Global Indian News
In an important step to defuse the festering three-month crisis in the Himalayan state, the Nepali government has agreed to accept some of key demands of Madhesis, including proportional representation and delimitation of constituencies.
Read More
Signalling a strategic shift, India agreed to reopen talks with the US on a pact to allow each other access to their military bases and ports. Earlier, India was ambivalent about …
Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on his second visit during the current year to Russia for the annual Summit with President Putin on 24th Dec, 2015. He earlier toured Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan in Russia on 8-10th July for the SCO and BRICS Summits.
Read More
The H-1B visa issue continues to haunt the Indian tech companies, with US President Barack Obama on December 18 signing into law a USD 1.8 trillion spending package which, among other things, introduces a hefty USD 4,000 fee for certain categories of H-1B visa and USD 4,500 for L1 visa.
Read More
In a major move that could bolster the investor sentiment in the developed countries, the US Federal Reserve hiked the benchmark short-term interest rates by 0.25 percent. This has been done for the first time in over seven years after the 2008 financial crisis had forced the US Central Bank to make the interest rates at zero to ease the liquidity crunch.
Read More
Amid intelligence reports about a potential threat to India from the radical Islamic State, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has signalled India’s willingness to participate in an anti-IS offensive, but only under the UN flag.
Read More
It’s a hymn to India, blending commerce, technology, innovation and ingenuity. Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai has unveiled an ambitious transformative agenda for one of the world’s fastest growing economies and the laboratory of new ideas.
Read More
No war, let’s talk to end terror and build peaceful relations to advance stability and prosperity in the region. This is India’s message to Pakistan days after resuming full-spectrum dialogue with its difficult neighbour as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj unveiled their reasoning behind their latest peace initiative.
Read More
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in India recently to hold the 9th annual India-Japan summit-level talks. It was his second summit engagement with India’s Prime Minister Narenda Modi.
Read More
Containment anxieties seem to have gripped Beijing in the aftermath of the India-Japan joint position against “unilateral actions” in South China Sea during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s just-concluded visit to India.
Read More