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improving the quality of H-1B workers and to better reflect wages paid to similarly employed workers in the US. The new rule will limit an employer's ability to replace workers with cheap foreign labour and help ensure wages are not suppressed by the presence of low-cost foreign workers, the White House had said.
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There were 27 Indian-origin candidates in the fray in the elections held on Saturday. All eight winners belong to the ruling New Democratic Party which secured an absolute majority with 55 seats in the 87-member House. Three of the Indo-Canadian winners are women. Noted human rights lawyer Aman Singh created history by becoming the first turbaned Sikh MLA in British Columbia even though the province was the Newsdesk first to elect aHiIndia Punjabi (Moe Sihota) as an MLA in 1986 and a New(Ujjal York, Oct 29: There are Indian-origin Sikh Dosanjh) astwo Premier in 2001. Singh caused a major candidates running for the US Vice President Jas Johal of the opposition upset by beating former journalist in the November 3 election -- Democrat Liberal Richmond-Queensborough. Most of IndoKamalaParty Harrisin and Sunil Freeman, who is Canadian victories came in the Indian-dominated city of Surrey on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and
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Indian-origin filmmaker Sweta Rai’s lockdown documentary about frontline workers against the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the stellar efforts medical and emergency professionals have been making in 2020.
Indian-origin filmmaker Sweta Rai’s lockdown documentary about frontline workers against the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the stellar efforts medical and emergency professionals have been making in 2020. Rai’s 64-minute documentary ‘A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland’ features five Indian doctors working in the US, away from their families back in India, and faithfully captures the pressures they were facing as well as their innovative actions in response. The film, shot remotely with footage recorded from several devices at different locations during the lockdown, is a perfect example of the shattering effect the pandemic has had on the lives of families across the globe. “When someone lives away from the family, their challenges are different; their emotions are different. But what I learned is that while their families back in India miss them every day, they feel proud of them regardless of what country they are in,” said Rai.
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HiIndia Newsdesk Vancouver, Oct 26 Eight Indo-Canadians were elected to the 87-member Assembly of Canada’s British Columbia province. There were 27 Indian-origin candidates in the fray in the elections held on Saturday. All eight winners belong to the ruling New Democratic Party which secured an absolute majority with 55 seats in the 87-member House. Three of the Indo-Canadian winners are women. Noted human rights lawyer Aman Singh created history by becoming the first turbaned Sikh MLA in British Columbia even though the province was the first to elect a Punjabi (Moe Sihota) as an MLA in 1986 and a Sikh (Ujjal Dosanjh) as Premier in 2001. Singh caused a major upset by beating former journalist Jas Johal of the opposition Liberal Party in Richmond-Queensborough. Most of Indo-Canadian victories came in the Indian-dominated city of Surrey on the outskirts of Vancouver. Prominent winners include Labour Minister Harry Bains, Deputy Speaker Raj Chouhan, former minister Jinny Sims and parliamentary secretaries Jagrup Brar and Ravi Kahlon. Bains retained his seat of Surrey-Newton by beating fellow Punjabi Paul Boparai of the Liberal Party.
(PSL). of Vancouver. onLiberation the outskirts While Harris has been in the limelight, often
reviled by President Donald Trump as a socialist, Freeman is the candidate with a solid radical socialist agenda. Freeman's mother Flora Navita is from India and his parents met while she was a teacher at a refugee camp in Varanasi in the aftermath of the Partition. His father, Charles Freeman, was visiting India as a member of an American peace group. He said in an interview with IANS that his mother always wore a saree and although living in the US for decades retained her Indian citizenship. She grew up in New Delhi and in Lucknow where she graduated from the Isabel Thoburn College. Sunil Freeman, who grew up in the Washington area, said that his visit to India as a 10-year-old was "the most powerful experience of my life".
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STEPHEN MILLER THREATENS ‘EXPANDED’ TRAVEL BAN IF TRUMP WINS Trump claimed the bill would create a “merit-based immigration system that protects U.S. workers and taxpayers.” The measure would have replaced the country’s current employer- and family-centered system with a points-based program, awarding immigrants points for criteria such as age and “extraordinary achievements,” though the only two achievements that would have earned points were Nobel Prizes and Olympic medals.
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tephen Miller, the brains behind President Donald Trump’s most hardline anti-immigration policies, has given a rare interview to NBC News ahead of Election Day. His message? Vote Trump and he’ll make life even harder for immigrants in the next four years. Miller works simultaneously as an adviser in the White House and to Trump’s re-election campaign, and told NBC that he was speaking strictly in his capacity as a campaign adviser, rather than as a government official. He said one priority would be “building on and expanding the framework that we’ve created with the travel ban, in terms of raising the standard for screening and vetting for admission to the United States.” Miller said he wants to create a new system to screen the “ideological sympathies or leanings” of visa applicants to help gauge whether they could be recruited by radicals. Miller said another priority would be “really cracking down aggressively on sanctuary cities,” which limit their cooperation the federal government’s immigration laws.
The Trump adviser says the president would fight to limit asylum, target “sanctuary cities,” expand the “travel ban” and cut work visas.
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Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “In a span of two days, we have lost both Maheshbhai and Nareshbhai Kanodia. Their contributions to the world of culture, especially polularising Gujarati songs, music and theatre will never be forgotten. They also worked hard to serve society and empower the downtrodden.
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