The United States has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to rule on its assertion that India’s restrictions on imports of US poultry meat and chicken eggs violates its WTO obligations. The US request to WTO to set up a dispute settlement panel was filed Monday after consultations with India on April 16-17, the first [...]
With India threatening to drag the US to the WTO against its discriminatory visa fee hike,a senior state department official has said professional Indians are welcome in America. “We understand that the demand (for professional visas) is even greater. We’re working through those issues. But we continue to fully support the admission of qualified Indians [...]
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore has found yet another permanent roosting perch in Europe. A centre dedicated to the life and works of Tagore, described in Britain as India’s ‘Robert Burns and the Bengali Shakespeare’, has been opened in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies centre (ScoTs) will promote Indian culture, education, philosophy, art [...]
The torch for the 2012 London Games was lit at Athens on Thursday at the site of the ancient Olympics. In front of the ruins of the ancient Temple of Hera, an actress playing the role of a high priestesses lit the Olympic flame by the rays of the sun in a parabolic mirror. Dignitaries [...]
Shocking Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lawmakers with its factual errors, a Pashto textbook for Class 5 students says the 9/11 terror attack happened in 2011 and the general elections will be held in the country in February 2008. Lawmakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly were left stunned when an opposition member pointed out errors in the book, [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday lauded the “incredible contribution” of Indian Americans in her country and said the people to people relationship was at the heart of the ties between the two countries. Clinton, who came to Kolkata from Dhaka Sunday, said in 2011, 35 percent of all L1 work visas in the [...]
India and Bangladesh will start work next week to build a bridge over river Feni in Tripura for access to Bangladesh’s Chittagong sea port to ferry goods and heavy machinery for northeast India, a minister said here Saturday. “Engineers of India and Bangladesh will carry out field level technical surveys from May 10 before starting [...]
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was on Saturday elected chairman of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a year. Mukherjee will hold the chair till the conclusion of the next board of governors’ meeting, which is scheduled to be held in New Delhi May 2-5 next year. “I deem it [...]
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is currently the US Secretary of State . She is Wife of former US President Bill Clinton served as United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. She was one of the major Competitor to Barack Obama during Presidential Polls. She was born as Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947 at Illinois. Her Father was a small [...]
India will be juggling its ties with Iran and the US as it gears up to hold talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday even as an Iranian trade delegation will be here to find ways to do business with Indian companies. The Iranian nuclear issue and sanctions imposed by the US and the [...]
