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Washington, Apr 8: The US government is believed to have received about 250,000 petitions for H-1B visas –- the most sought after American work visas -– with a majority of them being from either Indian companies or having huge footprint in India. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services yesterday said it has reached the Congressional mandated cap for H-1B visas in the general category and also

New Delhi, Apr 8: Information received from anonymous individuals in Pakistan, after photos of the slain Pathankot terrorists were put up on the National Investigation Agency (NIA) website, was crucial in identifying four Pakistan terrorists who stormed the airbase, a senior government official said. The NIA had published the photographs of the deceased terrorists on its website last month

Mumbai, Apr 7: The Bombay High Court today declined to stay the IPL opening match on April 9 here as sought by a public interest litigation challenging use of large quantity of water for maintaining pitches despite the grave water crisis in Maharashtra due to drought. The PIL, filed by Loksatta Movement, sought shifting of IPL matches out of Maharashtra and wanted a stay on the matches scheduled

New Delhi, Apr 7: Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders, who were summoned as accused in a criminal defamaiton case filed against them by Union Minister Arun Jaitley, were today granted bail by a Delhi court. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass granted the relief to Kejriwal and AAP leaders Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Kumar Vishwas, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpai, on a

New Delhi, Apr 7: The cost of studying at the prestigious IIT or Indian Institute of Technology will be more than doubled. A decision has been taken to raise the IIT fee from Rs. 90,000 to Rs. 2 lakh a year, officials in the education ministry said on Thursday. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students, those with disabilities and students from extremely poor families may not need to pay fees

News Delhi, Apr 7: A consortium of banks led by State Bank of India today rejected the proposal in the current form offered by liquor baron Vijay Mallya and his companies to pay Rs 4,000 crore by September towards settlement of his loan before the Supreme Court, which directed him to disclose his total assets by April 21. The consortium also asked the Supreme Court that directions be passed to

Jammu, Apr 7: Several organisations including JKNPP, JPPF and Sri Ram Sena today called for Jammu bandh today in protest against the alleged police action on outstation students at NIT in Srinagar. "We unanimously decided to observe complete Bandh in Jammu on April 7," Jammu Province People's Forum (JPPF) Working President M S Katoch told reporters here today. Katoch appealed to all Jammuites to

Hyderabad, Apr 6: Tension prevailed near the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) today after scores of students belonging to different organisations held protests demanding arrest of the Vice Chancellor and tried to forcibly enter the varsity even as police took them into preventive custody. In another development, Controller of Examination Professor V Krishna, expressing solidarity with the

Srinagar, Apr 6: Unrest was witnessed again today at NIT Srinagar, the scene of last week's clash, with outstation students expressing a sense of insecurity and attempting to leave the campus, leading to a confrontation with police which resorted to lathicharge in which some were injured. With the situation being tense, CRPF was tonight deployed at campus and Jammu and Kashmir government assured

New Delhi, Apr 5: India has told the UN that Jaish-e- Mohammed chief Masood Azhar was one of the handlers of the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot airbase and his outfit received arms training from Taliban. In its failed bid to have Masood designated as terrorist by the UN, India has conveyed to the world body that he and his terrorist group JeM have continuously engineered terror attacks