External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is at the 72nd annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York. She held a triateral meeting with US and Japan and met foreign ministers of Denmark, Latvia, Bhutan and Tunisia. Swaraj is scheduled to address the UNGA on 23 September and head back home a day after her address.
Worries around the H-1B visa review continue, but if you’re looking to go to the US to work or study, your chances may not be as bleak as you may think. We spoke to Abhinav Lohia, Partner and Practice Chair of India and South East Asia, Davies and Associates, LLC, an immigration law firm based in New York City. Watch what he had to say.
A special education teacher and one of her students, an 8-year-old boy, were shot dead by her estranged husband on Monday when he opened fire in her classroom before killing himself at a San Bernardino elementary school in California, police said. A second student was wounded by the gunman who, authorities said, had a criminal history that included domestic violence and weapons charges. Police said the two students, both boys, were believed to have been inadvertently caught in the gunfire as bystanders to Monday’s shooting. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan called the shooting at the North Park Elementary School an apparent murder-suicide.
Amid Growing attacks on Indians in the United States, a section of non resident Indians have urged the government to take corrective measures. Speaking on the recent hate crimes against three indians, NRIs point out that such attacks should not be treated as isolated incidents and that those behind it must face the law.
