World
Move over Justin Bieber, it is Ed Sheeran’s turn to enthrall the Indian fans with his music on November 19. Sheeran’s official website on Wednesday put out a post listing his dates for various cities during his tour of Asia in October and November with Mumbai being one of the stops. The two time Grammy-winning […]
Acting on his ‘Buy American, Hire American’ pledge, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order for tightening the rules of the H-1B visa programme, the most sought-after by Indian IT firms and professionals, to stop “visa abuses”. Trump signed the order that calls for tightening the rules of the programme at the Kenosha, […]
In an unexpected announcement, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today said the government will replace its popular 457 visa that brings temporary foreign workers to the country with a new version that will recruit only the “best and the brightest in the national interest”. The move to abolish the visa, used by over 95,000 temporary […]
Today in Moscow, An explosion 2 train carriages in a metro station at Saint Petersburg 10 people were killed and several others were injured. A huge whole was blasted in the side of one carriage with mangled metal wreckage strewn around the platform. Passengers were seen hammering at the windows of one closed carriage. Authorities […]
US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American Ajit Pai to serve another term at the powerful Federal Communications Commission. Pai is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He was designated Chairman by President Trump in January 2017. He had previously served as Commissioner at the FCC, appointed by then-President Barack Obama and confirmed […]
Today in a tragedy charter plane with Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to the biggest game in its history crashed in the Colombian mountains after an electrical fault, killing 75 people on board, authorities said. Colombia’s worst air disaster in two decades killed all but three of players on the team from Brazil’s top soccer league […]
Donald Trump was on the cusp of creating history as he inched closer to clinching the US presidency with a strong showing in battleground states helping him trump Hillary Clinton in the knife-edge race. Major US news networks projected Republican candidate Trump to have won the crucial battleground states of Florida, Ohio and North Carolina. […]
Today BIMSTEC leaders including PM Narendra Modi and premiers of participating countries before the start of the Summit in Goa. All were honoring the memory of one of Asia’s tallest leaders. The BIMSTEC leaders observe a silence for one minute in memory of the late King of Thailand. BIMSTEC leaders were discussing regional and global […]
Today in a deadly train crash in New Jersey, at least 1 person is dead and about 100 are injured after a New Jersey Transit train from New York crashed into Hoboken rail Station.
India’s High Commissioner to UK Navtej Sarna was today appointed as Ambassador to the US, a high-profile posting where he will face the task of engaging with a new administration in Washington following the November 8 Presidential poll. Sarna, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1980 batch, was serving as Secretary (West) in […]
