Representative image. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A federal judge on Monday (June 8, 2026) struck down a $100,000 fee that U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax that Congress never authorised. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the Union govt’s reply in the Rajya Sabha on the proposed Mekedatu dam.Vijay wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narenda Modi contending that the response ignored settled legal principles governing inter-state…
Veteran actress Anita Kanwal recently opened up about knowing Shah Rukh Khan since his Delhi theatre days, helping casting people connect with him during his struggling years, and the harsh realities faced by character actors in the entertainment industry today.In a conversation with Siddharth Kannan, Anita also spoke about the changing culture of Bollywood, and…
(L-R) Varun Chakravarthy, Akash Deep and Nitish Kumar Reddy are currently at BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru. New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India‘s (BCCI) Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru is buzzing with activity, and the facility is bracing for a heavy influx of contracted and targeted players in the…
Chennai: Six chief minister’s co-working spaces across North Chennai, built by the previous DMK govt, will soon be opened to the public. Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has floated tenders to outsource housekeeping for a year while retaining technical and administrative control.The facilities will come up in Purasaiwalkam, Periyar Nagar, Otteri, Pulianthope, Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar, and Kolathur….
CHENNAI: A guest worker was killed, and four others sustained severe burn injuries after a boiler exploded at a steel melting unit in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate in Gummidipoondi on Tuesday.The four injured workers suffered serious burn injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. The explosion triggered panic among workers in the…
Salman Khan was recently seen accepting an apology from paparazzi after expressing anger over their alleged invasion of privacy during a hospital visit. The incident took place at the success party of Raja Shivaji in Mumbai on Wednesday, where photographers apologised to the actor for their behaviour a day earlier.As Salman arrived at the event,…
Chennai: Central Crime Branch sleuths have busted an inter-state cyber fraud network by arresting a 35-year-old man from Manipur for using a fake mobile app to defraud people across India. Thounaojam Inaobi Singh was arrested in Bengaluru and remanded in Chennai on Monday.Singh played a key role in siphoning ₹20 lakh from the bank account…
Members of the forensics team arrive at the scene after, according to the police, gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Multiple attackers killed 12 people and wounded at least nine others in a late-night mass shooting in the South African city…
Iranian diplomats including Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Mohammad Javad Hosseini, arrive at MEA as Ministry of External Affairs summons them, over recent attack on merchant vessels in Hormuz, in New Delhi on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI After an Indian national was killed and 10 others were injured, including two seriously,…