India, Dec. 19 -- On directions from US President Donald Trump, the green card lottery program has been suspended in the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.

The development came days after deadly shootings at the Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others. The suspect in the shootings was identified as 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente.

Valente had reportedly obtained legal permanent residence status in 2017. Kristi Noem said that the suspected shooter entered the US through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) and later obtained a...