WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Tuesday threw its weight behind India’s opposition to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying it passes through a disputed territory and no country should put itself into a position of dictating the Belt and Road initiative. India skipped the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) in May this year due to its sovereignty…
LONDON: A Ghana-based Indian entrepreneur has won a prestigious business award in the UK for his efforts to bring innovative IT solutions to Africa. Birendra Sasmal, CEO of Subah, bagged the International Business Person of the Year at the Asian Achievers Awards in London last week, for turning the company into a thriving IT, telecoms and manufacturing success…
Canberra: Australian investigators on Tuesday released their final report on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, saying the inability to bring closure for victims families was a “great tragedy” and “almost inconceivable” in the modern age. It has now been three-and-a-half years since MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew disappeared en route to Beijing…
Las Vegas: The mass shooting in Las Vegas is the deadliest in modern United States history, but is it terrorism? While much will hinge on the motives of a white gunman attacking a mostly-white country music crowd, that uncomfortable question also hits at some of America’s most divisive issues: race, religion and politics. The FBI…
WASHINGTON : In the first two months after a June Supreme Court ruling allowed partial implementation of President Donald Trump‘s travel ban, visas issued on average each month to citizens of six countries targeted by the order were 18 percent lower compared to the month prior to the ban, a Reuters analysis of government data shows. The 3,268…
The woman was caught on Friday based on a tip-off that she had bought a seven-day-old boy for Rs 20,000 and was going to sell him to a childless couple for Rs1.50 lakh. The 29-year-old woman from Worli, who was arrested for buying a newborn for Rs20,000 with an intention to sell the child to…
Around 1,500 people, from different nationalities, are expected to join the march which will be the first such event to be held on such a large scale in the Netherlands, a press release issued by the embassy said. AMSTERDAM: People advocating non-violence will join hands with the Indian community in the Netherlands and the Embassy of…
Rahul Gandhi in New York: “The challenge in India was to create jobs for the 30,000 young people who enter the job market every day, and of whom only 450 get employed.” Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi asserted that there was a growing concern in the US over threats to tolerance in India and asked the…
NEW DELHI: Indian techies and industry can breathe a sigh of relief as the US has resumed premium, or expedited, processing of H-1B visas in all categories. The service was suspended five months ago as officials struggled to handle a huge rush of applicants. The suspension+ had been seen as an example of US President Donald Trump‘s election campaign remarks…
Online jihadist propaganda attracts more clicks in the UK than any other country in Europe, a report has found. Britain is the fifth-biggest audience in the world for extremist content after Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Policy Exchange’s study said. The think tank suggested the UK public would support new laws criminalising reading content that…
