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The 58-year-old immigrated to the US from India when she was seven

Washington: New Omicron subvariants have led to increasing Covid-19 cases in the US, with BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounting for over 35 per cent of the new infections this week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). BQ.1.1 made up 18.8 per cent of circulating variants, and BQ.1 was estimated to make up […]

The external affairs minister made the comments after holding wide-ranging talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov in Moscow.

Washington: The United States witnessed an unprecedented early voting for the midterms on Tuesday as 41 million voters turned up to cast their vote, a million more than the 2018 midterms, as both President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump fired up the enthusiasm of the electorate to exercise their franchise in one of […]

Like many small villages, Hogewey has its own town square, supermarket, salons, theaters, pubs, and cafes.

New York: Pavithra Prabhakar, an Indian-American professor of computer science at the Kansas State University, has received an Amazon Research Award to design a tool that minimises negative user experiences. Prabhakar, who is the Peggy and Gary Edwards chair in engineering, was one of 74 recipients of the awards from Amazon, which also includes an […]

North Korea’s military said Monday its recent barrage of missile tests were practices to “mercilessly” strike key South Korean and U.S. targets

The badminton competition is organised as part of the first edition of the Saudi games, the largest national sports event of its kind on Friday at King Fahd Stadium in Riyad

Elon Musk on Sunday confirmed that the new Twitter Blue subscription service with verification for $8 will be available in India in less than a month.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologised for massive layoffs at the micro-blogging platform after its new owner Elon Musk began reducing its workforce

Cotabato: A homemade bomb went off in a bus and killed a passenger and wounded 10 others in a southern Philippine city on Sunday in an attack authorities suspect may be part of an extortion attempt, officials said. The bus with an unspecified number of passengers was approaching a transport terminal in Tacurong city in […]

New York: There are eight Indian-Americans running for the House of Representatives in the midterm elections — four of them sitting Democratic Party members, and three Republicans and a Democrat aspiring to join them in the “Samosa Caucus”. All the four Representatives who gave themselves the nickname “Samosa Caucus” stand a strong chance of being […]

Colombo: The Sri Lankan Navy arrested 15 Indian fishermen who were allegedly poaching in the northern waters of the Island nation and seized two trawlers on Saturday evening. The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) said that the arrests were made during “a special operation in seas north of Talaimannar to chase away Indian poaching trawlers from […]

New York: India at United Nations voted in favour of Russia’s draft resolution on “Combating glorification of Nazism.” Amid the spirited debate, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly approved a draft resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism by a recorded vote of 105 in favour to 52 against, with 15 abstentions. […]

North Korea added to its recent barrage of weapons demonstrations by launching four ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday

The campaign, conducted by the Telangana NRI forum in collaboration with the Indian Embassy in Riyadh at King Fahd Medical Complex (KFMC) on Friday, saw NRIs largely from the Telugu States, taking part.

In the video, American soldiers were seen playing the Indian National Anthem on their trumpets for the Indian counterparts as part of their final day exercise.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met visiting US National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan in Kiev to discuss further American support for the war-torn nation.

Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the social platform.

Taking to Twitter, Modi said: "Mazel Tov my friend @netanyahu for your electoral success. I look forward to continuing our joint efforts to deepen the India-Israel strategic partnership."

As the final thousands of votes were being tallied Thursday evening, Prime Minister Yair Lapid called opposition leader Netanyahu to concede the race and congratulate him on his election victory, The Times of Israel reported.

But granting employment authorisation to all spouses of H-1B visa holders would encourage more skilled migrants, including Indians, to choose the US over Canada, the study by National Foundation for American Policy revealed.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won this week’s Israeli election, final results showed Thursday

MEIL will build EPC-2 (open art units, utilities and offsites, plant buildings) and EPC-3 (captive power plants) at a cost of $790 million (about Rs 6,400 crore) using advanced technology in Mongolia.