Green Card crackdown on major IT giants including Microsoft shakes Silicon Valley. Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa strongly reacted to the Donald Trump administration’s suspension PERM program for eight IT giants, including Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capegemini and said that these companies are not the visa abusers. The visa abusers are…

FBI Director Kash Patel/Image: AP The FBI has demoted two senior counterterrorism officials in Washington and reassigned them to bureau headquarters amid dissatisfaction over their handling of an investigation into allegedly threatening phone calls targeting Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House aide Stephen Miller, Bloomberg Law reported, citing three people.Michael Burgwald, special agent…

55-meters-deep Swedish limestone quarry When mining stopped at an isolated limestone quarry in central Sweden in 1990, the local area was left with a 55-metre-deep industrial pit cut into the pine forests outside Rättvik. Just a year later, a former opera singer discovered that the abandoned quarry had remarkable natural acoustics. Today, the former mining…

File photo: Houthi rebels tap Chinese supply for missile ambitions Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are seeking to manufacture advanced ballistic missiles using components sourced from China, potentially giving the group the ability to strike targets across Saudi Arabia and Israel, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal.A separate investigation by Bloomberg has…

PC Harman Singh charged with attempted rape and sexual assault in UK. An Indian-origin Metropolitan Police officer is due to appear before a London court after being charged with attempted rape, sexual assault and intentional strangulation over alleged offences against a woman earlier this year.Police Constable Harman Singh, attached to the force’s North Area command…

The identification tags were found among old military records at Beverly Veterans’ Services (Credit: CBS) A 104-year-old woman in Massachusetts has received her brother’s military identification tags 83 years after he died in a plane crash during World War II. Dorothy Stewart, who was 21 when her brother Bernard Parnell died in 1943, was reunited…