Indian researchers discover new exoplanet TOI-6038A b. Here's all about itIndian researchers have discovered a dense sub-Saturn exoplanet, TOI-6038A b, which is 78.5 times the mass of Earth. This exoplanet orbits ...
16 Feb, 2025, 10.26 AM IST
Sunak-era crackdown causes sharp fall in UK health worker visasThe number of British visas granted to foreign health and care workers, as well as to the family members of international students, has sha...
23 Aug, 2024, 11.45 AM IST
Portugal to use golden visa scheme to help migrants, build affordable homesPortugal plans a 'solidarity visa' to allow wealthy foreigners to invest in affordable housing for locals or migrants, complementing the go...
05 Jun, 2024, 12.33 PM IST
Why immigration is a major issue in Britain's electionBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledges to cut immigration if Conservative Party wins election, aiming to distinguish from Labour. Immig...
05 Jun, 2024, 12.26 PM IST
UK's Family Visa crackdown to impact many Indian family plansFrom March/April next year, this threshold will jump to GBP 38,700, inevitably set to have a significant impact on applicants from the Indi...
06 Dec, 2023, 08.51 PM IST
'Every second or third youth out of ten in international workforce would be Indian': MEA Secy Sanjay VermaIndia's Ministry of External Affairs Secretary, Sanjay Verma, has highlighted the potential for every second or third youth in the internat...
22 Nov, 2023, 12.39 PM IST
UK may be planning to hike minimum-wage requirement for foreign workersCurrently, workers outside shortage occupations require a minimum salary of £26,200 to take up jobs in the UK—a figure notably below the me...
21 Nov, 2023, 05.04 PM IST
Majority of doctors, nurses in UK came from India: StudyA new study has found that the majority of care workers sponsored for skilled work visas in the UK in 2022 came from non-EU countries, with...
28 Jun, 2023, 10.48 PM IST
Indian migrants may be caught up in UK’s Windrush scandalThe Windrush generation refers to citizens of former British colonies who arrived before 1973, when the rights of such Commonwealth citizen...
30 Apr, 2018, 11.09 PM IST
- Google honours astrophysicist Chandrasekhar with doodle
Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) Google on Thursday dedicated a special Doodle to mark the 107th birth anniversary of India-born US scientist Subrahma...
19 Oct, 2017, 01.22 PM IST
NASA's Kepler probe spots youngest exoplanet everThe planet, K2-33b, is slightly larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. It is one of the very few newborn pl...
21 Jun, 2016, 02.06 PM IST
Sun experiences seasonal changes: StudyThe quasi-annual variations appear to be driven by changes in the bands of strong magnetic fields in each solar hemisphere, researchers sai...
08 Apr, 2015, 04.22 PM IST
Oxford University VC Professor Andrew Hamilton attacks UK's student visa policyProf Andrew Hamilton views came soon after an attack on UK govt's immigration policy by Nobel Prize-winning British-American scientist John...
07 Oct, 2014, 09.06 PM IST
Visa curbs on skilled migrants hit UK talent pool: StudyThe number of recent migrants from outside EEA, which includes countries like India, fell from 154K in 2011 to 94K in 2013, a decrease of 3...
03 Jul, 2014, 09.40 PM IST
- Londoners less likely to support migration cuts
However, London, which has the highest migrant population and highest population density in the UK, does not have a clear majority in favou...
02 Dec, 2011, 07.50 PM IST
UK unlikely to meet migration cut targetDavid Cameron government's promise to substantially cut net migration during the tenure of the current parliament is unlikely to be met.
21 Jun, 2011, 10.48 PM IST
Darker side of light pollutionIndia like other countries world over is falling prey to one of the lesser known, but equally grave, type of pollution caused by none other...
20 Sep, 2009, 10.41 PM IST