IANS- India has said that UN member countries should send more all-women units to peacekeeping operations instead of mixed units, as a sure means to increase female participation. While the UN has set ambitious targets for increasing the number of women peacekeepers, the policy framework for this was being “diluted” to accommodate those countries that […]
IANS- Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday expressed regret over the worst bloodbath committed by the British Army during the colonial period, terming it as a “shameful scar” on British Indian history. “The tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh of 1919 is a shameful scar on […]
IANS- Two Twitter bots — one in support of and one in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi — made a massive attempt to boost traffic on the platform in India in February as the world’s largest democracy prepared for the General Elections, a new report has found. The US-based Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research […]
indica News Bureau- The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the Indian IT industry’s apex body announced the appointment of Keshav Murugesh, Group CEO of WNS Global Services as its Chairman for 2019-20. Murugesh succeeded Wipro board member and Chief Strategy Officer Rishad Premji, who was the apex body’s Chairman for fiscal 2018-19. […]
Arul Lois(IANS)- US President Donald Trump has re-nominated an Indian American prosecutor Diane Gujarati to be a federal judge. The White House announced on Monday that Trump was again sending her nomination to the Senate for confirmation as a judge of the federal court for Eastern New York that has jurisdiction over parts of New […]
IANS- US President Donald Trump’s administration is ratcheting up its hardline policies in two areas where India’s interests run counter to Washington’s – the latest is in Iran, where America has declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. Three weeks before the waiver given to India to buy Iranian oil expires, […]
IANS- Declaring its aim to make India the third largest economy in the world by 2030, the BJP on Monday promised to promote investment-driven growth to build a “New India” and make it a $10 trillion economy by 2032. “We aspire to make India the third largest economy in the world by 2030. This implies […]
IANS- Kirstjen Nielsen, the head of the US Homeland Security has quit President Donald Trump’s cabinet amid an unprecedented upheaval at the highest echelons of the government and an immigration crisis at the country’s southern border. Trump announced the resignation of Nielsen as the Secretary of Homeland Security on Sunday on Twitter after several months […]
Ritu Jha- The Indian-American community reacted with pleasure and relief to news that the Department of Homeland Security would not rescind employment authorization for those on dependent H-4 visas. As Dibyendu Roy, whose wife has an H-4 visa, put it, “It’s good to see that DHS is finally showing some spine.” “It’s good to see […]
IANS- India’s claim that one of its pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle in February “appears to be wrong” as US personnel counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing, a US news publication has reported citing military officials. Foreign Policy publication said in a report that two senior US […]
