The United States said Monday it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall because of the coronavirus crisis. “Non immigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States,” US Immigration and Custom Enforcement said in a statement. “Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status,” ICE…
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An elephant from Tamil Nadu has set the internet on fire with her adorable and unique haircut. Yes, you read that right. According to Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Sudha Ramen, the gentle giant is popularly known as Bob-cut Sengamalam, and she has a fan club just for her fringed hairstyle. She earned the name owing to her unusual hairstyle, which is maintained by her mahout, S Rajagopal. According to Mannai Online, Sengamalam arrived at the Rajagopalaswamy Temple in 2003. The IFS officer recently took to Twitter to share her pictures, and since then the tweet has gone crazy viral.…
India has crossed the seven lakh-mark in novel coronavirus cases, with the 3,827 new cases reported by Monday evening taking the total number of cases in the country to 7,01,240. Of these, over 2.5 lakh are active cases and 19,693 are deaths linked to the virus. The number of people to have successfully recovered from the infectious COVID-19 virus is around 4.24 lakh. It has taken just four days for India to record one lakh new COVID-19 cases, with more than 20,000 new cases reported every day since July 3 and over 24,000 detected in each of the past two.…
Arrested Jammu and Kashmir DySP Davinder Singh was “being groomed by Pakistani officials for obtaining sensitive information” and had helped Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) terrorists obtain weapons from across the border, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has told a special court in Jammu. It has also said one of the accused arrested in the case was tasked by Pakistan’s High Commission in Delhi to create unrest in the Valley in the wake of abrogation of Article 370. The agency on Monday filed its first chargesheet in the case, about six months after Singh was arrested along with HuM terrorist Naveed Babu as…
Over 8 lakh Indians could be forced out of Kuwait if a new bill on expats is enacted into law, the Gulf News reported. The legal and legislative committee of Kuwait’s National Assembly has approved the draft expat quota bill, according to which Indians should not exceed 15% of the population. Anti-expat rhetoric has been on the rise since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic with lawmakers and government officials call for reducing the number of foreigners in Kuwait. The bill has been deemed constitutional and will now be transferred to the respective committee so that a comprehensive plan is…
On Sunday afternoon, the West Bengal police had reportedly arrested 13 people in connection to the deaths of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker and a socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) member, following a violent clash between the two sides at Kultali in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. The violent clash took place at the backdrop of a protest by SUCI against misappropriation of funds, meant for the victims of cyclone Amphan, by the TMC. During the scuffle on Friday, a 46-year-old TMC leader Ashwini Manna was killed. On Saturday, the house of one 58-year-old Sudhanshu Jana was set…
President J. P. Nadda on Monday addressed a virtual rally in West Bengal via video conferencing on the birth anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee and took a jibe at the Mamata government. “Dr Mookerjee fought the Bengal famine in 1943 with everything he had and served the people tirelessly day and night. He was made the President of the Relief Committee then,” Nadda said. He said it used to be told what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. It was only possible because of leaders like Mookerjee, who were born in Bengal. “Today the issues we are fighting over are…
Viewers will soon see the Mahabharat sequence on Star Bharat’s RadhaKrishn, where Krishna will tell Radha the epic tale of the victory of dharma over adharma. This new chapter of RadhaKrishn will be called Arjun-Krishna Gatha. Actors to play pivotal roles in this new chapter have been shortlisted and some have even begun shooting for the show. The cast includes Ishita Ganguly, Kinshuk Vaidya and Malhar Pandya, among others. Actor Krrip Suri, who was last seen in Vish, will be playing Duryodhan on the show. The actor reached the sets in Umbergaon on June 29. Talking about his preparation to…
NSA Ajit Doval held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday before withdrawal began in Galwan zone. The withdrawal along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with the Chinese soldiers pulling over from Galwan came after National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval’s call with the Chinese remote clergyman Wang Yi on Sunday. According to sources in the administration, NSA Ajit Doval talked with the Chinese Foreign Minister over a call on Sunday before China evacuated tents and pulled back its soldiers from Galwan Valley. NSA Doval and the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a two-hour discussion, the…
in China has withdrawn its troops by at least a kilometer in the tense Galwan river valley in eastern Ladakh, where 20 soldiers were killed in action in a deadly brawl with Chinese troops on June 15, sources said on Monday. Indian soldiers have also pulled back and a buffer zone has been created between the troops of both sides, according to the sources. “We will need to wait to see if this is a lasting, genuine disengagement,” said the sources. Temporary structures built by Chinese soldiers at the illegally occupied site at the river-bend embankment are being removed by…