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Medical students, uprooted from Ukraine, find options in other countries

Lucknow: Medical students who had been forced to give up their studies in Ukraine following the ongoing war in the region, are now pursuing MBBS in countries like Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia…
WhatsApp to let users share media files in original quality

San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that will let users share photos and videos as a document on iOS to maintain their original quality. According to the official…

Top US Congressmen introduce bill to reduce green card backlog

Washington: Three influential Congressmen, including Indian-Americans Raja Krishnamoorthi and Pramila Jayapal, have introduced bipartisan legislation in the US House of Representatives to reduce green card backlog and end country-based discrimination for employment-based…
Mark Zuckerberg sells nearly USD190 mn in Meta’s shares

San Francisco: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sold around USD190 million in the company’s stock last month, the media reported. Zuckerberg sold Meta shares every day in November, for a total…
British government makes it tougher for Indians to work in UK

London: An estimated 300,000 non-Britons – many of them Indians – will be affected by the British government on Monday raising the bar for people eligible to apply for skilled worker visas…
1 of 3 Palestinian students shot at Vermont paralyzed

Hisham Awartani, one of the three Palestinian students who were shot on November 25 night in Burlington, Vermont, is paralyzed from the chest down. 20-year-old Hisham of Brown University, along with his two friends—…
Saudi Arabia: Haj 2024 registration opens for America, Australia, Europe

Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Monday, December 4, opened online registrations for pilgrims from America, Europe and Australia for Haj 1445 AH/2024 season. Taking to X, the Saudi Ministry…

Indian-origin Dave Sharma officially sworn in as senator in Australia

Canberra: Indian-origin former MP Dave Sharma was officially sworn in on Monday as a senator for New South Wales (NSW) in the Australian Parliament. Sharma, 47, defeated former state treasurer Andrew Constance…
UK to start Gaza surveillance flights to locate captives held by Hamas

Tel Aviv: The military in the United Kingdom (UK) will operate surveillance flights over Gaza to help locate captives held by Hamas, Al Jazeera reported quoting the British Ministry of Defence. The…
Oxford University Press names ‘Rizz’ as word of the year

London: After more than 32,000 votes and a team of language experts, Oxford’s Word of the Year 2023 is “rizz” — an internet slang which pertains to someone’s ability to attract another…
5 bodies found underwater in search for missing US Osprey crew in Japan

Tokyo: In search for the US military Osprey aircraft that crashed last week in the waters off southwestern Japan, the bodies of five missing crew members were found to be located underwater,…
‘Toughen up’: Indian-origin billionaire backs Narayana Murthy’s 70-hr work week advice

New Delhi: Indian-American businessman and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla has backed Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy’s suggestion that India’s youth must work 70 hours every week to improve the country’s…
Japan confirms season’s 4th bird flu outbreak

Tokyo: Japan has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a poultry farm in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, local media reported. The Kagoshima prefectural government said that work to…
Grand Imam, Pope call for robust climate action at COP28

Dubai: His Holiness Pope Francis and the the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb have signed a declaration of support for urgent climate action, giving video addresses to the UN Climate Change…
10 killed as passenger bus in Pakistan comes under gunfire

At least 10 people were killed and 25 others injured when a passenger bus came under gunfire by unidentified assailants on the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, the media reported on…