JUNE 25, 2020
Person holding Indian Passport with hand on a US or american flag as background.
India on Thursday said the US administration's decision to temporarily suspending entry of some categories of non-immigrant visa-holders till December is expected to affect the movement of skilled Indian professionals.
However, India remains hopeful that its professionals "will continue to be welcomed in the...
JUNE 24, 2020
Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said China has made a direct link between Meng’s arrest and its detention of two Canadian citizens. - Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is under high-profile domestic pressure to halt the extradition process that could send Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to the United States —...
JUNE 24, 2020
Jamaal Bowman wasn’t supposed to win.
Jamaal Bowman speaks to a crowd during a rally in New York City. José A. - Alvarado Jr. / Redux
The 44-year-old black progressive candidate, a former middle-school principal, challenged a New York representative who’s been in Congress since before the fall of the Berlin Wall and who had the backing of...
JUNE 24, 2020
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Delaware State University's student center in Dover, Delaware, on June 5, 2020. - Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Joe Biden and his presidential campaign plan to make a new push on health care and protecting the Affordable Care Act this week -- including at an in-person campaign event...
JUNE 24, 2020
President Trump, left, speaks to Attorney General William P. Barr in May 2019. (Bloomberg/Photographer)
The Justice Department under Attorney General William P. Barr has made several controversial and extraordinary decisions with regard to President Trump and his allies. And two of those decisions came to a head Wednesday.
First came a federal court ruling that the case against...
JUNE 23, 2020
Biden Campaign Image: Joe Biden, Barack Obama
Former President Obama, in his first appearance on the 2020 virtual campaign trail with presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, promised that "help was on the way — if we do the work," before tearing into President Donald Trump's "shambolic" approach to government.
At an online "grassroots fundraiser" streamed online —...
JUNE 23, 2020
Pichai came to the US F-1 visa for students. Satya Nadella used the visa programme also, but for an entirely different reason. Indra Nooyi, who was raised in Chennai and went to the Madras Christian College, went on H-1B visa when she joined the Boston Consulting Group in 1980 (HT Photo)
Sundar Pichai started out on H-1B and...
JUNE 23, 2020
The Bihar government has raised concerns over Nepal stalling repair work on the Gandak barrage as well as a key embankment on the Lalbakeya river.
The state has taken up the matter with the External Affairs and Jalshakti ministries.
As per a long-standing arrangement, the Bihar government maintains the Gandak barrage afflux on both sides of the border. India...
JUNE 23, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Philadelphia. - Reuters/Bastiaan Slabbers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dozens of Republican former U.S. national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, people familiar with the effort said, in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of...
JUNE 23, 2020
President Trump walks across the stage as he speaks about walking down a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point during a campaign rally at the BOK Center Saturday in Tulsa.
The early June meeting in the Cabinet Room was intended as a general update on President Trump’s reelection campaign, but the president had other topics...
