Ocean Wave Report

A constructive dialogue between India and Pakistan is for the betterment of the people of the two countries, the United States has said and reiterated that its relationships with either of them is not zero-sum. “We have a global strategic partnership with India. I have also spoken about the deep partnership we have with Pakistan. These relationships in our mind are not zero-sum. We do not view them in relation to one another,” US State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily news conference on Monday. Each of them is indispensable to the United States and to the promotion and the pursuit of the shared goals that we have with India and Pakistan, he said in response to a question. “The fact that we have partnerships with both countries leaves us not wanting to see a war of words between India and Pakistan. We would like to see constructive dialogue between India and Pakistan. We think that is for the betterment of the Pakistani and Indian people. There is much work ...

  Over the past few years there has been a big rise in the number of Indian students opting for the US as a campus destination for higher education. The US mission in India has recently announced that a record 82,000 student visas have been issued in 2022 and Indians have received more US student visas than any other country. Even as the number of Indian students going to campuses in the US goes up, the number on optional practical training status, too, has seen a sharp rise over the past few years. For Indian students,  OPT  is an option to work in the US after their studies. According to the Open Doors survey in November 2020, which tracks international student numbers, there were 81,173 Indian students enrolled for the OPT programme in the US. But now as there are thousands of job losses across the US; Indian students who have started working in the US in their OPT period, or got H-1B work permits from employers after they finished their OPT, too are facing problems. O...