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The top seven Indian IT services companies recorded only 4,573 new H-1B approvals in FY 2025, a 70% decline from around 15,270 approvals in 2015 and 37% fewer than in FY 2024, according to a National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis based on USCIS employer data. This marks the sharpest downturn in a decade and comes at a time of significant changes in US visa policy.The shift reflects a broader realignment in the skilled immigration landscape. US technology firms — Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Google — now occupy the top four positions for initial H-1B approvals for the first time, indicating growing preference for US-based employers in the competition for high-skilled talent. Also Read| Trump needs qualified workers — but doesn’t want the immigrantsTop H-1B recipient
India is accelerating its space ambitions, targeting a sustained lunar presence within the next decade as part of its broader plan to become a developed economy by 2047.“By 2035, we’ll have a space station called Bharatiya Antariksh Station and by 2040 hopefully Indian human being landing on the surface of the Moon,” India’s Space Minister Jitendra Singh said in an interview to Bloomberg News in Panchkula, about 260 kilometers from New Delhi, on Saturday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has intensified efforts to close the gap with countries such as China, which already operates its own space station and aims to send astronauts to the moon by 2030. India is increasingly turning to private investment to establish itself as a global leader in space technology.“In space, we had a dismal
