Washington, December 21 (IANS) The United States has tightened scrutiny of non-immigrant visa holders, triggering delays in visa interviews, restricting where applicants can seek visa stamping and expanding soc
Washington, December 18, (IANS) India–United States relations in 2025 have been “one of the most complicated” phases in decades, with ties hitting “almost rock bottom” and the relationship currently v
New Delhi, December 14 (IANS) It becomes impossible to ignore -- when a centuries-old Deepam lighting ritual in Tamil Nadu is projected as a threat to communal harmony, while political attempts to resurrect the
New Delhi, December 14 (IANS) The India-Russia summit for which Vladimir Putin made his first visit to India since the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia military conflict, went beyond the traditional focus on long
New Delhi, December 9 (IANS) Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that a group of small, self-serving, unelected politicians have seized the levers of state, who are using the court to remove
New Delhi, December 7 (IANS) On Mahaparinirvan Diwas -- when the nation pauses to honour Bharat Ratna Babasaheb Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the principal architect of India's Constitution -- a different spectacle unfolde
New Delhi, December 7 (IANS) Addressing the 60th Annual Conference of DGPs at Raipur on its concluding day on November 30, Prime Minister Modi called upon the Police chiefs from across the country to enhance
New Delhi, December 6 (IANS) August 5, 2024, will be remembered as a historic turning point in Bangladesh’s political journey. The fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government marked the end of an er
Moscow/New Delhi, December 4 (IANS) Hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin's arrival in India, a throwback image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his visit to Moscow with late Prime Minister Atal Bih
New Delhi, November 30 (IANS) Every time we think Pakistan has hit rock bottom, events unfold that prove there is no such thing as the lowest point for a nation that keeps discovering new depths. The world has
New Delhi, November 30 (IANS)The judgment of the five-member Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, presided over by the then Chief Justice Gavai, was delivered on November 20, on Governor’s and President
New Delhi, November 25 (IANS) The Taj Palace’s dome silhouetted against a night sky shrouded in flames and smoke became one of the defining visuals of that November night, 17 years ago, which marked a new cha
New Delhi, November 23 (IANS) A few days ago, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah remarked that an impression was being created across the country that all Kashmiris were somehow responsible for what
New Delhi, November 23 (IANS) A democratic order is the best form of governance because it promotes transparency, that makes it possible to fix accountability. Accountability is necessary to run a corruption-fr
New Delhi, November 20 (IANS) India is the second-largest fish producing country and one of the largest shrimp producers in the world, with fish production more than doubling from 96 lakh tonnes in 2013–14 to
New Delhi, November 16 (IANS) For decades, a convenient myth has floated around Kashmir's troubled history that terrorism in the Valley is a blue-collar phenomenon driven by poverty, lack of education, and expl
New Delhi, November 16 (IANS) There is a paradigm shift in what brings success- the need to know and know quickly is the key factor dominating professional and personal domains. This is because knowledge-based
Washington, November 15 (IANS) A leading immigration expert in Washington has termed Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s proposed bill to end H-1B visas as “one of the most efficient ways to h
New Delhi, November 14 (IANS) On the eve of the counting of votes in the Bihar Assembly elections, large posters outside the headquarters of Janata Dal (United) carried the message “Tiger abhi zinda hai (Tige
Islamabad, November 13 (IANS): When waves of youth-led unrest swept across South Asia after Sri Lanka’s uprising in 2022, analysts began to ask which country would be next. While Bangladesh followed the suit