IANS- China, the US and India together accounted for nearly 70 percent of the rise in energy demand, even as such demand worldwide grew by 2.3 percent last year, at its fastest pace this decade, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday. This exceptional rise in energy demand was driven by a robust global […]
indica News Bureau- An Indian doctor from Andhra Pradesh completing her residency in Tennessee, United States was among the 157 killed in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash on Sunday, March 10. Dr. Manisha Nukavarapu, a second-year resident physician at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine, was flying to Kenya to visit relatives […]
Arul Louis- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following the situation in the subcontinent where the Indian Air Force struck a terrorist base inside Pakistan territory and is calling for “maximum restraint” by both countries, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. Guterres is on his way back to New York from Geneva and Dujarric […]
Arul Louis(IANS)- China was railroaded by the strong international revulsion against terrorism to go along with the Security Council press statement condemning the Jaish-e-Mohammad’s (J-e-M) suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district that killed 40 Indian security personnel. While Beijing initially opposed the statement adopted unanimously by the Council on Thursday, following the […]
Arul Louis(IANS)- There may be a golden lining for India in the dark clouds of the tariff war waged by US President Donald Trump against China, and it is likely to increase its exports by as much as $11 billion if the proposed tariffs go into effect next month, according to the UN’s trade […]
IANS – After Tesla reported $139 million profit for the fourth quarter of 2018, generating a record $7.2 billion in revenue, its Founder and CEO Elon Musk dropped a bomb, saying the company’s Indian-origin Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja will be retiring. In an earnings call with analysts late Wednesday, Musk said that Ahuja’s […]
Arul Louis(IANS) – Three international organizations have endorsed India’s growth story recognizing it as the world’s fastest growing major economy for this and the next three years and in two reports raised some of their earlier projections. On Monday, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report released in Davos estimated India’s gross domestic product growth […]
indica News Bureau – Indian American Congressman Ro Khanna has supported President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out troops from war-ravaged Afghanistan – a latest in series of abrupt changes to US military policy. “I support a responsible withdrawal of American military forces in Afghanistan. If we hope to end the security challenge posed […]
Justice Markandey Katju theprint.in has published Kumar Ketkar’s article ‘In Modi era intellectuals confess they are confused. My response is, one, almost all Indian ‘intellectuals,’ including professors in universities, mediapersons, writers, etc are pseudo-intellectuals who are puffed up with arrogance and bookish, sterile knowledge, which is no knowledge at all. No wonder they are confused. Two, there is no confusion […]
Justice Markandey Katju India and Pakistan have been one country since Mughal times, and we share the same culture. When I meet Pakistanis I feel no different from them. We look like each other, we speak the same language, Hindustani, we have the same food habits, the common love for Urdu literature, etc. Indians and […]
