Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and several top members of the Biden administration will join powerful Congressional leadership and top corporate players from India and the US at this year’s ‘India Ideas Summit’ next week. The theme for this year’s two-day summit beginning on June 12 is “Trust, Resilience, and…
Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US this month will set new benchmarks for bilateral ties and big announcements are likely to be made on defence industrial cooperation and boosting India’s indigenous military base, the Pentagon has said. Prime Minister Modi will embark on his first state visit to the US at the invitation…
Washington: Many business groups look at India as part of a strategy to diversify globally and as a land for new supply chains and investment opportunities, a top White House official has said. Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, said the relationship between India and the US has developed over…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and said on Friday that artificial intelligence’s potential in enhancing India’s tech ecosystem is vast, among the youth in particular. “We welcome all collaborations that can accelerate our digital transformation for empowering our citizens,” he tweeted, describing the conversation with Altman as…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday hit out at the Modi government over reports of fresh Chinese military constructions along the LAC in Uttarakhand, and demanded that China should be confronted strategically and not by “hollow boasts”. The nation is paying a heavy price for the prime minister’s “clean chit” to China, he charged….
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high level meeting on Friday to take stock of the preparations and security for the upcoming Amarnath pilgrimage in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said. The 62-day-long annual pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath, located at a height of 3,880 metres in the south…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused urgent hearing on a plea challenging the notifications enabling exchange of Rs 2,000 currency notes without any requisition slip and ID proof. A vacation bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal perused the report filed by the registry, and said there is no urgency in the…
New Delhi: Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and five assembly polls due before the end of this year, the Election Commission has initiated “first level checks” of EVMs and papertrail machines across the country in a phased manner, sources said. “Mock polls” are part of the first level check (FLC) process, they said. “It…
Mumbai: The progress of the southwest monsoon that brings rain across the Indian sub continent is being monitored after it arrived in Kerala on Thursday, seven days later than the normal arrival date, an India Meteorological Department official said here. The normal date for onset of monsoon in Maharashtra is June 10 and in Mumbai is…
Bengaluru: Indian Space Research Organisation has decided not to rush its Gaganyaan project, the manned mission to space, as it wants to ensure that the country’s first human space flight is a ‘sure shot safe mission’, said its chairman S Somanath here on Thursday.. Gaganyaan was set to launch in 2022 but due to covid-19 there…
