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Shortage of green cards is latest US immigrant barrier

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Indians holding or applying for green cards face a new anti-immigrant obstacle from the United States government. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has scaled back the printing of the physical green cards which identify the holder as a legal permanent US resident. By law, US permanent residents are legally required to carry the credit card-sized identity cards “at all times” and must show them when applying for jobs and when travelling. Indians received 10% of all green cards issued in 2019 and are the second-largest…

Amazon bans TikTok on employees’ phones, cites ‘security risks’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> has requested employees remove the TikTok video sharing app from their mobile devices by July 10 over “security risks,” according to a memo to employees seen by Reuters. “Due to security risk, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email. If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by 10-Jul to retain mobile access to Amazon email. At this time, using TikTok from your Amazon laptop browser is allowed,” according to the email. Amazon.com representatives…

Minor League a US Open template

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BOCA RATON/FL – USA: The upcoming USA Cricket Minor league is a template of the very popular US Open T20 tournament that is held every year in the United States. USA Cricket has sent out all the particulars of the inaugural Minor League cricket series, which they plan to take into the Major League in the future. A glance at the idea and ideals of the tournament takes you right back to the visionary Mahammad Qureshi who was way ahead in planning when he brought this to the table in…

US Supreme Court denies Trump ‘immunity’, unblocks release of financial records

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The US Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of President Donald Trump’s personal tax and financial records to New York investigators but turned down subpoenas for the same papers and information from congressional committees in a separate case. But the American public will not be able to see immediately the president’s tax records and financial information because they will be released to a grand jury, whose proceedings were secret. Using other legal recourse still available, the president’s lawyers can prevent the release of these records till…

US evaluating an entire range of Chinese products with access to data on Americans

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The United States has said it was evaluating an entire range of Chinese apps and products that may have data on Americans and will be undertaking actions to preserve and protect them from being accessed by the Chinese government, not only TikTok or any one specific company. “It’s something we’re looking at, yes,” President Donald Trump told a TV interviewer Tuesday, about TikTok. “It’s a big business. Look, what happened with China with this virus, what they’ve done to this country and to the entire world is…

ICE guideline forces students enrolled in colleges holding online classes out of US

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Panic has gripped Indian and international students in US colleges over the new guideline announced Monday by the Trump administration. The guideline forces foreign non-immigrant students to leave the country if they are enrolled in institutions holding only online classes for the fall semester. The state department will not issue visas to students on F-1 and M-1 — for academic and vocations students — enrolled in online-only institutions and the US border and customs will not let them enter the country, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department said…

Trump insists that school open, but teachers aren’t so sure

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ President Donald Trump has made his position clear: “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!” he tweeted Monday. As Covid-19 surges in parts of the US, many teachers aren’t convinced. The pandemic’s ever-shifting nature has robbed school districts of the ability to plan with certainty — not only for instruction, but to provide protective equipment and intensive cleaning. Even if a sustained decline in infections allows them to open their doors, many are preparing a mix of in-person and remote education that is certain to fall short of…

Maq Stars and Spartans share the spoils

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DELRAY BEACH/FL – USA: Cricket action continued on Sunday at the Maq Cricket Stadium in Boca Raton, Florida with Maq Stars and Florida Spartans sharing the matches 1-1. They took part in the Maq T10 tournament that is ongoing as Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) continues their work of bringing cricket back to the people of America. In the first game, Maq Stars batted first and scored 75 for five off their 10 overs with the hard-hitting batsman Zishawn Qureshi top-scoring with 13. Also getting 13 was Rehan Mohammed. In response,…

‘Must be held accountable’: Trump blames China for Covid-19 in July 4 speech

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ As the United States celebrated its 244th birthday in an unusually somber manner reflecting the mood of a country in the throes of deadly coronavirus disease outbreak, President Donald Trump once again blamed China for it and held out hopes of a vaccine by the end of the year. The president, who held the July 4 celebrations against the advice of public health officials and experts warning that the virus is also spreading through these large gatherings, did not mention the fatalities in his speech. Currently the…

Coronavirus cases in US cross 50K-mark again, Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend infected

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of the US president’s eldest son and a top fundraiser for his re-election campaign, was among the new Covid-19 infections reported on Friday, which logged yet another single-day high of more than 50,000 cases, and seven states saw their own record daily spikes. Confirmed cases are climbing in 40 states, and the US set another record Friday with 52,300 newly reported infections, according to Johns Hopkins University, reported news agency Associated Press. Miami county of Florida declared an indefinite night-time curfew and shut…