INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (23) met the Indian-born chief executive officer (CEO) of software giant Adobe Shantanu Narayen in Washington DC and discussed with him the California-based company’s collaboration and future investment plans in India. The talks between Modi and Narayen also threw light on India’s flagship…
THE north-eastern Indian state of Assam is in the headlines again for wrong reasons. On Thursday (23), clashes broke out in Sipajhar area of the state’s Darrang district after thousands of people protested against the state government’s ongoing eviction drive against “illegal encroachers”, leaving at least two persons dead and…
RAKESH Tikait, the farmers’ leader and national spokesperson of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Indian farmers’ union) who has been leading a peasants’ protest against the Narendra Modi government over its new agricultural laws, on Friday (24) urged US president Joe Biden to focus on their concern while meeting the Indian…
CHINESE daily Global Times on Friday (24) slammed the Quad summit which was due to be held in Washington DC, the US, the same day citing Chinese analysts who warned that if members like India, Japan and Australia “went too far in following the US strategy of containing China, they…
AUSTRALIAN trade minister Dan Tehan will reach India next week to explore possibilities of finalising an early harvest trade pace to be followed by a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement (CECA) in line with the overall policy approach by the two countries to ramp up their economic ties. Tehan’s will also…
SEPTEMBER 24 remains one of the golden dates of Indian cricket as it was on this day that the country had won its only world title in the T2o format, in South Africa in 2007. Fourteen years ago, a bunch of young cricketers led by former India captain Mahendra Singh…
IN a sensational flow of events, three gangsters were on Friday (24) killed in a shootout inside a courtroom in Delhi that has left several injured and raised questions about the security arrangements in a heavily guarded zone. Videos of the incident went viral on social media in which gunshots…
WHILE Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s seventh visit to the US that kicked off on Thursday (23) saw enthusiastic Indian-Americans braving the sun to greet the former at the airport, there were also dissenting voices as dozens gathered at the Lafayette Square in front of the White House later in…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (23) met US vice president Kamala Harris at the White House and discussed a range of key issues. Besides, he also presented the Democratic leader, who is of Indian-origin, a bunch of unique gifts from his country. One of Modi’s gifts to Harris,…
IN one of the most highly anticipated bilateral engagements of this year, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will meet US president Joe Biden at the White House on Friday (24). This will be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders after Biden took over as the president eight months…