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The latest action completes the first round of USD 50 billion in products that President Donald Trump targeted after USD 34 billion in goods were hit with punitive duties on July 6. (Photo: File)

Trump says trade deficit with China cannot be allowed

The US and China have been locked in an escalating trade spat since early 2018, raising import tariffs on each other's...

2 Feb 2019 11:23 AM IST

US President Donald Trump greets supports at rally in Elko, Nevada. (Photo: AFP)

'Good chance' of declaring emergency to build proposed border wall:...

Donald Trump said there is a 'good chance' that he will declare a national emergency to build his proposed wall along...

2 Feb 2019 10:57 AM IST

A judge in the industrial city of Birmingham said Kasim Khurams crime offended all human sensibility. (Photo:West Midlands Police)

British man breaks into funeral home, has sex with a dead body, jailed...

A burglar who had sex with a corpse in an English funeral home he broke into was jailed Friday for six years.

2 Feb 2019 10:48 AM IST

The Indian Embassy has started collecting information from the public, including details of the Western Union account number or bank account details where the money was transferred. (Photo; Representational | File)

Indian embassy opens hotline for students detained by US authorities

As many as 129 Indians are among the 130 foreign students arrested for enroling at a fake university allegedly to remain...

2 Feb 2019 10:27 AM IST

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan visits the Prophets Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia (Photo: AP)

Pakistan launches dollar bond to save economy

Prime Minister Khan said Pakistan could become a role model for developing world once the ongoing efforts by the...

2 Feb 2019 7:41 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump shake hands after a document signing at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island on Tuesday in Singapore. (Photo: AP)

Second Trump-Kim summit planned for Vietnam

The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un over denuclearisation of the...

1 Feb 2019 5:02 PM IST

According to Aman Kapoor of Immigration Voice, H-1B extension change would be just wrong at every level. (Photo: Representational | File)

Attorneys cry foul as 130 students arrested in US immigration fraud

The 130 foreign students arrested for enroling at a fake university allegedly to remain in the US are largely Indians.

1 Feb 2019 1:43 PM IST

US President Donald Trump

Women to surround Donald Trump on his state of the union address

Seated in front of Trump will be a record number of women House members, most Democrats and some dressed in easy-to-spot...

1 Feb 2019 1:15 PM IST

More detainees are refusing food at the El Paso Processing Center (Photo:AP)

Detainees on hunger strike, including from India, being force-fed in...

Immigrants, including those from India, have gone on hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside...

1 Feb 2019 12:53 PM IST

Telecom Commission on Tuesday approved a proposal for allowing mobile phone calls and internet services in domestic and international flights in India.

Indian tourist jailed in Australia on account of child porn videos on...

Manpreet Singh, 32, will be deported to India after completing his prison term, the Australian Associated Press...

1 Feb 2019 11:20 AM IST

Three-term Congressman Ami Bera, who is the senior most among all Indian American lawmakers in the House of Representatives, has been renominated to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Science, Space and Technology Committee. (Photo: AFP)

Indian-American Ami Bera to chair key Congress subcommittee on foreign...

Indian-American Congressman Ami Bera has been named the head of a key Congressional subcommittee.

1 Feb 2019 11:02 AM IST

The so-called Transonic Truss-Braced Wing aircraft boasts a 170-foot (52 meter) wingspan that sits atop the fuselage and is braced from underneath by a truss in a design reminiscent of biplanes from the early years of aviation.

Plane skids off runway, closing parts of Tokyo's Narita main hub

The officials and the carrier said the 201 passengers and crew had all been escorted off the Boeing 787 jet with no...

1 Feb 2019 10:40 AM IST