High-level officials to push India-US agenda set by Modi, Biden
By Arul Louis
New York, Oct 9 (IANS) High-level officials will be working to move forward the agenda for cooperation set at last month's meeting...
US, Taliban officials to hold talks in Doha over weekend
Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) A US delegation will travel to Doha over the weekend to meet senior Afghan Taliban representatives, the State Department has...
Global Covid-19 caseload tops 237.2 mn
Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) The global coronavirus caseload has topped 237.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.84 million and vaccinations...
Abdulrazak Gurnah conferred Nobel Prize for Literature 2021
London, (IANS) Tanzania-born UK-based post-colonialist novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose oeuvre mainly deals with the physical and mental disruptions faced by refugees, was on Thursday...
Senate Republicans offer short-term debt-limit extension
Washington, (IANS) US Senate Republicans have proposed extending the federal government's debt limit into December in order to avert a looming debt default, local...
Russia invites Taliban for talks in Moscow
New Delhi, (IANS) Russia has invited representatives of the Taliban to meet in Moscow as part of the efforts to open diplomatic channels with...
Multiple people injured in high school shooting in Texas
Houston, Oct 6 (IANS) Multiple people were injured on Wednesday morning in a high school shooting in Arlington, south central US state of Texas,...
Biden, Xi to abide by Taiwan pact
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) US President Joe Biden said he and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed to abide by the "Taiwan...
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer major global outage
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger went down for millions of users, including in India, on Monday evening, as they...
Pakistan’s latest headache – rising unemployment: Why has CPEC failed to generate mass scale...
By Mahua Venkatesh
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS): The recent unemployment data in Pakistan will haunt Prime Minister Imran Khan. Data shared by the Pakistan...
