F1 visa refusal: Former visa officer says Indians taught to memorize everything, rehearsed answers sound like lies

A former visa officer said Indian students consider a visa interview like a test, and they memorize answers that sound like lies. Reacting to Indian students getting rejected at their F1 visa interview despite not lying, former visa officer Yvette Bansal said Indians are taught to memorize everything, and they take this visa interview as…

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Who is Ramu Palani Velu, an Indian-origin businessman in Singapore, who left 400 workers unpaid and attempted to escape?

The companies also seized the passports of the migrant workers in Singapore. 400 Indian and Bangladeshi workers in Singapore were left in a lurch when the director, who did not pay them wages for months, went untraceable. The Singaporean businessman was identified as Indian-origin Ramu Palani Velu who was brought back to Singapore to face…

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Grand jury probe launched into Neville Roy Singham’s donations to Goldman Sachs’ philanthropy fund: Report

DOJ launches probe into Neville Roy Singham’s funding to Goldman Sachs, Fox News reported. The Department of Justice has launched a federal grand jury investigation into the alleged financial irregularities by Neville Roy Singham, the China-based American businessman. Fox News reported that the grand jury in Manhattan issued subpoena as part of a probe launched…

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At least 9 killed as Russia launches fresh attacks across Ukraine’s Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia

Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, all major industrial centres, have repeatedly come under Russian attacks during the war. Russian missile, drone and glide bomb attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine people and injured dozens on Monday, with strikes hitting several major cities as rescue operations continued and the casualty toll rose through the day.The deadliest…

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‘Tried my best’: Indian-origin techie says he has ‘made peace’ after failing to land job in US despite 15+ years of experience

Indian-origin techie returns to India after failing to land job in US After months of searching and several demanding interview processes, an Indian-origin tech professional in the United States says he has accepted that it is time to return home.In a Reddit post titled ‘End of the road’, coming back from US, the senior tech…

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French proverb of the day: ‘Little by little, the bird makes its nest’ — a lesson on why slow, steady effort builds the strongest foundations

French proverb – Little by little, the bird makes its nest. You want to write a book. You start with a sentence. Then another. Then another. The language app you downloaded? One lesson a day. The career you dream of? One skill at a time.None of it happens overnight. But it happens.This is the wisdom…

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Sheikh Tamim: Qatar’s wealthy emir Sheikh Tamim gave away $400m luxury 747 to Trump, then quietly rebuilt a $500m superyacht for next voyage | World News

Few state assets attract as much attention as a presidential aircraft, particularly when it begins life in the fleet of a foreign royal family. Yet while debate in Washington centred on Qatar’s decision to present one of its luxury Boeing 747-8 aircraft to the United States, another project involving the same royal household unfolded almost…

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Chinese proverb of the day: ‘Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of … ‘ — a lesson on why slow progress always beats no progress

Chinese proverb – Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still The new language app you downloaded sits untouched on your phone. The gym membership you bought in January has been used twice. The novel you started writing is still stuck on page one. You tell yourself you’ll get to it…

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Antarctica Dinosaur Fossil: Antarctica’s oldest known dinosaur fossil was hiding in a museum drawer for 40 years | World News

For years, it sat unnoticed among thousands of geological specimens, catalogued and stored without attracting much attention. The fossil had been collected during an expedition to Antarctica in the mid-1980s and then quietly placed within a museum collection, where it remained for nearly four decades.Only recently did a closer examination reveal that the modest-looking specimen…

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