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US to send COVID-19 supplies worth $100 million to India
The first shipment includes 960,000 rapid tests, which can detect Covid in 15 minutes, and 100,000 N95 masks for frontline health workers
29 Apr 2021 9:44 AM
Biden promises supplies to help India beat COVID-19
Prime Minister Modi thanks Japan PM for providing assistance to India for combating the pandemic in 'summit phone talk'
27 Apr 2021 6:59 AM
Brazil sees record-high ICU occupancydue to COVID-19 surge
The South American country has the world's second-largest COVID-19 outbreak after the US, with 340,776 deaths and 13,193,205 infections
08 Apr 2021 2:55 PM
Indian IT professionals to benefit as Biden lets Trump era H-1B visa bans expire
No new proclamation was issued by Biden till Wednesday mid-night, resulting in the automatic end to the ban on issuing of fresh H-1B visas
01 Apr 2021 11:05 AM
Trump plans social media return with his own platform
Twitter last week said it would seek public input on when and how it should ban world leaders, saying it was reviewing policy
24 Mar 2021 2:29 PM
India, US agree to re-establish Homeland Security Dialogue
An initiative of the Obama administration, the first India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in May 2011
24 Mar 2021 11:48 AM
Colorado supermarket shooter kills 10, including police officer
Police said the suspected gunman was believed to be the only individual with serious injuries who survived the bloodshed
23 Mar 2021 11:20 AM
US, China spar over world order during their first meeting under Biden
The relations between the US and China are at an all-time low
19 Mar 2021 3:31 PM
Georgia massage parlor shootings leave 8 dead
Four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent, as a 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody
17 Mar 2021 2:53 PM
Biden tells migrants 'don't come' as criticism grows
Republican critics say Biden's policies caused a sharp increase in migrants seeking to cross into the US illegally
17 Mar 2021 11:23 AM
Satya Nadella, US lawmakers appalled by ongoing acts of hate against Asian Americans
More than 3,000 incidents of abuse against Asian Americans were reported between March and December 2020
13 Mar 2021 12:43 PM
Biden announces all Americans to be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination by May 1
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 29,150,068 and 529,102, respectively
12 Mar 2021 10:01 AM
Judge OKs 3rd-degree murder charge for ex-cop in Floyd death
Floyd was declared dead on May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against the Black man's neck for about nine minutes
11 Mar 2021 11:53 PM
US will share COVID-19 vaccine if it has surplus: Biden
We are going to start off making sure Americans are taken care of first but we are then going to try to help the rest of the world, he said
11 Mar 2021 10:37 AM
US warns China ahead of Quad’s first leaders’ summit in virtual format
The common denominator in what we talked about China is that we will engage it from a position of strength
11 Mar 2021 9:03 AM
Indian-Americans taking over US, says Biden at NASA meet
The Biden administration has for the first time appointed such a large number of Indian-Americans in the first 50 days of his administration
05 Mar 2021 11:48 AM
Legislation on H-1B visas introduced in US Congress
Given that the Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, the bill has little chance to be passed
04 Mar 2021 12:15 PM
Will ensure that America not China sets the international agenda: White House
The comments were made in the Biden administration's Interim National Security Strategic Guidance released on Wednesday
04 Mar 2021 11:44 AM
Trump may run for 2024; says we've gone from America first to America last in 1 month
In his speech, the former president reiterated his allegation that there was massive electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential elections
01 Mar 2021 11:01 AM
US says Saudi crown prince MBS approved Jamal Khashoggi murder but spares him sanctions
Blinken announces the 'Khashoggi Act' that will ban foreigners' entry into US who threaten dissidents or harass reporters and their families
27 Feb 2021 11:22 AM
Columns
Mr Jaishankar, even when overseas, has become a flag-bearer for the current Hindutva model, precursor to the RSS’ Hindu Rashtra dream
It is a fact that she has packed the staff and advisory phalanx of the PM’s office with her friends and people she agrees with politically
The reservations issue poses a special dilemma for Shiv Sena and BJP, as both subscribe to conservative ideologies of different shades
Even in these traumatic times, those of us who can work from home, for instance, are massively better positioned than others