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MUMBAI: International students on an F-1 (study visa) seeking to change their status to a H-1B (non-immigrant work visa) stand to gain from the flexibilities in proposed H-1B modernisation rules, released on Friday night.International students on completion of their qualification and eligible for an optional practical training (OPT), this is for one year and students hailing from the STEM(science,...

MUMBAI: The Mumbai police received a threat call about a bomb planted at Mumbai International Airport, on Sunday.However, probe found that it was a hoax call.Police said that a hoax call was made saying there was a bomb in a blue bag at the airport.Soon, police officers and bomb squad team rushed to the airport and carried out investigation, however, nothing was found."Nothing was found during the...

WASHINGTON: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued to back down from the scorching crisis he has precipitated with India over the murder of a Khalistani extremist after being cornered over lack of evidence and international support for his allegations that New Delhi was behind the killing. At a press conference on Thursday, Trudeau was asked repeatedly if he had evidence, and its quality, to...

WASHINGTON: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, a prominent Indian-American mathematician and statistician, will receive the 2023 International Prize in Statistics, the equivalent to the Nobel Prize in the field, for his monumental work 75 years ago that revolutionised statistical thinking.Rao's work, more than 75 years ago, continues to exert a profound influence on science, the International Prize in...