By Biman Mukherji US President Donald Trump’s announcement of an up to fifty-fold increase in the cost of skilled worker permits under the H-1B visa programme has rattled India’s tech industry, which has provided highly qualified manpower and services to American enterprises for decades. On Friday, Washington announced that the H-1B fee would be raised […]
Read MoreIndia’s Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to respond to a plea seeking an independent investigation into the Air India plane crash on June 12 that killed 260 people. The top court was responding to a public interest litigation filed by NGO Safety Matters Foundation, marking its first examination of the probe being carried […]
Read MoreIndia’s sugar exports are likely to fall below 800,000 tonnes this season, missing the one million-tonne quota, as rising Brazilian supplies push global prices lower and undercut Indian shipments, trade and government officials said. In January, India, the world’s biggest sugar producer, allowed exports of one million tonnes in the current season through 30 September […]
Read MoreAn increase in cases of a rare but fatal form of encephalitis has put authorities in India’s southern state of Kerala on alert, forcing them to step up testing to address what they say is a serious public health challenge. Kerala has reported around 69 cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) since the beginning of […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI: More than 100 Indian jewelers traveled to Jeddah this week to participate in the inaugural Saudi Arabia Jewelry Exposition (SAJEX), as the industry looks to diversify export markets in response to US President Donald Trump’s hefty tariffs on goods from India. As part of his ongoing global trade war, Trump doubled the total […]
Read MoreBy Maria Siow India is keen on tariff talks with the United States, but it is expected to stand its ground even as their bilateral relations sour on issues ranging from trade to foreign policy. In the face of the 50 per cent tariff imposed on Indian goods, Delhi is neither “desperate nor cornered”, according […]
Read MoreRIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council and India discussed deepening cooperation in various fields during the two-day India-GCC political dialogue that concluded in Riyadh on Monday. Arun Kumar Chatterjee, secretary (CPV&OIA) at India’s Ministry of External Affairs, visited Riyadh on Sept. 7-8 for the India-GCC Political Dialogue, and held wide-ranging discussions with his counterpart, Dr. Abdulaziz […]
Read MoreIndia will send teams to monitor a general election in war-torn Myanmar that is scheduled to start in December, Myanmar state media said on Monday, as New Delhi signals support for a vote that has already been derided by critics as a sham. Myanmar’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI: India and Russia are exploring ways to deepen their cooperation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China. Modi and Putin were both in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s leaders’ summit, where they underscored their friendly ties by […]
Read MoreBy Biman Mukherji India’s stronger-than-expected economic growth of 7.8 per cent in the April–June quarter has been hailed by leaders as a resounding retort to US President Donald Trump’s claim that the country’s economy is “dead”, even as experts warn that retaliatory tariffs from Washington could weigh on the outlook. Bilateral ties have plummeted recently […]
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