Washington: Two days after a Taliban-appointed Afghanistan minister reiterated that ’men and women are not equal’ based on Sharia, the White House has said, the Taliban needs to meet its commitments to get legitimacy from the international community. “We’ve not recognised them as a governing power in Afghanistan. They want that. They want legitimacy. Then […]
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has ruled out having an international-aided independent probe into the 2019 Easter bombings by a local Islamist extremist group as he slammed the Western media for its double standards. Nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carried out a […]
Vows to engage constructively Toronto: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said Canada was going through an “extremely challenging time” with India but asserted that Ottawa will continue to have “constructive relations” with New Delhi, amid the diplomatic row between the two countries over the killing of a Khalistani separatist. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, […]
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government will stop emergency purchases of medicine and will enter into government-to-government contracts with India and Bangladesh to curb alleged corruption in the procurement of drugs, Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said on Tuesday. Sri Lanka’s health sector trade unions have been running a campaign against alleged large-scale corruption in medicine imports […]
Tehran: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or commuted the sentences of over 2000 Iranian prisoners on the eve of the birthday anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Ayatollah Khamenei on Monday agreed to a request by Iran’s Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei to pardon or reduce the sentences of 2,284 inmates […]
Washington: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and the Indian-American community have urged the Indian government to open a consulate in the second-largest US city and the entertainment capital of the world. Currently, there are five Indian consulates in the US in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston and Atlanta. During the state visit of Prime […]
Washington: The India-US relationship is at an all-time high and the two nations have moved to a position where they see each other as very desirable, optimal and comfortable partners, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, stressing that like the Chandrayaan, bilateral ties will go to the moon and maybe even beyond. Jaishankar made […]
Washington: California-based Joby Aerospace on Monday announced the delivery of their “air taxi” — an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—to the United States Air Force. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has an agreement with the Air Force’s AFWERX program to test how such vehicles could fit into the country’s air space. AFWERX […]
London: The Indian High Commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, who was on a visit to Scotland, was stopped by a group of pro-Khalistan activists from entering a gurudwara in Glasgow on Friday, sources said on Saturday. The Indian envoy did not enter the gurudwara, turned around and headed to his next engagement. While the […]
Washington: Tesla has been sued by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for allegedly violating federal law by tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees and by subjecting some of these workers to retaliation for opposing the harassment. According to the EEOC’s suit, since at least 2015 to the present, Black […]