OCTOBER 5, 2019
NEW DELHI - Two long-haul Boeing 777 aircraft with missile defence systems that will serve on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘Air India One’ fleet will reach India in June 2020, two people familiar with the development said.
The aircraft will be the first set of planes that will only be used by PM Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind...
OCTOBER 5, 2019
“Immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our health care system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs,” President Trump wrote on Friday. - T.J. Kirkpatrick / NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration will deny visas to immigrants who cannot prove they will have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs...
OCTOBER 5, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump has ordered a significant staff cut at the White House National Security Council (NSC), Bloomberg reported late Friday, citing five people familiar with the matter.
Some of the individuals reportedly said that the move was part of an effort under new national security adviser Robert O'Brien, who told officials of the reduction alongside...
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Brief Scorecard: At Stumps - South Africa 385 for 8 (Elgar 160, de Kock 111, du Plessis 55, Ashwin 5-128) trail India 502 for 7 dec. (Agarwal, 215, Rohit 176, Maharaj 3-189) by 117 runs
VISAKHAPATNAM - South Africa exorcised some of the demons from their last tour of India on a day of glorious batting in which...
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Indiana Pacers edged past Sacramento Kings 132-131 on NBA s India debut. (Express photo: Nirmal Harindran)
MUMBAI, INDIA - Two security officials are deep in discussion at a yellow plastic barricade. Their orders were simple – no car was to come near the back entrance of the NSCI Stadium in Mumbai. And so they stopped a luxury...
OCTOBER 4, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House on Oct. 4, 2019, before his departure to nearby Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. - Pablo Martinez Monsivais
President Donald Trump on Friday defended his brazen call for foreign governments to interfere in the 2020 election by launching investigations...
OCTOBER 4, 2019
India has put the H-1B temporary visa programme for high-skilled professionals firmly back on the table for discussions with the United States after pussyfooting around it as the Trump administration put an unprecedented squeeze on it and its chief beneficiaries, Indian companies and IT professionals.
Jaishankar wrote in a tweet, that they discussed “promoting lawful travel, ensuring flow...
OCTOBER 4, 2019
NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday underlined the fact that there was no contradiction in being nationalistic and engaging with the world at the same time. He stressed that India was an outlier in that sense.
“India is an exception as we are more nationalistic, but at the same time we don’t see a...
OCTOBER 4, 2019
There is not a lot the United States or its space agency Nasa can do to help diagnose what went wrong with the Chadnrayaan-2 lander Vikram, the country's secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross said Friday.
Ross said that Vikram's communications system was internal to India and so, "I don't think we can do much about it".
Ross said...
OCTOBER 3, 2019
FILE: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during a meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman Kyiv, Ukraine, November 12, 2018 (Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump ordered the removal of the ambassador to Ukraine after months of complaints from allies outside the administration, including his personal lawyer Rudy...
