President Joe Biden greets China’s President President Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. File | Photo Credit: AP Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden to “earnestly implement” the outcomes of their summit in November as they exchanged congratulatory messages on January 1, 2024 to mark … Read more
PM Modi, President Biden welcome progress in defence ties Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday welcomed the completion of the notification process in the U.S. Congress on August 29 for a commercial agreement between General Electric Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) to manufacture GE F-414 jet engines in India … Read more
“We thought we could die.” The Russian invasion had just begun when Nancy Pelosi made a surprise visit to Ukraine, the House speaker then the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to lead a congressional delegation to Kyiv. Ms. Pelosi and the lawmakers were ushered under the cloak of secrecy into the capital city, an undisclosed passage … Read more
The story so far: “The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump…None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” concluded the U.S. House Select Committee in its final report released on Thursday, December 22, after an 18-month-long probe in which it conducted over 1,000 interviews, 10 … Read more
A view of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army H-6 bomber. File photo used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP China’s military sent 39 planes and three ships towards Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said on December 22. China’s military harassment of self-ruled Taiwan, which … Read more
Image for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images COP27 | India opposes draft text on agriculture India has opposed the developed world’s efforts to extend the scope of mitigation to agriculture at the ongoing U.N. climate summit in Egypt, saying rich nations do not want to change their lifestyles to reduce emissions and … Read more
Gold rose for the fourth consecutive week and scaled the pivotal $1800/oz level; however, the bulls lost confidence and the metal registered its first decline in five weeks. Gold ended the week with a sharp 3 per cent decline. The trend in the US dollar has been one of the key price determining factors for … Read more
5.47pm GMT 17:47 Lawmakers announce bipartisan legislation to suspend trade relations with Russia, Belarus Congressmen Richard Neal and Kevin Brady – the Democratic chair and Republican leader of the House ways and means committee, respectively – and senators Ron Wyden and Mike Crapo – the Democratic chair and the Republican ranking member of the Senate … Read more
The US House of Representatives will soon introduce a bill to increase US competitiveness with China and boost federal spending on semiconductors, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday as the Biden administration seeks to boost domestic chip production. “The House will soon introduce its competitiveness bill,” she said in a note to Democratic colleagues. The … Read more
The US House of Representatives will soon introduce a bill to increase US competitiveness with China and boost federal spending on semiconductors, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday as the Biden administration seeks to boost domestic chip production. “The House will soon introduce its competitiveness bill,” she said in a note to Democratic colleagues. The … Read more