India, Dec. 19 -- Following deadly shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that killed three people and injured several others, US President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of the diversity visa programme, commonly known as the green card lottery.

The move came after authorities revealed that the alleged shooter, Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, had entered the United States through the diversity visa scheme. Acting on the president's directive, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem instructed US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to immediately halt the programme, describing it as a "disastrous" pathway.

"This heinous individual should never have been allowed in...