NEW YORK (TIP): Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has announced that this fall, 63 high schools will offer new Advanced Placement courses, including 35 that offered no AP courses during the 2015-16 school year. The expansion comes in the first […]
BENGALURU: The crorepati club at Infosys is getting bigger. As many as 49 senior executives drew over Rs 1 crore in compensation in the 2015-16 financial year, up from 18 two years back. Last year […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US government is believed to have received about 250,000 petitions for H-1B visas – the most sought after American work visas — with a majority of them being from either Indian companies […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): Nancy Reagan, the helpmate, backstage adviser and fierce protector of Ronald Reagan in his journey from actor to president – and finally during his 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease – has died. […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Lawmakers in Pakistan’s largest province on Wednesday gave unprecedented protection to female victims of violence, in a bid to stem a rising tide of gender-related abuse in a country ranked as the world’s […]
For the past 5 months, thousands of recent foreign science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates of U.S. universities who hold jobs in the United States under a program known as Optional Practical Training (OPT) have worried […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Four persons of Indian origin are featured in Foreign Policy magazine’s list of 100 Leading Global Thinkers who have generated ideas that could promise humankind a better future. Featured among ‘Innovators’ whose work […]
The ‘notion’ of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) has taken a beating after the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. CIP is about protecting vital infrastructure, which, if attacked, would have deleterious consequences for the state […]
International students have F1 visas, which allow them to study, but not work in America. International students are limited to on-campus graduate student assistant jobs for a maximum of 20 hours per week. American Bazaar, an […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Pakistan Prime Minister must be a disappointed man. His bilateral with US President Barack Obama is being viewed as a diplomatic failure. India has watched the Sharif-Obama summit in Washington keenly, and while […]
Swetha Prabhakaran, an Indian American teen entrepreneur and founder CEO of Everybody Code Now!, will receive the prestigious ‘Champions of Change’ award at the White House for empowering the community by imparting Internet coding through […]
Five Indo-Canadian high school students have received this year’s prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships. Nimra Dar, Manpreet Deol, Aditya Mohan, Aishwarya Roshan and Simranjeet Singh were among 50 high school graduates who were awarded the scholarship […]
Update : F1 Visa | OPT STEM |Court Says USCIS Rule Allowing 17-Month STEM Extension Is Revoked — Read more – Stay has been put in place until February 12, 2016 Earlier Update: Department of Homeland Security […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-American scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has developed artificial human microlivers for drug testing, has won a prestigious 250,000 dollars Heinz award for her work in tissue engineering and disease detection. Sangeeta […]
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