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Canada study permit estimate stands at seven weeks for India
CJP leaders: The Jantar Mantar protest in Delhi in July 2026
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CJP plans next protest steps as leaders’ release remains disputed
Union Station federal courthouse in Tacoma, where the Manjit Singh Bedi fraud case is being heard.
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Manjit Singh Bedi returned to US to face alleged SNAP fraud charges
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VFS Global opens Guwahati visa centre for 14 countries
India New Zealand FTA: Narendra Modi and Christopher Luxon at Hyderabad House, New Delhi, in March 2025
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India New Zealand FTA in force: free access, 5,000 visas and a first JCB export

The India New Zealand FTA took effect on 20 October 2026, giving Indian goods duty-free entry and opening capped work visas for Indian professionals and graduates.

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UK weighs investor visa ahead of Budget; no new route is open

The former Tier 1 route remains closed, while families weighing a move need published…
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Canada restores Express Entry job-offer points from 3 November

The new system rewards listed high-wage occupations, compares job offers with Canadian work experience…
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Judge orders DV-2027 lottery to open by 1 November

A revised court timetable gives the State Department new deadlines, but applicants must still…
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Visa sponsorship does not give employers control over passports or pay

Official guidance in five countries separates workplace protections from immigration status, while passport restrictions,…
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Amid rising support for right‑wing minor parties, can David Shoebridge reinvigorate the Greens?

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Consent After the Concrete: What Nepal’s Floods Reveal About Hydropower on Indigenous Land

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No Borders, No Nations: One Flag From Earth to Moon and Beyond

Promod Puri
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The Danger of Living in a Polarized World

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Why far-right ideas appeal beyond the fringe

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Floods in Nepal‑Tibet disrupt pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, a sacred mountain with centuries of evolving tradition

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Beyond the passport: The legal ambiguity of Indian citizenship

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Destruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian

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A ‘super El Niño’ could make India’s monsoon drier yet more dangerous

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Best of the Best puts South Asian campus dance on screen

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Brampton’s Punjabi Live Music Scene Thrives Beyond the Headline Acts

Self-taught DJs building their own stages, a radio network marking nineteen years of fundraising,…
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Literature

Indian-American Novels 2025: Three Remarkable Books Beyond The Migration Cliché

Megha Majumdar, Asha Thanki and Thrity Umrigar's newest novels swap the assimilation arc for…

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India and I by S. Y. Quraishi book cover

India and I

A Hundred Memories, Not a Memoir

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Heartland Rising by Javed Gaya book cover

Heartland Rising

The Making of Majoritarian India

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Who Owns the Past by Shaan Kashyap book cover

Who Owns the Past?

How historians rewrote India’s past and present

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Birth of a Nation by Josy Joseph book cover

Birth of a Nation

The Twenty-One Days That Made India

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In Light of India by Octavio Paz book cover

In Light of India

A poet’s reflections on India

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ठाकुर का कुआँ Poem in Hindi by Om Prakash Valmiki (with English translation)

ठाकुर का कुआँ Poem in Hindi by Om Prakash Valmiki (with English translation)

चूल्हा मिट्टी कामिट्टी तालाब कीतालाब ठाकुर का। Chulha mitti kaMitti Talaab kiTalaab Thakur Ka The stove is made out of mudThe mud is sourced…

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