New Delhi: India Thursday said it remained fully committed to the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of Afghanistan. New Delhi's assertion came amid an escalating conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan is infuriated with Afghanistan exercising sovereignty over its own territories. Pakistan seems to think...
New Delhi: The US has granted India a six-month waiver from American sanctions on the Chabahar port project, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Thursday. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also said that India's talks with the US for a trade deal are continuing. At...
New Delhi: China Thursday announced that it will suspend certain export restrictions, including export control on rare earth minerals, for one year. The development came after US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to ease trade tensions between the world's two...
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...
At a crucial juncture when US President Donald Trump seems to be too eager to make Ukraine a sacrificial...
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Tens of thousands of Indians had a harrowing experience last week as air travel virtually came to a grinding halt...
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On yet another 6 December, one feels obliged to write about the most seminal movement in modern India and one...
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