Munugala Anusha

A US judge has blocked President Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee, deeming it an unauthorized tax. The ruling, a significant setback for the administration's immigration restrictions, found the fee exceeded congressional authority. This decision offers relief to employers and foreign professionals, particularly in India's tech sector, who faced prohibitive costs.

Daughter of former Bombay High Court judge Gautam Patel received a death threat at her London home, weeks after a physical assault. The threats are linked to a 2024 judgment on the Dawoodi Bohra spiritual leader succession, with anonymous letters accusing the judge of fraud.

Civic sense is not an inherent trait that people are either born with or without. It is a training programme that society runs and in India, people are constantly getting mixed signals.

Ben Stokes’s England captaincy is under threat after he and Gus Atkinson allegedly broke a team curfew and became involved in a nightclub altercation following the win over New Zealand. The ECB is investigating, though sources say the players “were not the aggressors.” A security guard was injured, Stokes may miss the next Test, and Harry Brook is expected to captain.

Storage of fat is different in Indians. This makes our organs vulnerable to inflammation

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warns humanity is on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence, potentially within four years, urging immediate preparation. He views current AI agents as a societal stress test and highlights the risks of recursive self-improvement. Hassabis also criticized tech companies for laying off engineers, advocating for increased productivity instead.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will have 48 nations, 104 matches and a thousand storylines, but nothing like the arrival of a new generation of players announcing themselves on the world's biggest stage. These are the players who watched the 2022 Qatar finals as schoolboys and are now walking into dressing rooms alongside Messi, Ronaldo and Mbappé. The expanded format means more room for young talent to showcase their game. Here are 10 under-21 players stepping onto the World Cup stage for the very first time.

Apple unveiled iOS 27 at WWDC 2026 on Monday, framing the release as a year of fixes rather than reinvention. A new slider tames Liquid Glass, a rewritten CPU scheduler delivers measurable speed gains down to the iPhone 11, and the long-delayed Siri AI finally ships—built on Apple's next-gen Foundation Models, trained in partnership with Google's Gemini, with English rolling out first.