United States of America
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US: Two black representatives demanding stricter gun control expelled from house in Tennessee
It’s shocking what is happening in the oldest democracy, the USA. Some days back, three nine-year-old children and three adults were killed when a transgender woman with a gun went spraying bullets…
- World
China sanctions US organisations for hosting Taiwan President during stopover
Beijing: China on Friday slapped sanctions on two American organisations that hosted Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen during her visit to the US and her meeting with the House Speaker, a day after…
- India
India now has third highest number of billionaires in the world
New Delhi: India, which has the third-most billionaires, with 169, had a more mixed year. Indian billionaires as a group – worth $675 billion – are $75 billion poorer than in 2022,…
- World
US Vice President Kamala Harris visits her Indian grandfather’s house in Zambia
Washington: US Vice President Kamala Harris remembered her maternal grandfather P V Gopalan and visited his family house in Zambia’s capital Lusaka where he lived as an Indian Foreign Service official in…
- Opinions
School shootings: Bane of United States of America
The United States of America must make an all-out effort to root out school shootings which are really giving it a bad name globally. In the last two decades, the number of…
- World
US woman left AirPods on plane; tracked at airport worker’s home
San Francisco: A woman in the US has tracked down her lost Apple AirPods to an airport worker’s home two weeks after she left them on a plane, a media report said.…
- World
US drone crashes into Black Sea after collision with Russian fighter jet
A US drone has crashed into the Black Sea following a collision with a Russian fighter jet, heightening tensions between the two countries amid the ongoing Ukraine conflict. According to the US…
- World
‘Deceived’ US city scraps agreement with Nithyananda’s ‘Kailasa’
New York: Having been duped, a US city has scrapped a sister-city agreement with the fictional nation of “Kailasa” that the fugitive godman Nithyananda’s outfit claimed was recognition by Washington. “Based on…
- World
USA: 31-yr-old woman who birthed 13-yr-old’s baby to not be jailed
A 31-year-old woman from the US state of Colorado who confessed to having sexual relations with a 13-year-old last year will not go to jail. The Fountain Police Department charged Andrea Serrano…
- India
What is TU 160? The bomber India wants, Russia owns and US is likely to have
In December 2022, a Russian military bomber engineer drove to USA’s southwest border and asked for asylum. In exchange, he said he would provide the US government with Russian military secrets. This…
- World
Ex-cops plead not guilty over African-American man’s death
Washington: Five former police officers in Memphis, who have been charged with murder over the death of African-American man Tyre Nichols, have pleaded not guilty in their first court appearance. The 29-year-old…
- World
Taliban’s ban on university education for women receives USA’s ire
United States of America’s Secretary of state Antony Blinken condemned the Taliban after the latter imposed a statewide ban on women attending universities in Afghanistan on Tuesday. “Until the Taliban respect the…
- Technology
Top Twitter execs interfered with US election before banning Trump: Musk files
San Francisco: Elon Musk on Saturday revealed the third season of ‘Twitter Files,’ which claimed that top Twitter executives suppressed and censored former US President Donald Trump in the days before the…
- India
‘High demand’: US on 3-year wait time for issuance of visas to Indians
New Delhi: The US is undertaking “tremendous efforts” to solve the problem of long wait time in issuance of visas in India, US Charge d’Affaires Ambassador Elizabeth Jones said on Friday, acknowledging…
