Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi this week and the delegation will be led by Premier Li Qiang, the foreign ministry announced here on Monday. At the invitation of the government of the Republic of India, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang will attend the 18th G20…
Washington: US President Joe Biden has said that he is looking forward to his trip to India this week but is disappointed that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 summit in New Delhi. Biden will travel to India on September 7 to participate in the G20 Summit and will have a bilateral…
Washington: Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy said on Sunday that while he expects to become the party’s nominee for the November 2024 US elections, but will vote for Donald Trump if the former president secures the nomination. Appearing on a Sunday talk show, the 38-year-old Indian American entrepreneur also expressed his intention to pardon Trump, who…
Washington: The United States will not sell high-end sophisticated chips to the Chinese military, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Sunday. “We are trying to choke their military capacity. So, if they feel that, that means our strategy’s working. Certainly, on my watch, we are not going to sell the most sophisticated American chip to China…
Moscow: To woo tourists from across the world, the Moscow City Tourism Committee is taking several measures and to address payment-related issues the Russian government is planning to come out with a virtual ‘Foreign Tourist Card’, that will enable cashless payments for various services. During the Covid pandemic the tourist flow to Moscow had dropped significantly….
United Nations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not attend the annual UN General Assembly session later this month and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will address the high-level week, according to the latest provisional list of speakers issued by the UN. The high-level General Debate of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly will begin…
Washington: US President Joe Biden will travel to India next week to participate in the G20 Summit and will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 on the sidelines of the historic meeting, the White House has announced. India, President of the G20, will host global leaders for the Summit…
Colombo: The Indian Naval Ship (INS) ‘Delhi’ arrived at the port of Colombo on a three-day formal visit on Friday to promote cooperation and goodwill between the two navies, the Sri Lankan Navy said. The 163.2 metre-long Destroyer was welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in compliance with naval tradition. Manned by a crew of 450,…
Singapore: Tharman Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist, registered a landslide victory in Singapore’s presidential election on Friday, winning over 70 per cent of votes in the country’s first contested presidential polls since 2011. The 66-year-old former senior minister bagged 70.4 per cent (1,746,427 votes) of the 2.48 million votes cast, while his Chinese-origin rivals Ng Kok…
London: Claire Coutinho, a close aide of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, got a big promotion as his new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary in a mini reshuffle on Thursday. Coutinho, 38, becomes the second Goan-origin minister after Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Sunak Cabinet and has a tough brief ahead of her as…
