Washington: Weeks after raising H1B visa fees to USD 100,000, the US authorities announced the end of automatic extension of Employment Authorisation Documents (EAD) for foreigners, in a move likely to impact a large number of Indian immigrants and workers. In its latest efforts to...
Busan: President Donald Trump described his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Thursday as a roaring success, saying he would cut tariffs on China, while Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements and start buying American soybeans. The president told reporters...
Busan: President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the US will resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an “equal basis” with Russia and China. There was no indication that the US would start detonating warheads, but...
United Nations: India has strongly rejected “baseless observations” made by a UN expert on Myanmar that refugees from the Southeast Asian nation were “under severe pressure” following the Pahalgam terror attack, with Delhi denouncing this “prejudiced and blinkered” analysis. “I express serious objection to the...
Washington: US Federal Reserve Wednesday lowered its benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point, bringing the target range to 3.75 per cent to 4 per cent, as policymakers grapple with limited economic data due to a federal government shutdown. The rate cut marks the...
Washington: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he is directing the state’s Board of Governors to end the use of H-1B visas across state universities, saying that positions currently held by visa holders should be filled by Florida residents. Speaking at a press conference...
New Delhi: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali Angmo, on Wednesday claimed her husband was detained following the violent Ladakh protests because the government did not want him to be involved in statehood talks with Kargil and Leh organisations as it felt he was a...
Patna: As Bihar gears up for the Assembly elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed a massive public meeting in Sakra constituency of Muzaffarpur Wednesday, where he launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling NDA government, alleging that PM Modi “cares...
Jerusalem: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar will visit India next week to meet with the country's top leadership and discuss bilateral initiatives and regional developments. "Sa'ar will be on a two-day visit to New Delhi, November 4 and 5, and will be meeting Prime Minister...
Ambala: President Droupadi Murmu, who undertook a half-hour sortie in a Rafale fighter jet Wednesday from here, posed with Squadron leader Shivangi Singh, just before she took to the skies. Singh, the country's first woman Rafale fighter jet pilot, was claimed to have been captured...
Tensions between the US and Venezuela have reached a seemingly critical level over what the US administration ostensibly calls its...
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Despite the newfound bonhomie between China and India in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war, China is...
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In its latest annual review, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has assigned a ‘C’ grade to India’s national accounts statistics...
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Last month, along with Pakistan and Iraq, India was elected to the UN Human Rights Council from Asia. The UNHRC...
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