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Friday, November 7, 2025
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Topic: United States

US clarifies who is exempt from $100,000 H1-B visa fee. There’s good news for Indian students & techies

For new H-1B visa petitions filed 21 September onwards, as well as applicants without a valid visa and outside the US currently, the $100,000 fee is must.

Good progress achieved in trade negotiations, says Modi after his second call with Trump in a month

This is 2nd call between 2 leaders within month; they had not spoken between June & September. Earlier this week, Senate confirmed Sergio Gor as new Ambassador to India.

Space race meets reality TV: Indians can now compete for a seat on a suborbital flight

In an exclusive interview, the founders of SERA say interested astronaut candidates from India can register now.

More Andhra-style prawn fry for Indian plates? How Naidu’s trying to blunt US tariff hit on aqua exports

Naidu attempts to shield aqua farmers after Trump’s tariff hits the shrimp farming sector in Andhra Pradesh, leading to the cancellation of 50% of the state's exports.

‘Top-most predator in food chain eats everyone else’—RSS chief Bhagwat amid turbulence in India-US ties

Mohan Bhagwat, speaking at a book launch at the Prime Minister's Museum and Library in Delhi, also said that India has to fix the unfavourable currents it faces on the global stage as quickly as possible.

Trump wants a deal with Taliban to get Bagram back. Here’s why this airbase in Afghanistan matters

The Taliban dismissed the prospect of any US military presence in Afghanistan. In a snub to Trump, China says it respects Afghanistan’s independence & territorial integrity.

Setback for NIA in ‘separatist’ Aasiya Andrabi case: Why Delhi court rejected plea to submit ‘new’ evidence

The NIA approached the court on 2 August, days before the judgment in the seven-year-old case, seeking to submit additional evidence against Aasiya Andrabi & her 2 aides.

34-year-old Haryana man Shammy Verma arrested in California on charges of rape, sodomy

Santa Rosa police say Verma had a pattern of developing relationships with women and then sexually assaulting them, suspect there may be more victims.

India Post suspends services to US amid uncertainty over new duty rules

Letters/documents, gift items worth up to $100 are exempted from suspension, taking effect from 25 August. Trump administration has withdrawn its duty-free exemption on low-value imports.

US issues sanctions on 13 networks, 8 vessels for dealing in Iran oil

The measures cover Greek national Antonios Margaritis and his network of companies and vessels that Treasury said was involved in transporting Iranian oil exports in violation of sanctions.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.