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Time to end the visa lottery. Congress must secure the immigration system and protect Americans, Trump tweeted. (Photo: AFP)

Ending merit-based immigration will end green card backlog: US

Indian-Americans are highly skilled and come to the US mainly on H-1B work visas are the worst sufferers of the current...

9 Feb 2018 5:28 PM IST

Congress had missed a midnight deadline when a conservative senator refused to allow an early vote on the compromise bill, but now a signature by Trump, who supports the deal, will reopen government offices. (Photo: AFP)

Federal spending bill passed in Senate, sent to Trump to end shutdown

The House voted 240 to 186 in support of a bipartisan package that extends government funding until March 23.

9 Feb 2018 4:27 PM IST

China views the Maldives as key to its Maritime Silk Road project in the Indian Ocean as it has already acquired Hambantota port in Sri Lanka and Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. (Photo: AP)

Doesn't want Maldives to become another flash point', in talks with...

The Doklam stand-off and China's opposition to declaring Masood Azhar, a global terrorist at UN had been major irritants...

9 Feb 2018 3:53 PM IST

Modi, the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Palestine, is reaching Ramallah on Saturday amid heightened tensions. (Photo: AP)

Modi capable of mending our relation with Israel: Palestine Prez

The Palestinian leader on several occasions has stressed on a possible role for New Delhi in the Middle East peace...

9 Feb 2018 1:44 PM IST

The police said that the shooting appeared to be a case of personal enmity over a property dispute.

Indian-American killed, another injured in shootings at US stores

The suspect, Lamar Rashad Nicholson, 28, was arrested on multiple charges, including murder and aggravated robbery.

9 Feb 2018 12:51 PM IST

Second US govt shutdown in 3 weeks, spending plan falls flat in senate

Second US govt shutdown in 3 weeks, spending plan falls flat in senate

The upper chamber of Congress will launch a new effort to pass the bill to extend government funding on Friday.

9 Feb 2018 11:28 AM IST

Trump, Modi discuss Maldives crisis, N Korea over phone call

Trump, Modi discuss Maldives crisis, N Korea over phone call

Narendra Modi and Donald Trump also exchanged views on Myanmar and ways to address the plight of the Rohingya refugees.

9 Feb 2018 9:37 AM IST

Mashkoor Ahmad Lari is the owner of Kathmandus five-star Everest Hotel, which remained closed after its building developed major cracks in 2015 earthquakes. (Screengrab | theeveresthotel.com)

Wanted by Interpol, top Indian hotelier in Nepal held for drug...

The police was searching the hotelier after narcotic drugs were found in a parcel dispatched by him from Kathmandu to...

9 Feb 2018 8:59 AM IST

On the perception that Maldives was closer to China, Ahmed Mohamed said India should reach out to Maldives, and Male and New Delhi should have close ties given that the two countries are neighbours. (Photo: Twitter/@ahmedMDV)

India was first stop for special envoy's visit but declined: Maldives

Maldives has send special envoys to China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to brief them about the deepening political crisis...

9 Feb 2018 7:57 AM IST

A member of the Syrian civil defence retrieves the body of a child from the rubble of a house hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held town of Jisreen, in Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on Thursday. (Photo: AFP)

US-led coalition strikes on Syria force kill 100

According to the US Central Command, coalition advisers were also present at the site of the attack late on Tuesday.

9 Feb 2018 2:45 AM IST

A Maldives soldier stands guard outside the Presidents residence in Male on on Thursday. The international community has censured Maldives President Abdulla Yameen for imposing special Emergency provisions that allow the military to detain suspects for long periods without charge. AFP The UN has urged Yameen to lift the state of emergency, and will discuss the crisis gripping the Indian Ocean archipelago in a closed-door meeting at the Security Council on February 8. (Photo: AFP)

A few people' stirred crisis: Abdulla Yameen

The Yameen government refused to obey the court orders and declared a state of emergency in the country.

9 Feb 2018 2:42 AM IST

Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal (Photo: AP)

10,000 troops to protect Chinese in Pakistan

China, he said, was ramping up investment as part of a $ 54 billion project known as the China-Pakistan Economic...

9 Feb 2018 2:35 AM IST