Florida teenager Vaibhav Bhaskar set out at fifteen to become valedictorian and break his state's GPA record — he did both so decisively, with a jaw-dropping 11.99 weighted average, that his own school district scrapped the grading system that made it possible
For decades, an American degree functioned as the most reliable ladder available to ambitious Indian families — new data showing F-1 visa issuance to Indians cratering by more than two-thirds is forcing a painful, generational reassessment of whether that ladder still holds
As the Ministry of External Affairs fields a wave of anxious questions from families across India, here is a plain-language breakdown of exactly what changes under the new US student visa framework, who is affected first, and what recourse Indian students actually have
As Washington scraps open-ended study permission for a rigid four-year limit, new analysis shows India — alongside China and South Korea — sitting directly in the blast radius, precisely as the country's students already face a battered visa pipeline and a shrinking post-graduation safety net
A boy from Chandigarh who studied computer science at IIT Delhi went on to help architect the infrastructure behind Google Search itself, then walked away twice to found Nutanix and Cohesity — proving that lightning can, in fact, strike the same person more than once
As anti-Indian sentiment simmers online amid heated debates over visas and immigration, community leaders are organizing a major July 25 gathering in the nation's capital to make an unambiguous, patriotic statement about belonging — anchored by the story of a 19-year-old who arrived on a student visa in 1967 and never left
Half of the ten national finalists in the prestigious 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge are Indian American — continuing a remarkable sixteen-year pattern in which Indian-origin children have claimed the title of America's Top Young Scientist seven times
The Department of Homeland Security has formally scrapped 'Duration of Status' for F-1 and J-1 visa holders, replacing open-ended study permission with a hard four-year clock — and the timing could not be worse for the roughly 1.5 million international students already inside the United States
A serial entrepreneur who has built and sold companies to Google and Alibaba is now building Hippocratic AI, a safety-focused generative AI model for healthcare that has already outperformed GPT-4 on more than a hundred medical exams and certifications
From an IIT Delhi entrance exam that changed the trajectory of his life, to Google's search labs, to co-founding Bloomreach and then Eightfold.ai, Garg has spent two decades trying to ensure people get the right career based on their capabilities — not their connections