanges, mutual threats, and deep mistrust continue to push the Middle East toward another dangerous…
24 Indian seafarers aboard a vessel reportedly attacked off the coast of Oman (image credit X)) An unladen oil tanker, MT Marivex, with 24 Indian crew members, was disabled and later caught fire in the Gulf of Oman on Monday after a US military action, according to officials.The US military said an F/A-18 Super Hornet…
The Jeffrey Epstein saga has once again reached the highest levels of American politics, with former President George W. Bush becoming linked to questions surrounding the pedophile’s controversial treatment by the justice system.A new report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julie K. Brown, published in the Miami Herald, suggests that senior officials within Bush’s Department of…
Marc Aaronson (Image source: researchgate.net) There are certain quotes that make people pause because they seem to challenge a habit that most of us have. This quote by Marc Aaronson is one of them. It does not offer comfort. It does not suggest a careful plan. Instead, it asks readers to think about how much…
It begins, as so many Jeffrey Epstein stories do, in a room where power recognised power. In this case, the room was reportedly the Plaza Hotel in New York in the early 1990s. A young woman from Texas, Melanie Starnes, later Dr Melanie Walker, has told people that she was introduced there to Epstein by…
A routine shift at a McDonald’s restaurant turned horrific when a 20-year-old employee was doused with scalding hot oil by a co-worker in an unprovoked attack.Jacob Smith remains in ICU more than a week after suffering second-degree burns to his face, neck, arm and back during the incident on 30 May in Yuba City, California….
