- Monday, May 06, 2024
INDIA's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu has met US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to discuss the bilateral commercial relationship. The meeting Monday (23) came days after Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said hopes of an India-US trade pact are off the table for now. Sandhu and Raimondo…
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday (24) accused Beijing of coercion and intimidation to back unlawful claims in the South China Sea, her most pointed comments on China during a visit to Southeast Asia, which she said was critical to US security. Harris's seven-day trip to Singapore and Vietnam,…
MICROSOFT INDIA has collaborated with Invest India to support tech startups in the country. Under the initiative, the Microsoft for Startups programme will work closely with accelerating growth of new India's innovations (AGNIi Mission), a statement said. Executed by Invest India, AGNIi Mission helps startups become enterprise-ready. ALSO READ: Indian…
HOMEOWNERS in the US can now erase racial covenants from their property documents as some states in the US have made the procedure easier, according to a report in The New York Times. A racial covenant is a clause that barred anyone “other than the White or Caucasian race” from…
THE president of India's ruling party has slammed the left government in Kerala over the poor Covid-19 management and the law and order situation in the state. BJP president J P Nadda has blamed the left government's "political attitude" for the crimes against women, alleged operation of terror cells, and…
INDIA's health ministry on Tuesday (17) said that the country administered more than 8.8 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours. The new figure is close to its all-time record and speeding up a campaign to inoculate all eligible adults by December. The country hit a record high…
THE US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lowered India's travel advisory to "Level 2: moderate," while the state department eased its India rating to "Level 2: exercise increased caution." The new advisory level, which is considered safe, came in the wake of the significant improvement in the…
AS MANY AS 35 Afghan students, including girls, who were offered Chevening Scholarships by the government to study in the UK, have been told they will not now be able to take up their places, reported the BBC. These scholarships enable promising students around the world to pursue a masters…
AS THE delta variant spreads faster in the US, the number of children hospitalised with Covid-19 hit a record high of just over 1,900. The variant has caused hospitalisations to spike in recent weeks, driving up the number of pediatric hospitalisations to 1,902 on Saturday (14), according to data from…
TO BOOST uptake among students, UK Universities are setting up their own vaccination centres as they want to make campuses as safe as possible for the autumn term, The Guardian reported. As millions of students arriving in September, some universities are already warning freshers to get fully vaccinated, the report…
