While President Trump\u2019s comparing the \u201cRed Button\u201d could be called nothing short of a blunder, the Indian American tech workers community had their fingers on a \u201cred\u201d button of their own. Latest reports, however, indicate relief, and we hope the community will not have to activate the panic button after all.<\/p>\n
There is lot of concern about changes in law related to H-1B visa extension as President Donald Trump seeks to make significant cuts and changes to the existing law. The \u201cMake in India\u201d strategy is not working in the solar sector, one of the big focus areas of the Modi government. The next time a guest walks into your home you may want to think twice before telling her to take a seat.<\/p>\n
There is lot of concern about changes in law related to H-1B visa extension as President Donald Trump seeks to make significant cuts and changes to the existing law. Will he do it? Yes, as that was his campaign promise \u2013 \u201cBe American. Hire American.\u201d Can he do it? \u2013 Not so fast, explains San Jose-based attorney Madan Ahluwalia.<\/b> It is not as simple, there are many legal hurdles that Trump has to face before anything drastic happens to the existing laws, he says.<\/p>\n
Indian businesses have mostly backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s \u201cMake in India\u201d vision that translates to incorporating policy frameworks that encourage domestic manufacturing. The objective is to achieve multiple goals that include employment, saving foreign exchange and enabling Indian companies to scale up and become global players. Curiously, the \u201cMake in India\u201d strategy is not working in the solar sector, one of the big focus areas of the Modi government, writes Siddharth Srivastava.<\/b><\/p>\n
The next time a guest walks into your home you may want to think twice before telling her to take a seat. You might, instead, say, \u201cHey, let\u2019s stand and talk for a bit, shall we.\u201d (Prolonged) sitting, warns Dr. Naras Bhat, a doctor of western medicine in the East Bay, is deleterious to your health.<\/p>\n
Bay Area Health care reporter Viji Sundaram<\/b> interviewed him in his clinic in Concord, Calif., on what is now popularly labeled as \u201cthe sitting disease.\u201d Bhat half-jestingly calls it the \u201ccurse of chairmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recent \u201chumanitarian gesture\u201d extended by Pakistan to allow the wife and mother of its prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav to meet him has exposed its farce and underpinned the toxicity of Indio-Pak relations existing since Independence, thereby escalating tensions between the two neighbors always at war with each other, writes Priyanka Bhardwaj.<\/b><\/p>\n
There are so many sites, cities, villages, countries that awaits your pleasure on your very first trip abroad. This is the easy part; the difficult ingredient hasn\u2019t been considered. You\u2019ve arrived and you\u2019re hungry. Are you ready for a taco, some dolmas or (Asian dish) But, your inner cravings and familiarity say \u201chamburger, Prime rib with baked potato\u201d \u201cor multi-top pizza,\u201d writes our travel editor Al Auger.<\/b><\/p>\n
Talk show host and actor Oprah Winfrey<\/b> became the first African American woman to be honored with the Cecil B DeMille Award at the Golden Globes, Jan. 8. She used the global platform to say \u201cTime\u2019s Up\u201d for sexual predators in the industry.<\/p>\n
Siliconeer<\/b> wishes all readers a very happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While President Trump\u2019s comparing the \u201cRed Button\u201d could be called nothing short of a blunder, the Indian American tech workers community had their fingers on a \u201cred\u201d button of their own. Latest reports, however, indicate relief, and we hope the community will not have to activate the panic button after all. There is lot of…<\/p>\n