Thimphu: India has agreed to positively consider providing Rs 1,500 crore to Bhutan as part of the Economic Stimulus Programme in the next 18 months, the two governments said on Saturday at the end of Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s visit and his wide-ranging talks with the Himalayan nation’s leadership. Misri, who was on his first…
Milwaukee: In his first major public address since surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump gave a clarion call for unity as he accepted his Republican party’s presidential nomination with a pledged to deliver a government that will begin four greatest years in American history if he is elected in November. The 78-year-old former US president…
Milwaukee: J D Vance would make a great vice president for America, his Indian-American wife Usha Chilukuri Vance has said, as she introduced him at the Republican National Convention by giving an insight into their life, about him accepting her vegetarian diet and his ability to cook Indian food. A Yale law graduate and a…
Milwaukee (US): India is a “strategic” ally, and the United States is looking forward to continuing to develop that partnership, the Pentagon has said. Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder made the remarks at a press conference in Washington on Tuesday. “India is a strategic partner, and we look forward to continuing to develop that partnership,”…
Chicago: Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday said he was shot at during his rally in Pennsylvania and a bullet pierced the upper part of his right ear. In his first statement issued on the social media platform Truth Social, 78-year-old Trump thanked the US Secret Service for saving his…
Washington: President Joe Biden and other major political leaders decried violence after the incident at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pennysylvania on Saturday night. Biden, speaking from Delaware, said there was “no place in America for this kind of violence.” “It’s sick. It’s sick. It’s one of the reasons we have to unite…
Pennysulvania: Former US president Donald Trump was rushed off stage on Saturday after a series of loud bangs that sounded like possible gunshots were heard at the start of a campaign rally here. As the bangs ran out, US Secret Service agents swarmed onto the podium, surrounded the Republican candidate and escorted him roughly off…
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Saturday acquitted jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the un-Islamic marriage case, the only case keeping the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party founder behind bars since August last year. On February 3 — days before the general elections on February 8 — an Islamabad court convicted…
Kathmandu: At least 65 people are believed to be missing after two buses were swept away by a landslide in Nepal and pushed into a swollen river on Friday, according to media reports. The two buses carrying 65 passengers went missing in the Trishuli River in the landslides at Simaltal area along the Narayanghat-Mugling road…
Washington: US President Joe Biden has said that he has “no good reason” to talk to Vladimir Putin at the moment unless the Russian leader changes his behaviour. The 81-year-old president made these remarks on Thursday at a highly-anticipated solo press conference at the end of the NATO Summit in Washington. “I have no good…
