International

New York/Washington: The office of the US Trade Representative has removed a social media post that featured a map of India showing the entire region of Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, as well as the Aksai Chin region as part of the Indian territory....

Vancouver: A shooting at a school in British Columbia left eight dead including the suspect, with two more people found dead at a home believed to be connected to the incident, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said more than 25 people...

New York/Washington: White House has removed "pulses" from a list of American products on which it said India will eliminate or reduce tariffs, in a revised fact sheet issued on the interim trade deal. On Monday, the White House had issued a fact sheet on...

New York/Washington: India has already started ‘winding down’ its purchases of Russian oil, and New Delhi is 'ramping back up' buying energy from America and other sources, United States Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer said Tuesday. In a call between President Donald Trump and Prime...

Kathmandu: Nepal's Prime Minister Sushila Karki Tuesday thanked India for providing support for the upcoming elections in Nepal. Nepal is set to hold the House of Representatives elections March 5, the first since last year's deadly Gen-Z protests that toppled the K P Sharma Oli-led...

Kathmandu: Twelve people were killed and eight others injured Tuesday after a passenger bus fell into a river in central Nepal, police said. The incident occurred around 11 am when the bus enroute to Okhaldhunga from Kathmandu fell into the Tamakoshi River in Ramechhap municipality...

New Delhi: French President Emmanuel Macron will undertake a three-day visit to India beginning February 17, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced Tuesday. Macron will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, besides attending the AI Impact summit. Both leaders will hold discussions...

New York/Washington: A US lawmaker has introduced a bill to end the H-1B visa program, saying corporations have repeatedly abused this system and imported cheaper foreign labour into America. US Representative Greg Steube, a Republican from Florida, introduced the 'Ending Exploitative Imported Labour Exemptions Act...

Dhaka:  As a disturbing pattern of violence against minorities continues to mount across Bangladesh, another Hindu man was hacked to death by miscreants inside his business establishment in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh district, local media reported Tuesday. The deceased, identified as 62-year-old Sushen Chandra Sarkar,...

New York/Washington: In the coming weeks, the US and India will work toward finalising the interim agreement on trade with a view to concluding a mutually beneficial Bilateral Trade Agreement, the White House has said. The two countries will also continue negotiations to address remaining...