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international universities with fewer Indian students. Shreya Pattar, founder of Shreya Pattar Ventures, shared her views on X, formerly known as Twitter, stating, «Any Indian student planning to move abroad for higher education should check how many Indian students that university has. The more the number of Indian students, the lower that university should be on your list of places to join. A big Indian community of students doesn’t come with a “homely” feeling.» Think you check all the immigration boxes? Find out

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, in June, is going to feel different. For the first time in the history of the cricket World Cups – both 50-over and 20-over versions – the deaf and visually impaired people of country will be able to experience their favourite sport better than ever as the broadcasters – Star Sports and Disney+ Hotstar – have added features to interpret live commentary for those who can’t hear or see. Disney Star has joined hands with India Signing Hands (ISH), a Mumbai-based broadcast company, to add Indian Sign Language (ISL) interpretation to its feed. There will be an audio descriptive feed for the visually impaired fans. The announcement was made on the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which is observed on the third Thursday of May.

Indian Americans in elected offices is not reflective of their growing population, US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday, urging the members of the minority ethnic community to run for elected offices increasingly. Harris, who is of both Indian and African heritage, was speaking at "Desis Decide" — the annual summit of Indian American Impact, a democratic party think tank, that supports and funds Indian Americans running for elected offices across the country. «Over the years, we've had so much more participation by Indian Americans in the electoral process running for office. But the numbers are still not reflective of the size of the growing population,» Harris, the first-ever Indian American, African American, and a woman to be elected as the vice president of the US told a packed room of Indian Americans in the national capital. Currently, there are five elected Indian American members of the Congress — Dr Ami Bera, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal, and Shri Thanedar. Impact believed that in 2024, the Indian American strength in the Congress will increase to 10 members.

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PM Modi's Nashik visit. “On August 19, 2023, the Union government had imposed a 40% duty on the export of onions. On October 28, 2023 a new decision was made instead requiring the exporter to pay the government $800 per tonne of onion instead.

A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it

dating app or do you go with the flow? Dating App Tinder has revealed in one of their surveys that both men and women have misconceptions about what the other wants. This has been reported by ‘USA Today’. The Green Flags Study which was released on Wednesday surveyed over 8000 heterosexual men and women in the US, Canada, UK and Australia to understand the preferences of each other and found out that individuals are quick to make assumptions of the opposite sex.

The Vermont legislature has passed one of the strongest data privacy measures in the country, aimed at cracking down on companies’ use of online personal data

The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges for his role in a vast bribery conspiracy to siphon over a billion dollars from the state-owned oil company

Slovakia’s government approved a plan to build another nuclear reactor in a country that relies heavily on nuclear electricity generation

Morocco has grown its automotive industry from virtually non-existent to Africa’s largest in less than two decades

Indonesian authorities have seeded clouds in a bid to prevent further rainfall after flash floods that hit the country's Sumatra Island over the weekend left at least 59 people dead

Narendra Modi on Wednesday alleged that Congress was planning to allocate 15% of the country's budget to Muslims, adding while he was accused of doing Hindu-Muslim politics, it was the Opposition party that was guilty of doing it. «Congress is doing the Hindu-Muslim politics… Their ecosystem is claiming that Modi is doing Hindu-Muslim talk but Modi is exposing those (Congress) who are doing Hindu-Muslim to break the country,» he said in an election rally in Kalyan. Earlier, he also addressed a rally in Nashik. «Congress wants to do a budget for Hindus and a budget for Muslims,» he alleged. «Congress was doing this sin that I opposed and if Congress and the Indi Alliance come to power, they will do the same. Do we want to keep the country together or not, is it good to divide Indians like this?» he said.

Indian citizenship on Wednesday under the newly notified Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019. While the first set of 14 people received it in the national capital, the rest were granted nationality digitally in other parts of the country. Some of the applications were cleared even before the notification of the rules in March this year, officials said. Home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla handed over the certificates to the 14 people in the national capital after their applications were processed online through a designated portal, an official spokesperson said. Sources said the Election Commission of India (ECI) was intimated regarding the grant of citizenship certificates since the model code of conduct was in force.

PSUs) are readying a coordinated strategy to secure overseas critical mineral assets. Coal India Ltd. (CIL), National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), besides Khanij Bidesh India Ltd.

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is part of India and it will be taken back, Union home minister Amit Shah asserted on Wednesday. Shah said this while speaking at a rally in Serampore, West Bengal. On Wednesday, he addressed another rally at Aska in Odisha. PoK recently witnessed protests where the «azaadi» slogans were raised, Shah said in Serampore.

Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin is prepared to negotiate over the conflict in Ukraine, in an interview with Chinese media on the eve of visit to partner Beijing that has backed Moscow in its full-scale invasion of its neighbour. «We are open to a dialogue on Ukraine, but such negotiations must take into account the interests of all countries involved in the conflict, including ours,» Putin was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency on Wednesday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the BJP wants to destroy the Constitution and remove the reservation provided to tribals, Dalits, and backward class. Gandhi was addressing a public meeting in Bolangir, Odisha. «BJP wants to tear this book, but we in the Congress and the people of India will not allow it,» Gandhi said while holding a copy of the Constitution in his hand.

Nirmala Sitharaman Wednesday said the government significantly increased the outlay for capital expenditure (capex) over the last 10 years to build quality infrastructure in the country, which had a significant multiplier effect on economy and investment, besides improving ease of living. She said the share of capex in overall expenditure went up to over 21% in 2023-24 as against just 12% in 2013-14 during the UPA regime, when infrastructure development remained grossly neglected. «Since 2014, our govt has allocated a total of ₹43.53 lakh crore in Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) capital expenditure, an increase of 3.72 times compared to 2004-14,» she said in a long post on social media platform X.

Power Finance Corporation (PFC), the country's largest lender to the power sector, said the Reserve Bank's recent draft guidelines on infrastructure project financing will not impact its profitability. The company said it has sufficient capital adequacy to counter the provision if it gets implemented. «We are examining those guidelines in detail, but what we understand is that these guidelines have been issued for the projects under implementation. I would like to say that in such a case, we are not going to have any impact on the profitability,» said Parminder Chopra, chairperson and MD of Power Finance Corp.

Karachi...," Kamal, a leader of Muttahida Quami Movement Pakistan (MQM-P), said in his speech. The MQM-P leader posted a video of his speech during Pakistan's National Assembly session on Facebook on Wednesday. WATCH VIDEO HERE: Mustafa Kamal said this in reference to the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission launched by India in August last year.