Seoul/Washington, September 4 : South Korea said on Monday it was preparing fresh military drills with its ally the United States and ramping up its ballistic missile defences in response to North Korea’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test a day earlier. The United Nations Security Council was set to meet later on Monday to discuss […]
New Delhi : Even as the Bihar allies-BJP and JD-U-are claiming “all is well”, the fast-changing political canvas in the state appears to be far from settled and a perception has gone down that the saffron outfit is not ready to play the second fiddle to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s party.There were clear indications that […]
Houston, September 4 : A 25-year-old Indian student has died here, days after she was rescued along with another Indian man from a swollen lake in the US state of Texas where Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc. Shalini Singh, a student pursuing Master’s degree in public health from the Texas A&M University, was rescued from the […]
Washington, September 4 : US President Donald Trump is set to scrap a programme that grants work permits to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children, a move likely to impact more than 7,000 Indian-Americans, a media report said today. The programme —Deferred Action for Children Arrival (DACA) —was a key immigration reform of […]
Xiamen, September 4 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday sought a strong partnership among BRICS nations to spur growth, saying that the bloc has developed a robust framework for cooperation and contributed to the stability in a world “drifting towards uncertainty”.Addressing the plenary session of the BRICS Summit in China’s Xiamen city, Modi said […]