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US to permit H-1B Spouses to Work from May 26
In a move that brought cheer to Indian techies, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that spouses of H-1B and a handful of other visa holders will be eligible to work from May 26.
"The Department of Homeland…
Chadian Army kill 207 Boko Haram Militants in Nigeria
At least 207 Boko Haram militants were killed by Chadian army in Nigeria Tuesday, according to a Chadian army statement released Tuesday night.
The statement said many military equipments were recovered, including one tank equipped with…
IS Militant Group serious threat to Pakistan: Foreign Secretary
Shortly after Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan denied the presence of the Islamic State (IS) in South Asia, particularly Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry has said the militant group poses a serious threat…
IS Militants kidnap 56 Christians in Syria
The Islamic State (IS) militants Monday kidnapped 56 Syrian Christians of Assyrian minority in Al-Hasakah province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Assyrians were abducted from the town of Tal Shamiram in the…
Reuters’ Pakistan-Afghanistan Bureau Chief found dead
Maria Golovnina, Islamabad-based bureau chief of Reuters for Pakistan and Afghanistan, was found dead in her office-cum-residence in the capital’s F-8 sector, police sources said Monday. Golovnina had reportedly gone to the toilet, and had…
10 People killed, 8 injured in Abu Dhabi Fire Tragedy
Ten people were killed and eight injured when a fire ripped through an illegal workers' accommodation in the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) capital Abu Dhabi, according to media reports. The blaze started Friday on the first floor of a…
IS Militants burn 43 People to Death in Iraq
Islamic State (IS) militants burned up to 43 people alive in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said Saturday. Earlier, IS fighters captured the 43 Iraqis from the albu-Obeid Sunni tribe in the battlefield town…
Indian-American Professor gets Top US Chemistry Award
Purnendu Dasgupta, a Jenkins Garrett professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded the 2015 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education.…
Russia flays EU suggestion on India intervening on Ukraine
Russia Friday slammed a reported call of the European Union's envoy to India to "persuade" Russia over the turmoil in eastern Ukraine as "a case of sheer duplicity and sly distortion of the core reasons which led to the intra-Ukrainian…
Fire breaks out at Marina Tower in Dubai
One of the world's tallest buildings in Dubai's Marina district caught fire Saturday as thousands of residents were evacuated from the Marina Torch and adjacent buildings. Fire broke out on the 57th floor of the 79-storey tower at 2.00…