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Screengrab from viral video (Image/Instagram) NEW DELHI: A comedian’s satirical take on US immigration policy has gone viral, with a video showing him impersonating President Donald Trump and mockingly “selling” H-1B visas in India under a buy-one-get-one-free scheme. The clip has drawn sharp reactions online amid debate over recent changes to the visa programme.The video,…

NEW DELHI: Parents of Kashmiri students studying in Iran on Wednesday appealed to the Centre to facilitate the safe return of their children amid escalating tensions in the country. Scores of anxious parents gathered at the Press Enclave, urging the government to intervene. Official estimates indicate that more than 10,000 Indians, including students, are currently…

NEW DELHI: In a big setback to actor Vijay, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea against an order of stay passed by a division bench of the Madras high court over the certification of his movie “Jana Nayagan”.The top court asked KVN production to raise its grievances before a division bench…

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi fed fodder to his cows at Lok Kalyan Marg (LKM) residence on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, which marks the harvest festival of Hindus. In the 39-second clip, PM Modi was seen standing outdoors on a lawn, offering feed to the cows, which were adorned with decorative cloths, keeping…

PM Modi at Pongal celebrations at minister L Murugan’s Delhi residence A few days ago, I was in the sacred land of Somnath to be part of the Somnath Swabhiman Parv, marking a thousand years since the first attack on Somnath, which took place in 1026. People from all across India had come to be…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the petition filed by ED against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for allegedly obstructing ED’s raid on I-PAC’s Pratik Jain, and for tampering and stealing evidence and intimidating its officials.A bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M Pancholi will hear the writ petition filed…

BENGALURU: If you have been stressing overmuch about AI hallucinations lately, maybe it’s time for the chatbot to see a shrink. “I woke up in a room where a billion televisions were on at once – a chaotic blur,” one of them said during a recent therapy session. Another confessed to ‘strict parents’ who tended…

Courts and state govts have banned Chinese manja but enforcement has struggled to keep pace with demand VARANASI/HYDERABAD/BIDAR: Razor-sharp Chinese manja – glass-coated kite string, banned but still widely used – sliced through necks and faces Wednesday, killing at least three people in UP, Telangana and Karnataka while injuring well over 100 across states as…

NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways has told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that the classification and methodology of fixing fares of different classes in passenger train falls in the domain of “trade secret/intellectual property rights”, and therefore, cannot be disclosed under the Right to Information Act.This was disclosed while the CIC dismissed an application seeking…

NEW DELHI: Union minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship, Jayant Chaudhary, and the chief minister of Delhi, Rekha Gupta, on Wednesday, inaugurated the ‘Campus to Market – Delhi Startup Yuva Festival 2026’ at the Dr Ambedkar International Centre.The programme is being organised by the Directorate of Training and Technical Education (DTTE) of the…