About 7,300 Indian tech workers returned home in the first half of 2026, staffing trackers say, as a proposed $100,000 sponsorship fee and tighter H-1B rules push talent toward India, Canada and the UAE, and US giants expand their Bengaluru hubs to absorb it.
Read more →Trump announced what he called the 'most crushing economic operation ever' against Iran, warning of 'tremendous economic consequences' for any country that gives Tehran a financial lifeline. India and China, two of the biggest buyers of Iranian oil, sit squarely in the blast radius.
Read more →California tech billionaires, with a Google co-founder leading the charge, are fighting a proposed one-time wealth tax meant to fund health-care services.
Read more →NPR reports the system for reporting problems in ICE detention has failed immigrants, which critics link to a wave of hunger strikes over conditions and rights violations.
Read more →Moderna and Merck's individualized mRNA vaccine, intismeran autogene, paired with Keytruda, hit its primary and key secondary endpoints in a 1,137-patient melanoma trial, cutting recurrence and distant metastasis. It is the first late-stage win for a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine.
Read more →NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies called off the attempt to capture and reboost the 22-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after their Link servicer lost attitude control and spun, with two of three reaction wheels failing. Swift is now expected to reenter the atmosphere later in 2026.
Read more →FBI agents seized former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell's phone and laptop at San Francisco airport and searched his Washington home under a warrant tied to a federal civil-rights investigation into sexual-misconduct allegations. Swalwell resigned from Congress and dropped his California governor bid in April.
Read more →EB-5 investment petitions filed by Sept 30, 2026 are grandfathered, locking in processing and priority dates even if the program lapses. For Indians on H-1B or F-1, filing alongside an I-485 can carry work authorization while the case is pending.
Read more →A Russian missile and drone barrage killed at least 16 people in and around Kyiv as Ukraine's stock of interceptors runs low and Moscow intensifies its strikes.
Read more →Russia's air war has shifted to Ukraine's supermarket warehouses, leaving bare grocery shelves as a new wartime hardship after years of strikes on power plants and cities.
Read more →Discovery's two-part 'Declassified: Operation Sindoor' features NSA Ajit Doval and Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi giving first-hand accounts of India's 88-hour response to the Pahalgam attack. Pakistan's military dismissed it as theatrical.
Read more →The Hindu traces Sajjan Kumar's path from Congress veteran to convict, from his 2018 surrender to his conviction over the 1984 killing of five members of a Sikh family and the burning of a gurdwara.
Read more →Modi urged India to develop its own drones and hypersonic technology rather than stay a market for others, sharpening the Atmanirbhar self-reliance pitch just after Independence Day.
Read more →A Trump envoy's comments during a Kashmir visit have set off a US-Pakistan spat, with Islamabad saying they contradict Washington's stated position while analysts call it a diplomatic misstep.
Read more →Karishma Mehta's Humans of Bombay, the storytelling platform with 7,000-plus stories and a seven-million audience, has rebranded its wider business as The Human Company, a full-stack content and brand-solutions firm.
Read more →Indian indie band When Chai Met Toast set a North American run, from Dallas on Sept 12 (Club Dada) to New York on Oct 2 (Bowery Ballroom), part of their Joy of Little Things tour.
Read more →Los Alamos National Laboratory named research scientist Sangeeta Negi its 2026 Battelle Inventor of the Year for EcoFite, a biological seed coating and spray that boosts crop growth and cuts fertilizer use.
Read more →Charuvi Agrawal's Charuvi Design Labs made 'Narasimha Awakens: The Legend of Prahlad' almost entirely in Unreal Engine 5 and without generative AI, spotlighted by The Hollywood Reporter India in Epic Games' 'Built in India' showcase.
Read more →Niagara Falls was lit in India's saffron, white and green for Independence Day, one of several North American landmarks, including One World Trade Center and Grand Central, marking the day.
Read more →'USA vs Raj,' directed and shot by Ravi K Chandran with Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty and starring Kabir Bedi and Shabana Azmi, is billed as the opening-night world premiere at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival.
Read more →'The Rotoris Room,' an hour-long film, gathers Vir Das, Saif Ali Khan, Grammy-winning sarod player Ayaan Ali Bangash, chef Prateek Sadhu of Naar and wildlife filmmaker Suyash Keshari on craft, discipline and legacy. It premiered in New York.
Read more →Sarina Jain, creator of the Masala Bhangra dance-fitness program, opened preorders for her book 'All You Need Is Balle Balle: How Movement Became My Superpower.'
Read more →Rupee Beer, the first Indian non-alcoholic beer in the US, won Silver at this year's USA Beer Ratings, named Best Brew for World Food.
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