Florida’s university system has decided to temporarily stop hiring foreign faculty members through the H-1B visa programme. The decision affects new hires across the state’s 12 public universities and will remain in place until January 5, 2027.While the policy focuses on recruitment procedures, its consequences may reach far beyond university human resources departments. What the…
A man based in Pakistan was running at least 31 accounts on X that shared AI-generated war videos, according to Nikita Bier, the platform’s head of product development. In a post on Wednesday, Bier said the accounts had been hacked and renamed on February 27 to variations of “Iran War Monitor.” The network pushed artificial…
India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) programme has emerged as a major driver of manufacturing expansion, investment inflows and export growth, with tangible gains recorded across priority sectors. According to official data reviewed up to end 2025, the PLI schemes have led to actual investments of nearly Rs 2 lakh crore across 14 sectors. These investments…
Amid ongoing travel disruptions linked to the escalating crisis in the Middle East, Kuwait has temporarily eased certain immigration rules to support travellers and residents affected by flight cancellations and airspace closures. All visitation visas that are about to expire or have already expired during the current disturbances will automatically be extended by one month,…
US stock markets rebounded on Wednesday after two days of sharp volatility, supported by easing oil prices and encouraging economic data that improved investor confidence.The S&P 500 rose 0.8 per cent in midday trading and was on course to recover most of the losses recorded since the war with Iran began. The Dow Jones Industrial…
India’s Hardik Pandya (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) Former England seamer Stuart Broad has issued a strong warning to England ahead of their semifinal clash against India, singling out Hardik Pandya as the player who could decisively swing the contest.Broad stressed that Pandya’s impact goes far beyond numbers on the scoreboard. The Indian all-rounder has the…
MPPSC SET answer key 2026 MPPSC SET answer key 2026: The Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC) is expected to release the provisional answer key for the Madhya Pradesh State Eligibility Test 2026 (MP SET) on its official website, mppsc.mp.gov.in. The test was held on the 1 st of March, 2026 at different examination centres…
Pete Hegseth at press briefing US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday claimed that American and Israeli forces were moving swiftly to dominate Iranian airspace, while acknowledging that some incoming drones and missiles could still evade interception.Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Hegseth said, “Starting last night, and to be completed in a few days……
People all over the world are right in praising India’s digital payments story. India is today a leader in digital payments because the entire ecosystem was built on three things: trust, modernisation, and compliance. The trust was achieved through public digital networks like UPI; modernisation was brought about through the use of real-time, API-driven architectures;…
Under the cold waters of the Baltic Sea off the Åland Islands, researchers made a surprising archaeological find that provides a rare glimpse into 19th-century brewing. During a shipwreck excavation, divers recovered several bottles of beer from a schooner that sank in the 1840s. There were more than 150 bottles of champagne and five bottles…