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New York: For Indians planning to secure a US Green Card through investment, a major change is set to make the process significantly more expensive. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has approved steep fee increases for several applications under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. The new fees will come into effect from November 30, 2026. The increase is expected to raise the overall immigration cost for Indian entrepreneurs and families seeking permanent residency in the United States through investment. EB-5 application fees set to more than double Under the EB-5 programme, the fee for Form I-526, filed by…

Paris: The operating company that runs the Eiffel Tower said that its chief would step down at the end of this year in the wake of a controversy over the removal of women staff during a visit by a Hindu religious group, Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), earlier this month. The company named Société d’Exploitation de la tour Eiffel (SETE),  in a statement, said Patrick Branco Ruivo, who has been director general of the Paris landmark since 2018, would leave his job at the end of the year after an internal probe revealed that "operational flaws and shortcomings" in…

Moscow: In a big development, a Russian nuclear-capable strategic bomber crashed on Tuesday on a training mission in the country's far east, killing six members of its crew, the Defence Ministry said. The ministry further added in a statement that the Tu-95 bomber went down in an unpopulated area in the Amur region, adding that one crewmember survived the crash and was hospitalised with injuries. Russia’s Defence Ministry added that six of the seven crew members on board a Tu-95MS strategic bomber were killed when the aircraft crashed shortly after take-off during a training flight in the far eastern Amur…

Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced a major terminology change for Artificial Intelligence (AI), saying the US government will officially refer to AI as "Super Intelligence" (SI). He made the announcement during a high-profile White House luncheon with some of the world's biggest technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jensen Huang. The announcement comes days after Trump first floated the idea of replacing the term "Artificial Intelligence" during his address to the United Nations General Assembly. On Tuesday, he indicated that the change would be formally reflected in US government communications. Reports said Trump signed…