The British government is set to increase visa fees across most categories of applications from March 18, in a move that will affect thousands of Indians who were the largest group of skilled workers to be granted visas to live and work in Britain last year. The changes, proposed in January this year, mean a 2 per cent rise for […]
» Read moreNancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and her husband’s Alzheimer’s disease, died on Sunday at age 94. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, said a spokeswoman for the Reagan presidential library. She died at her Los Angeles home. […]
» Read moreIn second such detention within a week, 31 Indian fishermen were, on Sunday, arrested by the Sri Lankan Naval personnel on the charge of fishing in the island nation’s waters, Tamil Nadu fisheries officials said. The fishermen, 22 from Tuticorin and nine from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, were taken into custody along with their three country boats and a mechanised […]
» Read moreThe most expensive train station in the world opens today at the site of the World Trade Center destroyed 14 years ago in the 9/11 attacks. Twelve years in the making, there will be no official ceremony to mark the 3 pm opening to rail commuters of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub next to the site of the Twin […]
» Read moreAfghan security forces on Wednesday killed four suicide bombers who targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, following an attack in which at least two people were killed and 19 wounded, officials said. The violence, coming just days after dozens of people were killed or wounded in suicide attacks in the capital, Kabul, and the eastern province […]
» Read moreA US appeals court on Friday overturned a $120 million jury verdict against Samsung, finally handing the South Korean smartphone maker a significant win in its longstanding patent feud with top rival Apple. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, said Samsung Electronics did not infringe Apple’s “quick links” patent, and that two other patents covering […]
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