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In this Thursday, June 30, 2016 photo, Babson College graduate school alumnus Abhinav Sureka, of Mumbai, India, right, types in his work space at the college in Wellesley, Mass. Some U.S. colleges are starting programs to help their alumni get visas through what critics say is a legal loophole. Foreign grads who want to stay and start a business typically apply for one of the 85,000 H-1B visas that the U.S. gives out each year. But college employees are exempt from that cap, so schools like UMass, Babson and CUNY have launched programs to hire alumni and foreign entrepreneurs and help them grow their businesses here.

EQUIPPED TO EXCEL

Headlines that say H-1B visas drive down US tech wages don’t tell the full story

A scooter passes in front of a Zara store in Madrid, Spain, June 15, 2016.

BROWSE, CLICK, SPEND

Zara will enter India’s e-commerce scene in 2017

A trolley laden with fresh and processed food sits parked in an aisle as customers shop at a supermarket in Mumbai May 30, 2011. Indians are increasingly heading to shiny, air-conditioned supermarkets where the aisles are packed with choice instead of the tiny stores where customers have to ask for items off dusty shelves offering just one or two brands of essential groceries. Picture taken May 30, 2011.

EAT RIGHT

Salt-free, fat-free, sugar-free: The new mantra of food makers in a health-conscious India

A villager gets her fingers skanned as she gives out the necessary data to get her Unique Identification card (UID) issued by the Indian government at a Government school in Chellur village, Tumkur district some145 KM North West from Southern Indian City of Bangalore, 22 April 2010. Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is an agency of the Government of India projec. It was established in February 2009, and will own and operate the Unique Identification Number database. The authority will aim at providing a unique number to all Indians, but not smart cards.It would provide a database of residents containing data including photographs and fingerprints scanned using biometrics readers.

AADHAAR IS STAR

World Bank’s top economist says India’s controversial ID program should be a model for other nations

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