- Sunday, May 19, 2024
This combination of pictures created on October 07, 2020 shows US Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee and Senator from California Kamala Harris during the vice presidential debate in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by…
Star Indian badminton couple Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap on Tuesday pulled out of the Denmark Open Super 750 tournament, which will restart the international calendar at Odense from October 13. The BWF World Tour was shut down following the completion of the All England Championships in March due…
INDIAN mortgage lender has sold part of its stake in London-based OakNorth Bank at 25 per cent discount. Indiabulls Housing Finance, the country’s third-largest mortgage lender, sold nearly 8 per cent of its stake in OakNorth for £111.8 million to Boston-based HighSage Ventures over the past couple of months, valuing…
INDIAN-ORIGIN US filmmaker M Night Shyamalan is teaming with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ campaign on a film making contest designed to help get out the vote. The competition, announced a day after Biden’s first debate against Donald Trump on September 29, is reaching out to aspirant filmmakers to submit a…
A SCHOOL in the West Midlands has apologised and removed a school workbook from its website following protests over a reference to terrorism and “vexatious” misinformation within a section on Hinduism. Angry parents and Hindu groups took to social media and highlighted segments of the text, which had made references…
DAYS of fighting between rival Rohingya drug gangs, in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, left seven people dead. Bangladesh police on Wednesday(7) said it has sent more troops to bring the situation back to normal. Two armed gangs of refugees from Myanmar are waging a deadly turf war…
INDIA’s rice exports may jump to record highs in 2020 as other rival exporters such as Thailand and Vietnam face various setbacks. Industry officials said that India’s rice exports this year will rise by nearly 42 per cent from a year ago because of reduced shipments from rival exporters and…
An Indian-American couple has pleaded guilty to laundering over $500,000 on behalf of India-based phone scammers, the US Department of Justice has said. US Attorney Byung J “BJay” Pak said while posing as federal agents or tech support, the call centres instructed victims to mail packages of cash that Mehulkumar…
President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday unveiled a tightening of rules for immigration visas used widely by technology firms, claiming the new system would be better for American workers. The Department of Homeland Security announced the new regulations for so-called H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, which allow up to…
A Pakistani court has overturned the 2014 conviction of a Christian man sentenced to death for blasphemy in a case that prompted a mob to set churches and hundreds of homes ablaze. Sawan Masih, a sanitation worker and father of three, was first arrested in 2013 in the eastern city…
