The number of international students arriving in the United States this August fell by 19% compared with the same month last year, the largest drop on record outside of the pandemic, according to data from the oficial website of the International Trade Administration.The decline comes amid visa delays, new travel bans, and a surge in…
US Labor Secretary slams Democrats as shutdown leaves employees’ salaries delayed On October 4, 2025, US Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer criticised Democratic lawmakers for stalling federal work during the ongoing government shutdown. In a tweet, she said the Department of Labor has been working “around the clock to deliver on the President’s mandate to…
New Office of Culture and Community takes over Harvard’s former diversity centers Harvard College has reorganised its diversity and cultural programming, replacing three long-standing student centers with a new Office of Culture and Community (OCC), according to The Harvard Crimson. The College dissolved the Women’s Center, the Office for BGLTQ Student Life, and the Foundation…
US government shutdown 2025 disrupts Education Department and school operations The ongoing 2025 US government shutdown has brought significant disruptions to the federal Department of Education, raising concerns about the continued delivery of critical education services, student aid, and the enforcement of federal education laws. With nearly 87% of the department’s workforce furloughed, the effects…
As fall 2025 classes begin, Ohio’s public universities are reporting a mixed picture of enrollment trends. While several campuses have seen modest growth in overall student numbers, international student enrollment has dropped sharply, highlighting the challenges of attracting global talent amid policy shifts and ongoing uncertainties. Shawnee State University, Ohio University, and Bowling Green State…
Dame Jilly Cooper education and career path On 5 October 2025, Britain lost one of its most cherished literary voices. Dame Jilly Cooper passed away peacefully at the age of 88, leaving behind a legacy of wit, insight, and storytelling that captured the complexities of love, class, and human nature. From her early years as…
A recent Reddit post has sparked conversations about the intense work culture in some of America’s biggest companies. The poster, a new employee, described colleagues who begin sending emails and Slack messages as early as 6 a.m., long before many have left their homes, and continue working late into the night, sometimes past 11 p.m….
10 Indian and Indian-origin Nobel laureates The Nobel announcements for 2025 are under way. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries that explain how the immune system restrains itself — research on peripheral immune tolerance that helped define regulatory T-cells and opened…
2025 Nobel laureate Mary E. Brunkow and Amazon Executive chairman Jeff Bezos both share a Princeton connection. (Picture credits: nobelprize.org/cnbc.com) On the surface, Mary E. Brunkow, the 2025 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos seem worlds apart—one peering into the microscopic secrets of the human body, the other building a…
The Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited (BSPHCL) has officially announced the results for the Technician Grade 3, Correspondence Clerk, and Store Assistant positions on October 6, 2025. This recruitment drive aimed to fill a total of 2,156 Technician Grade 3 vacancies. Candidates who appeared for the Computer-Based Test (CBT) conducted from July 11 to…
