Washington: Amid growing tensions over the United States’ new H-1B visa policies, Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar emphasized the undeniable importance of a global workforce, pointing out that the domestic populations of many nations alone cannot meet their labor demands. Speaking at the event “At the Heart of Development: Aid, Trade, and Technology”, hosted by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Jaishankar’s remarks came as a subtle yet pointed response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recently announced visa diktats.

In a policy move widely seen as targeting Indian professionals, Trump imposed a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, asserting that the program had been exploited to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign labor and cit

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