R. Suryamurthy is a Contributing Editor at South Asian Herald. He has worked for The Telegraph, The Tribune, and Press Trust of India.
For millions of Indians living abroad, retirement planning increasingly involves a difficult question: how can they build lives overseas without leaving ageing parents in India to navigate healthcare, emergencies and…
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India on Sunday said the United Nations human rights office of interfering in its internal affairs after it criticized mass detentions during protests in New Delhi, as demonstrators returned to…
In waves they came, threading their way through barricades, dodging police cordons and playing a game of cat and mouse with officers who advanced to block them. Some ran, others…
The US freeze on green-card sponsorship at eight technology companies may have limited immediate consequences for project delivery, but it is accelerating a debate over talent mobility, local hiring and…
The U.S. government’s planned overhaul of fees for the EB-5 immigrant investor program is set to raise the cost of navigating an already complex investment-based route to permanent residence, with…
The U.S. State Department’s October 2026 Visa Bulletin, opening the 2027 fiscal year with a fresh allocation of immigrant visa numbers, offers some filing opportunities for South Asian immigrants but…
India’s accelerating shift to renewable power is heading towards a new constraint: whether the electricity grid can absorb the capacity being added without increasing curtailment, transmission congestion and system instability,…
A proposed $103,265 U.S. fee on new H-1B visas could sharply reduce the flow of Indian technology professionals to the United States, while encouraging companies to keep more high-skilled work…
Indian professionals seeking permanent residence in the United States could face a potential 179-year wait under the employment-based second preference category, exposing the extraordinary scale of a green-card backlog that…
Foreign journalists, media professionals and certain North American professionals applying for U.S. visas will face a new layer of digital scrutiny from October 1, as the State Department expands mandatory…
South Asian immigrants preparing for the next stage of their U.S. permanent-residency journey face a new administrative checkpoint after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released updated editions of Form…
Indian food and beverage exporters are seeing a pickup in overseas orders ahead of Diwali, with international buyers reporting average demand growth of about 6 percent and some markets recording…
India faces a potential double economic shock after the U.S. Congress cleared legislation giving President Donald Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on major buyers of…
