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
Long before generative AI became a household term, Sri Ambati was quietly building open-source machine learning tools used by thousands of organizations worldwide — and mobilizing his company's resources to save lives in India during the COVID-19 Delta wave