Leaving the United States is the only solution left, felt Sheela Murthy of the Baltimore, Maryland-based Murthy Law Firm, for students of Tri-Valley University, who have been running from one university to another and from one attorney to another since federal authorities raided and shut down the college on January 19.
A US congressional paper says the recent arrest of eleven men in Virginia, allegedly connected with the Lashkar, raises the prospects of a new terrorist threat in the US.
To secure a work visa in the US, students have to find an employer who can sponsor it.
Locke says the US is seeking a level-playing field.
'The logical step is to challenge the very legitimacy of the Chinese claim over Tibet,' recommends Inspector General Gurdip Singh Uban (retd).
The US sought to justify the use of ankle monitors on the students, duped by now closed Tri-Valley University, saying it was widespread across America as a standard procedure for a variety of investigations and does not necessarily imply guilt or suspicion of criminal activity.
At least one Indian student has been arrested in a countrywide operation in which hundreds of Indians may be victims or participants in an elaborate fraud scheme involving a California university.
US officials sought a full briefing on militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani daily reported.
The notification stated that the LTTE's continued violent and disruptive activities are prejudicial to the integrity and sovereignty of India.
The White House on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of withdrawing the order and exuded confidence of winning the case.
The current H-1B minimum wage of USD 60,000 was established in 1989 and since then has remained unchanged.
Hillary Clinton said. "It was not raised with me or raised directly with the state department," but she reiterated, "Certainly, we will be looking into it and not only responding to the Indian foreign minister, but also reviewing the policies."
Mexico fights back, says it will 'not pay for any wall'
Cutting across party lines, United States lawmakers expressed their outrage at what they called "illegal" publication of classified American documents by WikiLeaks, and asked the Obama administration to use all legal means to shut down this whistleblower website.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama on Monday addressed a joint press conference after one-on-one talks with each other, at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Here's the transcript of Dr Singh's statement.
United States President Barack Obama has said there is a 'credible terrorist threat' against America after two suspicious packages, containing explosives material, were found in cargo jets originating in Yemen with two Jewish centers in Chicago-area being their destinations. There has been a 'credible terrorist threat against our country' Obama told reporters at a hurriedly convened White House press conference after he was briefed by his top intelligence officials.
'This bill is for the children of Partition who are still subject to inhuman barbarism because they profess a faith rooted in India.' 'If India fails them, we shall be no better than a Pakistan which brutalises its minorities and has turned into a factory of intolerant bigots,' says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.
Investigations into the car that went up in flames barely minutes after two bikers opened fire at a tourist bus near Jama Masjid in New Delhi have revealed that explosives were actually used to trigger fire.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's address to the nation on the eve of 72nd Republic Day.
The Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations Act was passed yesterday by a voice vote in the House of Representatives.
MH-60 Romeo Seahawks would add lethal capabilities of the Indian Navy, which experts say is the need of the hour given the aggressive behaviour of China in the Indian Ocean region.
Concerned over terror groups recruiting expatriates in the US to launch attacks against the country, a group of lawmakers on Friday introduced a legislation in the Congress that would allow the government to revoke the citizenship of people who attack the US or its allies.
A middle-aged individual who is suspected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other investigating agencies for being involved in the failed Times Square car bombing is a naturalised US citizen of Pakistani origin, media reports said on Tuesday.
US President Barack Obama has said that his administration would do whatever necessary to find those responsible for the failed terrorist attempt to blow up a car bomb at the Times Square in New York on Saturday.
"Al Qaeda is especially notable for its longstanding interest in weapons-usable nuclear material and the requisite expertise that would allow it to develop a yield-producing improvised nuclear device," said John Brennan, the Deputy National Security Advisor for Counter-terrorism and Homeland Security, on Monday.
The spectacular terrorist attacks in Mumbai that caught everyone by surprise by the level of coordination and implementation highlights that the Indian security forces lack the depth of intelligence needed to counter such sophistication, a specialist in counter-terrorism and homeland security with Jane's Strategic Advisory Services in London, has said
The US believes Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation, responsible for the horrific Mumbai terror attacks on 26/11 and several other terrorist acts in India, could soon replace Al Qaeda as the number one worldwide terrorist threat or at the very least compete with Osama bin Laden's global Terror Inc.
Learning lessons from the Al Qaeda's botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up an American plane, the United States is installing advanced imaging technology at airports, which can detect liquids, powders, gels and other substances that someone may try to smuggle onto to an aircraft to use as an explosive."After the events of December 25, I think it reminded everyone that aviation remains a target of the Al Qaeda," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
Thirteen months ago, Comaneci was the first person Halep hugged when she clambered up into the stands on Court Philippe Chatrier after she won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open.
United States President Barack Obama did not pay full attention to the war on terror in his first year in office as he was 'distracted' by domestic issues like health care and climate change, officials associated with the 9/11 commission have said, describing the botched Christmas Day bombing as 'a wake-up call.'
The US, and may be many more countries, is facing a grave cyber risk from an army of Chinese hackers.
There was "no indication" to suggest that the Nigerian terror suspect was acting as part of a larger plot when he unsuccessfully attempted to blow up a US plane midair on the Christmas Day, US Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, told the CNN on Sunday.
A man ignited a small explosive device on board an international flight headed to the United States on Friday, in a suspected terrorist attack, informed the White House.A fellow passenger, traveling on the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, spotted the man and alerted the cabin crew. He put out the explosive with a blanket and isolated the terror suspect with the help of the cabin crew.The man carrying the explosive was identified as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23.
A federal jury on Monday convicted Susan Xiao-Ping Su, the founder of California-based Tri Valley University.
The US favours a significant role for India in ensuring peace in Afghanistan but said it has to decide whether it wants a military presence in the war-ravaged country, a top American military commander said on Friday.
'The government must covertly eliminate the leaders of terrorist organisations abroad so as to eliminate the problem at its roots,' recommends Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
"The frontier of space, which includes utilisation of satellites, will continue to be a growing area of warfare. India has stated in the past that it is against militarization of space. But space assets have to be utilised in warfare in the years to come and we are also preparing for it to take adequate counter measures," Raju said.
Obama's detractors describe the new approach to counter-terrorism as the Jesuit approach. Will it succeed? Obama and Brennan want to give the new policy a try, writes security expert B Raman
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