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US Defence officials said the Obama administration is considering sending more National Guard troops to keep order along the US-Mexican border as drug-fuelled violence increases in northern Mexico. Governors of Arizona and Texas have asked for more than ...

Software industry body Nasscom on Friday, hit out at the US H-1B visa legislation, introduced in the Senate on Thursday that its provisions are targeting Indian firms and restricting their ability to compete in the US market. Nasscom said though the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday and stated she saw no sign the country was sliding back into sectarian warfare despite recent attacks. According to Reuters, Clinton landed in a military transport ...

WASHINGTON'Canada. Conduit. Terror. Three words no Canadian likes to hear in the same sentence. Three words that just keep spilling out of Americans, as they did this week from Janet Napolitano, the Obama administration's homeland security secretary. ...

WASHINGTON- A legislation has been introduced in the US Senate on reforming the H-1B and L1 visa programmes, popular among Indians, under which the American firms looking for skilled foreign professionals are required to make a good faith attempt to ...

NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON- Indias software industry has opposed a US bill that seeks to make it mandatory for American companies to fill vacancies with locals before turning to skilled foreign workers. The stated objective of the bill is to prevent fraud ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the US-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the US military's role in the war on drugs, according to ...

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O.C. Weekly's Gustavo Arellano refutes stereotypes in his nationally syndicated column, ' iAsk A Mexican!' But the one about the tireless newsman persists. In between his columns, investigative reports and food reviews, Arellano contributes to the L.A. ...

The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military's role in the drug war, according to Obama ...

Two U.S. senators are reintroducing legislation aimed at revamping the H-1B visa program for guest workers in the U.S., at a time of rising unemployment and growing evidence that the program has been marred by fraud. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and ...

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WASHINGTON: Two US senators have introduced a bill to make it tougher for American firms to employ foreign professionals under its H-1B and L1 visa programmes utilised the most by Indians and the Chinese. The bill introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley ...

Source: Indian Express Finance The $40-billion Indian IT export industry, which depends on the US market for more than half its revenues, received a jolt in a recession-hit market after legislation curbing H-1B and L-1 visas was introduced in the US ...

An outbreak of swine flu in Mexico is causing health officials concern. Public places in Mexico have been closed to prevent spread of the contagious illness. The virus may have mutated to a strain for which the public has little immunity. Several dozen ...

Provisions of the Bill are against the principles of free trade, says Nasscom chief NEW DEHI: The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) on Friday hit out at the U.S. H1B visa legislation, introduced in the Senate on Thursday, ...

The H1B, L-1 visa legislation, which has been introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin in the US Senate, if passed, will prevent Indian IT companies from hiring H-1B and L-1 workers if more than 50 per cent of their employees hold these ...

As security tightens along the porous US border with Mexico, authorities are seeing an alarming increase of corruption and bribery cases among US Border Patrol agents. Fourteen Border agents have been arrested on corruption charges so far this year, ...

Washington: Setting tough conditions for the U.S. firms hiring overseas professionals, a bill has been introduced in the Senate on reforming the H-1B and L1 visa programmes, under which local qualified workers are needed to be given a chance first. The ...

Hyderabad: The US Senate has introduced a draft legislation that seeks to add new curbs on H-1B and L-1 visas and prevent foreigners from replacing qualified US employees. If this passes into law, India?s large outsourcing industry is likely to be ...