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US tells India it is mulling caps on H-1B visas

The plan to restrict the popular H-1B visa programme, under which skilled foreign workers are brought to the United States each year, comes days ahead of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to New Delhi.

The warning comes as trade tensions between the US and India have resulted in tit-for-tat tariff actions in recent week

By Reuters

India

A significant absentee was the Congress, which made up its mind in the morning to stay away. Party president Rahul Gandhi wrote to the government expressing regret.

7 Opposition parties keep off one-poll meet

By TT Bureau

India

Himalayan glaciers melt at double the speed

By G.S. Mudur

Opinion

Are we really a parliamentary democracy?

By Arghya Sengupta

India

Mamata targets poll thorns

By TT Bureau

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Residents could be seen crowded around water tankers in temperatures of over 40°C, holding buckets as media reported scuffles

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Chennai hotels ration water

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Facebook is one member of the Libra consortium. The 28 founding partners include Uber, Lyft, PayPal, Spotify, eBay, Visa and Mastercard, among others. Although a team of Facebook created Libra, a Swiss non-profit based in Geneva will see the final design being put into place.

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Libra: What is Facebook's digital currency all about

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Black pepper

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Black pepper origin traced to Western Ghats

By G.S. Mudur
Bhaunri: A Novel; Anukrti Upadhyay; Fourth Estate; 142 pages; Rs 299

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A rustic village girl, doses of history and offerings from the wild

By Shrestha Saha
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Dilip Shanghvi earned his wealth not by building a conglomerate, but by dint of focusing just on one sector—pharmaceuticals
Rocketman: Elton John
A U of T study finds evidence to support numerous romantic comedy plots – including the one in Bridget Jones’s Diary – in which characters constantly find themselves dating the wrong 'type' of person
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Prakasam Barrage, the last barrage across the Krishna River. Inter-basin transfer involves moving of water from a watershed with supposedly a surplus (donor basin) to a watershed suffering from a shortage (recipient basin).
The Bay of Bengal and, beyond it, the wider eastern Indian Ocean region merging with the Pacific is a geography packed with geopolitical rivalries as new and rising powers rub against older histories and conflicts.
When asked if he should be spared criticism on account of his youth, Kyle Kashuv, a student survivor of the Parkland school shooting on Valentine's Day, 2018, in which 17 people died, responded: “When you’re pushing policy, the protections as a kid are gone. I’m rightfully not granted that.

Harvard’s false path to wisdom

By David Brooks/ New York Times News Service

In India, public morality is linked to caste-based socialization that teaches us early in life to understand social events through normative preferences that are not standardized. The same act can pass off as moral when it involves one’s own caste group, and as immoral when it involves other castes

Our caste-based public morality

By Ajay Gudavarthy

Shivraj Singh Chouhan was flooded with greetings on being appointed the chief of the BJPs new membership drive
People gather to rescue affected people from a flooded area in Pathanamthitta, Kerala, in August 2018, when the state suffered catastrophic floods. Local administrations should carry out development activities by considering the vulnerability quotient attached to their region
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A patient arrives for treatment in NRS Medical College and Hospital even as junior doctors continue their protest. No justification is enough for the continued suffering of the ailing brought on by interrupted medical services
Detail from a painting that depicts a scene from the battle of Kurukshetra of the Mahabharata epic, painted circa 1820
If you made a pile of all the packaging used by a passenger travelling from Delhi to Calcutta across a 17-hour journey you would get a small mountain of plastic ‘prasad’ per person. Now, imagine a few hundred thalis of this lined up on the platform next to the Rajdhani Express
Students take part in a green drive in Meghalaya’s South West Khasi Hills on June 5, 2019. Meghalaya has planted 1.5 million saplings on a single day.
Asif Ali Zardari (centre) leaves the High Court building, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 10, 2019.
Mahatma Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930. In a letter to Viceroy Lord Irwin in March 1930, Gandhi described the salt tax as
Rajnath Singh along with three Services’ Chiefs pays homage to martyrs at National War Memorial ahead of taking charge as Union defence minister, in New Delhi on Saturday, June 1, 2019.
Utilizing the surplus of dentists to make up for the shortage of MBBS doctors can be beneficial in the short-term, but it needs to be seen that dentistry does not become a back-door entry into MBBS in the future

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