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EB-1 GREEN CARD CRISIS | America’s Fast Lane for Indian Talent is Running Out of Road
EB-1 GREEN CARD CRISIS | America’s Fast Lane for Indian Talent is Running Out of Road
10 min read
The US may temporarily stop issuing EB-1 green cards to Indians after the country exhausts its annual allocation. Fresh numbers could reopen the category on October 1, but the relief will not repair a ...
Bata Fires Ad Agencies for AI: Can Algorithms Really Sell Shoes Better and Cheaper?
6 min read
Bata India says AI agents now write briefs, generate and review creatives, publish content and learn from performance. The shoemaker has ended its creative-agency retainers, claiming an 80 per cent co ...
50 Toppers, 0.75% Margin: Aakash Still Can’t Exorcise the Ghost of Byju’s
8 min read
Byju’s left Aakash with a vandalised balance sheet. Manipal now controls roughly 73 per cent, yet the exorcism is failing: revenue has fallen 16 per cent and EBITDA 95 per cent in two years, while ove ...
₹5,557 Crore Out, ₹0 In: Meesho’s Post-IPO Exit Machine is Already Bigger Than its IPO
5 min read
Fidelity sold at ₹165. Peak XV and Elevation Capital followed at ₹186. Y Combinator exited at ₹200. SoftBank’s reported transaction came at ₹206. In 12 weeks, large shareholders have sold more stock t ...
India’s Onion Problem: Why Tamil Nadu’s ₹35 Fix May Still Leave Families Crying
7 min read
Tamil Nadu will sell subsidised onions through 8,739 ration shops. But its first 1,000-tonne consignment can reach only 10 lakh of the 80 lakh eligible cardholders once. From the elections of 1980 and ...
Diamonds Aren’t Forever: Why Belgium Has Returned to India After 20 Years
7 min read
Bart De Wever’s visit is being presented as a celebration of India-Belgium ties. Beneath the ceremony lies an urgent reinvention. Antwerp and Surat built one of globalisation’s most successful partner ...
Before He Became Mahanayak: How Uttam Kumar Survived Failure to Become Bengal’s Eternal Hero
6 min read
On his birth centenary, Bengal remembers the smile, the romance and the superstardom. Less remembered is the clerk who changed his name, watched film after film collapse and became known as the “Flop ...
93 Lakh Applications, 1.12 Lakh Khaki Uniforms: Why Millions of Young Indians Compete for Police Constable Jobs
8 min read
Nearly one lakh candidates are chasing police constable posts in Himachal Pradesh. Across the hill state and five others, six recent recruitment drives have attracted more than 93 lakh applications fo ...
Goodbye, Khadim Batti: The Founder Who Gave Luck a Chance
8 min read
He withdrew his provident fund, travelled by bus, moved into a smaller home and gave his dream a deadline. Then Khadim Batti built Whatfix into a global enterprise software company. His death has take ...