Amit Malviya. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The BJP on Sunday (February 16, 2025) claimed that a U.S.-funded programme, now cancelled, linked to voter turnout in India is a pointer to the previous Congress-led UPA government allegedly enabling infiltration of Indian institutions by forces opposed to the country’s interests. BJP’s IT department head Amit … Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the latter emplanes for Washington | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (February 12, 2025) departed for the U.S. to meet President Donald Trump after wrapping his two-day visit to France where he co-chaired the Artificial Intelligence Action … Read more
View of U.S. Consulate General Hyderabad. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL For the second year in a row, the U.S. Mission to India issued more than one million non-immigrant visas, including a record number of visitor visas, underscoring the huge demand of Indians for tourism, business, and education. In the last four years, the … Read more
South Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun, centre, poses for photos with United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, right, and Japan’s Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano during their trilateral meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The United States, Japan and South Korea on … Read more
Referring to Rahul Gandhi’s recent four-day visit to the United States, Mr. Gehlot said the BJP has completely “panicked” due to the success of Mr. Gandhi’s U.S. visit and has started spreading rumours about it. | Photo Credit: ANI Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Friday (September 13, 2024) that the ruling BJP … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accused the RSS of considering some religions, languages, and communities of being inferior to others. File | Photo Credit: PTI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of considering some religions, languages, and communities of being inferior to others and said that the fight in India … Read more
A file photo of former Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Vinay Mohan Kwatra on Monday (August 12, 2024) took charge as the Indian ambassador to the United States. Mr. Kwatra, 61, till recently was India’s Foreign Secretary. Privileged to assume charge as the Ambassador of India to the United States … Read more
A ‘village volunteer’ stands guard at a bunker set up in conflict-hit Manipur. | Photo Credit: PTI The United States has asked its nationals not to travel to Manipur, Jammu and Kashmir, the India-Pakistan border, and parts of central and eastern parts of the country where Naxalites are active. In a revised travel advisory for … Read more
The Kerala Fisheries Coordination Committee staging a protest against the U.S. ban on Indian wild-caught shrimp on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Fishermen under the aegis of Kerala Fisheries Coordination Committee, representing fisheries trade unions across the spectrum of political affiliations, organised a march to the headquarters of the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology … Read more
VIT’s founder and chancellor G. Viswanathan, and R. Seenivasan, director, International Relations (VIT), signed a Letter of Intent with the University of North Texas for research and academic collaboration with VIT recently. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, has entered into an academic and research co-operation with top U.S. institutions including … Read more