Paris/New Delhi, Feb 12 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with US Vice President JD Vance and his Indian-origin wife Usha Vance in Paris, ahead of meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington this week. PM Modi posted on X that he was delighted to celebrate the birthday of JD Vance and Usha Vance’s…
Moscow, Feb 12 (UNI) U.S. citizen Marc Fogel, who was convicted in Russia for drug smuggling and possession, has been released to the United States, local media reported on Wednesday. “The information regarding his release is accurate. However, we do not know the route he is being transported on,” Fogel’s lawyer, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, told RIA…
Mumbai/New Delhi, Feb 11 (UNI) India’s benchmark indices on Tuesday nosedived as the BSE Sensex fell over 1,018 points on wide-spread selling mainly due to worries over escalating tariff war after Trump imposed 25 percent import tariff on Steel and aluminium that would impact India’s business prospects. In these five trading sessions, over 18 lakh…
Istanbul, Feb 10 (UNI) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said here Sunday that no one has the power to displace Palestinians from their homeland. “No one has the power to expel Gazans from their ancient and eternal homeland. Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem all belong to the Palestinians,” Erdogan told a press conference…
Cairo, Feb 10 (UNI) Egypt condemned on Sunday recent remarks on Gaza by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to U.S. media, describing them as deliberate “misinformation” that contradicts the efforts Egypt has been making. In an interview with Fox News aired on Saturday, Netanyahu said the reason why Gaza is described the “biggest open-air prison…
Rio De Janeiro, Feb 7 (UNI) Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said that he would leave BRICS and the World Health Organization (WHO) if he comes back into power in the country. The statement comes weeks after US President Donald Trump and Argentinian President Javier Milei, allegedly Bolsonaro’s main foreign allies, decided to leave…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (UNI) Opposition MPs of both the houses of Parliament on Thursday held a protest in the Parliament premises over the issue of deportation of alleged illegal Indian immigrants from the United States. Opposition members including Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge,…
Doha, Feb 6 (UNI) Qatar is ready to become a mediator between the United States and Iran to resolve differences between the two countries over the Iranian nuclear program, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman and adviser to the Qatari prime minister Majed Al-Ansari said. “And we had been even during the first Trump administration working with…
Moscow, Feb 6 (UNI) At least 40,000 US government employees have agreed to resign with an eight-month severance package, the CNN broadcaster reported on Thursday, citing a government official familiar with the matter. In late January, the NBC News broadcaster reported that US President Donald Trump’s administration offered an eight-month severance package to government employees…
Amritsar/New Delhi, Feb 5 (UNI) A US C-17 military plane carrying Indians deported from the US landed in Amritsar today. Of the 205 Indian nationals deported by the US, 104 arrived at Amritsar Airport onboard the US military aircraft, reports said. The deportees were undergoing verification by the government officials. The deportation of the undocumented…
