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xIf US President Donald Trump’s brutally sudden fiat isn’t just a bargaining ploy, it has cut short what could have burgeoned into the biggest brain drain in history, affecting one million Indians and more than 70 per cent H-IB visa holders. Even without this sudden cut-off, dismay and disappointment may have awaited India’s leaders who expected Artificial Intelligence to bring untold opportunity without realising the daunting challenge it presented to a nation where the “India Skills Report 2025” found that only 58.4 per cent of local graduates are fit for employment.

Nowhere else in the world will 15,75,760 sturdy young men scramble for 4,543 jobs, as witnessed recently in chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh, said to be the pointer to India’s future. Indian polit

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