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India offers spectrum of opportunities: FM Sitharaman tells

FM Sitharaman who is currently in US to attend the annual meetings of IMF, World Bank also apprised CEOs of various flagship programmes of the Indian govt under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat → Read More

Situation at Kabul airport ‘incredibly volatile’: US Secy of State Blinken

'We've seen wrenching images of people hurt, even killed that hit you in the gut,' says Blinken → Read More

US approves sale of Harpoon Joint Common Test Sets to India worth $82 million

The Harpoon missile is the world’s most successful anti-ship missile and is in service with the armed forces of more than 30 countries → Read More

US Vice President Kamala Harris to deliver message of solidarity with India tomorrow

Harris, 56, is the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to be elected US Vice President.India is currently dealing with a raging second of coronavirus → Read More

Singer Mary Millben urges Biden to help India as Covid cases see record spike

She said India is America’s strongest and largest democratically and it is time to help it.Millben has shared her voice, both on and off stage, with three consecutive US presidents (President George W Bush, President Barack Obama, and President Trump) → Read More

Green Card backlog: Indian-American healthcare workers hold demonstration

A Green Card, known officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants to the US as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently in the country → Read More

Biden to announce next phase of fight against Covid in his 1st prime-time speech

Biden is likely to talk about the sacrifices made by the American people and the millions of people whose lives have been changed by the pandemic → Read More

Spouses of H-1B holders protest against delay in processing of H-4 work permits

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise → Read More

US reaches 65,000 H-1B visa cap for 2021

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows the US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China → Read More

US in touch with India, Japan on Myanmar coup: State Department

State Department said that the US is in constant touch with regional allies like India and Japan on the latest developments in Myanmar as the two countries have better contact with the military in the Southeast Asian nation → Read More

Kamala Harris opens up about her first job as a laboratory glassware cleaner

US Vice President Kamala Harris took over the office from Mike Pence on January 20 → Read More

Donald Trump says he is hopeful of continuing as US President

Trump has been making unsubstantiated claims about widespread voter fraud and electoral malpractice in the presidential polls.The November 3 US presidential elections are officially scheduled to be certified next week → Read More

India has to be a key partner in engaging China from position of strength: Antony Blinken

Asserting that Joe Biden is a champion of the US-India relations, Antony Blinken had said that the former vice president had a vision for the US-India relations. → Read More

China sees rising India as 'rival', wants to constraint its ties with US, allies: Report

The 70-page report states that awareness has been growing in the US that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has triggered a new era of great-power competition.Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a bitter standoff in several areas along the LAC in eastern Ladakh → Read More

Barack Obama spent childhood years listening to Ramayana and Mahabharata

Barack Obama says he had never been to India before his Presidential visit in 2010.In 'A Promised Land', Obama gives an account of his journey from the 2008 election campaign to the end of his first term → Read More

Joe Biden administration likely to provide US citizenship to over 500,000 Indians

The Biden administration will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of the US' immigration system.Joe Biden will also restore and defend the naturalisation process for green card holders, the policy document said → Read More

Donald Trump is a warrior; needs four more years as president: Ivanka Trump

Ivanka said the mission of Trump is to make America great again.She said Trump has taken the US in the right direction in the last four years → Read More

Donald Trump is a fighter, says First Lady Melania

'Donald is a fighter. He loves this country and he fights for you every single day,' said Melania.The First Lady accused the democrats of having chosen to put their own agenda ahead of the American people’s well-being → Read More

US monitoring India-China border row, does not want it to escalate: Official

We as a government are covering the situation in the Himalayas closely, Trump official said.India and China are locked in a bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh since early May that has significantly strained the bilateral ties → Read More

Kamala Harris turns 56, Biden says wants to celebrate her next birthday at White House

Biden took to Twitter to post a photograph showing their hands clasped together.'Happy Birthday, Kamala Harris. Next year, let's celebrate with some ice cream at the White House,' tweeted Biden → Read More