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HYDERABAD: Indian professionals are facing the heat in the wake of a raging debate over H-1B visa reforms in the US. With President-elect Donald Trump's administration expected to introduce stricter immigration policies, several professionals have already been hit by job offer withdrawals, visa delays and warnings of potential layoffs. TOI spoke to eight professionals in the US and in Hyderabad, and at least three had their job offers abruptly revoked due to "visa-related concerns". Hyderabad-based software engineer V Puvvada (name changed) is one such professional. Hired by a US tech giant in Dec, she was preparing to move to San Francisco when her offer was revoked. She had, meanwhile, quit her current job. "I was offered the job in Dec 2024 and since I had a written confirmation, I resigned from my current job," said the 28-year-old. The company cited "changing visa dynamics" as the reason for withdrawing the offer. "I feel cheated. Why offer a...

NTA Postponed UGC NET December 2024 Exam: Candidates are advised to keep visiting the NTA website – nta.ac.in and ugcnet.nta.ac.in for latest updates on UGC NET December 2024 exam. NTA Postponed UGC NET Exam Scheduled on Jan 15 2025: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has postponed the January 15 exam of the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) December 2024. The postponement comes after representations were received to postpone the exam amid Pongal, Makar Sankranti and other festivals on January 15. The new exam date will be announced later, NTA said. UGC NET is held to award Junior Research Fellowship and appoint Assistant professor, for appointment as Assistant Professor and admission to PhD and admission to PhD only. The UGC NET December 2024 exam is conducted for 85 subjects. The UGC NET December 2024 exam which started on January 3 was supposed to continue till January 16. The exams scheduled to be held on January 16 will be conducted as per earlier s...

Is crowd-sourced fact-checking a better way of implementing content moderation? What role did fact-checkers play during the COVID-19 pandemic? How have fact-checking communities responded to Zuckerberg’s announcement? When are policy changes likely to be implemented? The story so far: On January 7, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will get rid of fact-checkers and simplify content policies by removing restrictions on topics as it is “out of touch with mainstream discourse.” In a five-minute video, he said that the company will return to its roots as the fact-checkers have been “too politically biased” and “destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.” After the 2016 U.S. presidential election results were out, Meta, then known as Facebook, faced serious backlash for amplifying political posts that helped tilt the election in favour of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. To build back its reputation, Facebook roped in content moderators globally and developed t...

The story so far: An assessment of India’s groundwater by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) found that several States are grappling with a serious problem of nitrate contamination. The most concerning finding was that the number of districts with excessive nitrate in their groundwater rose from 359 in 2017 to 440 in 2023. This works out to nearly 56% of India’s districts having excessive nitrate in ground water, defined as having more than 45 mg/l (milligram per litre). Of the 15,239 groundwater samples collected from across the country for testing, 19.8% samples had nitrates — nitrogenous compounds — above safe limits though it must be said that this proportion has not substantially changed since 2017. In the 13,028 samples analysed in 2017 for instance, 21.6% had excessive nitrate. There are two major concerns with excess nitrate content: one is methemoglobinemia, or a reduced ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen. Read more at:  https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-...

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