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In Georgia, Biden’s presidency meets early defining moment

2:45 pm January 2, 2021

Atlanta : Usually it’s a president’s first midterm election that reorders a White House’s political approach and priorities. For President-elect Joe Biden, his most defining congressional election is coming before he takes office. Two runoffs Tuesday in Georgia will decide which party controls the Senate and, thus, how far the new president can reach legislatively on […]

US group opposes Biden admin's steps on H1B visas

Trump extends freeze on H-1B, other work visas until March 31; Indian IT professionals to be hit

3:14 pm January 1, 2021

Washington : US President Donald Trump has extended the freeze on the most sought-after H-1B visas by Indian IT professionals, along with other types of foreign work visas and green cards through March 31 to protect American workers, saying that the reasons for which he had imposed such restrictions amidst the pandemic has not changed. The freeze on various categories of work visas […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump extends visa sanctions on countries refusing to repatriate their nationals

11:57 am December 31, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump has extended visa sanctions on countries refusing to repatriate their citizens who violated laws in the United States. The visa sanctions on such countries were set to expire on December 31. Trump had issued a memorandum in this regard on April 10 which empowered the secretary of state and the homeland security secretary […]

US court shuts down fraud scheme targeting elderly Americans via India-based call centers

2:25 pm December 30, 2020

New York: A US court has ordered the permanent shut down of a technical-support fraud scheme, masterminded by an American citizen and operated through call centres in India, that allegedly defrauded hundreds of elderly and vulnerable Americans. The US Justice Department said on Tuesday the District Court entered the order of permanent injunction against Michael […]

Biden criticizes pace of vaccine rollout, vows to accelerate

12:21 pm December 30, 2020

Wilmington : President-elect Joe Biden has criticised the Trump administration for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines and predicted that “things will get worse before they get better” when it comes to the pandemic. “We need to be honest — the next few weeks and months are going to be very tough, very tough for our nation. Maybe the […]