Last month, an announcement by US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti about plans to implement a pilot programme, that would allow domestic visa renewal for qualified H&L-category employment visa applicants, was welcomed by thousands of Indian professionals working in the US. Currently, Indians on H-1B and L visas in the US face a cumbersome process of restamping visas by returning to India resulting...
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HOOGHLY/MIDNAPORE: The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is scheduled to release another 65,000 cusec of water from Maithan and Panchet dams in the next 24 hours, a move that threatens to aggravate the flood situation in Hooghly, Howrah and Burdwan.Thursday, however, had brought some relief to some flood-stricken south Bengal areas as water levels there began to recede in certain localities as less water...