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| | President Donald Trump unveiled a new immigration policy on Tuesday where any foreign individual can pay five million dollars, obtain a Gold Card, akin to a Green Card, and become a permanent resident of America. The Gold Card will also create a pathway for citizenship of the United States. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. | THE BIG STORY New Trump plan for rich migrants: $5mn Gold Card President Donald Trump unveiled a new immigration policy on Tuesday where any foreign individual can pay five million dollars, obtain a Gold Card, akin to a Green Card, and become a permanent resident of America. The Gold Card will also create a pathway for citizenship of the United States. The new Gold Card will replace the EB-5 visa that allowed those foreign individuals who invested a little over a million dollars in general, or $800,000 in targeted employment areas, and created ten jobs to acquire residency in America. The EB-5 visa was created by the US Congress in 1990 to spur foreign investment. Read more. | THE BIG QUESTION Will Arvind Kejriwal enter Rajya Sabha from Punjab? The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday named a sitting Rajya Sabha member as its candidate for an upcoming assembly bypoll in Punjab, fuelling speculation that former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will fill the vacant Upper House seat even as the party sought to scotch the rumours. The party said that Sanjeev Arora, a Rajya Sabha member from Punjab, will be its candidate for the Ludhiana West assembly bypoll, whose date is yet to be announced. The seat fell vacant when sitting legislator Gurpreet Bassi Gogi died of a gunshot injury after his licensed weapon accidentally went off last month. Read more. | STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED |  Thousands of Xs visited the city of Golden, in Colorado USA, for the annual Goldens in Golden event, held since 2019. All the Xs were leashed, cheerful and well-behaved. No precious metals, only precious belly rubs. Give the specific breed of X. | FROM THE EDIT PAGE Representation puzzle for Centre Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin has called a meeting of all recognised political parties in the state on March 5 to discuss delimitation, which will change the number of Lok Sabha seats across states. The politics behind the idea is simple. Southern states such as Tamil Nadu and Kerala now have a much smaller share in India’s population today than what they had when the existing distribution of Lok Sabha seats was done. Any redistribution which works on the basis of current population numbers will lead to a drastic fall in the north-south balance in India’s national legislative. Read more. | | | Infographic of the Day  (Click to expand) |  Golden Retriever | Photo of the Day A city landmark  Caption: This massive heap of waste, brought daily from across Delhi in hundreds of trucks, claims a portion of the capital’s eastern outskirts. The hill in Ghazipur doesn’t climax into a peak but fans out in a sort of plateau. This afternoon, the long drain flowing by the garbage hill is shimmering under the bright sun. The Ghazipur garbage hill, or landfill, came up in 1984. Over the years, the hill kept rising and rising. Although the garbage is continually recycled and processed, the pileup is acknowledged today as the largest garbage mountain in India. Photo credit: Mayank Austen Soofi | HT THIS DAY: February 27, 2002 Parliamentary committee rejects foreign equity in print media Among those who opposed FDI were members representing the Left parties, the Congress, and two BJP allies - the Telugu Desam and the Biju Janata Dal Read more. | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | | 
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