The U.S. ambassador to India apologized to the country on Wednesday for the vandalism of a Mahatma Gandhi statue in front of the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC, by violent rioters this week, the Times of India (TOI) reported on Thursday.
Both the Indian and Chinese militaries have sent “artillery guns and combat vehicles” to their rear bases along a disputed border area in Ladakh, India’s northernmost state, as the nearly month-long standoff between the two armies continues to escalate, Indian military sources told the Times of India on Sunday.
President Donald Trump proposed on Saturday hosting the G7 Summit in September and inviting additional countries, including Russia and Australia.
Satellite imagery shows China has recently deployed “extensive” amounts of “artillery and mechanized elements” to its side of a shared border with India in Ladakh, India’s northernmost state, bringing Indian troops on the border “within striking distance,” Indian government sources told the Indian Express on Thursday.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei and state-owned China Mobile are building two 5G stations to cover the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, the Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday.
In an address to Chinese military officers at the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Communist China’s rubber-stamp legislature, dictator Xi Jinping said it was important to “step up preparations for armed combat” against various threats, specifically mentioning “Taiwan independence forces.”
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said it supports the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to prevent coronavirus on Tuesday despite the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) suspending clinical trials of the drug over safety concerns, the Times of India (TOI) reported.
India’s government vows “there won’t be any compromises” in the country’s defense of its border with China as tensions along the shared boundary continue to escalate, sources in the Indian government told the Times of India (TOI) on Wednesday.
Police detained a pigeon in India on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for the Pakistani state after officials discovered a coded ring attached to its foot, according to local media reports.
The Boeing Company is set to lay off more than 12,000 Americans in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis while planning an expansion in India.
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Up to 5,000 Chinese troops are now massed along the disputed Ladakh border with India, and according to Indian officials, not all of them are staying on China’s side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
India “rushed troops” to its border with China in the Ladakh Valley hours after Beijing boasted that it had “bolstered” its military presence along the border on Monday, the Economic Times of India reported.
India backed calls this week for an independent investigation of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the World Health Organisation’s (W.H.O.) response at the World Health Assembly (W.H.A.) annual meeting this week, the Times of India reported on Monday.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) ordered fighter jets to conduct regular sorties over its border with China in the northern Ladakh region, the Times of India reported on Tuesday, after a scuffle between troops there.
Fortune 500 companies are rushing to extend work permits for thousands of H-1B visa workers as President Donald Trump and his deputies argue over visa curbs that would help Americans regain jobs lost in the coronavirus crash.
Police in Gujarat, India, arrested a journalist and charged him with sedition this week for publishing a story suggesting that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) officials were planning to oust the state’s Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, over his lackluster response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Minor injuries were reported on Saturday when about 150 Indian and Chinese troops engaged in a confrontation on the border between India’s Sikkim state and China. The Indian military said soldiers on both sides engaged in “aggressive behavior” that led to an exchange of punches and thrown rocks, but evidently not any gunfire.
According to a recent report, tech giant Apple is planning to move a significant amount of its iPhone production from China to India.
President Donald Trump will curb companies’ hiring of foreign visa workers during the next few weeks, according to a report in the pro-migration Wall Street Journal.
The Department of Homeland Security revealed Wednesday it will allow many Indian H-1B visa workers to return from vacations in their homeland to regain the Fortune 500 U.S. jobs now needed by U.S. graduates.
Authorities in the Indian capital of Delhi this week introduced a 70 percent tax on retail alcohol to help prevent large gatherings, as the government attempts to slowly ease lockdown restrictions imposed in response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday that India is “developing a land pool nearly double the size of Luxembourg to lure businesses moving out of China.”
An Indian-run outsourcing company used Congress’s H-1B visa worker program to systematically discriminate against American college graduates, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in New Jersey.
The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is tolerating, or engaging in, the violent and “particularly severe” persecution of Muslim and Christian minorities in India, a bipartisan U.S. watchdog group reported this week, echoing several other assessments.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has designated India as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for the first time since 2004, declaring that the government engages in or tolerates “particularly severe” violations of religious freedom.
Beijing’s embassy in New Delhi called India’s decision to stop using faulty Chinese-made coronavirus test kits an act of “prejudice” and “unfair” on Tuesday, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported this week.
NEW DELHI — Irrfan Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India’s best-known exports to Hollywood, has died. He was 54.
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday called for feasibility studies on a program called One Nation, One Ration Card that would give impoverished residents and migrants a single card to obtain food and other welfare benefits during the coronavirus emergency.
President Donald Trump has exempted the Fortune 500’s international labor supply from his order for a temporary immigration shutdown.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday compared the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Nazi Germany, accusing it of “deliberate and violent targeting of Muslims” to distract public anger from Modi’s coronavirus policies.
India is supplying about 85 million hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets and roughly 500 million paracetamol tablets to 108 countries, a top Indian government official told Hindustan Times on Thursday.
Executives with the George W. Bush Presidential Center say more globalization of the American economy is the answer to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, not the problem.
Indian police brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the leader of a Muslim group for organizing a gathering last month that caused a surge in Wuhan coronavirus infections, Reuters reported on Thursday.
he Economic Times of India reported on Thursday that some 50,000 of the 170,000 virus protection kits shipped by China on April 5 were “found unusable because they failed safety checks.” Two smaller consignments with a total of 40,000 kits were found completely unusable.
India’s External Affairs Ministry condemned the USCIRF after it shared reports of hospitals segregating coronavirus patients by religion.
The coronavirus epidemic may block many foreign graduates from getting the college-level jobs needed by U.S. graduates this year, according to an article in QZ.com.
An Indian police officer from the Punjab region had his hand cut off with a sword and six others were injured at a vegetable market on Sunday after Sikh extremists attacked after being asked to provide travel passes.
The United States is suffering a shortage of crucial drugs to help fight the coronavirus in American patients because they are predominately imported from China and India.
Politicians can win massive support from millions of U.S. graduates by just curbing the inflow of foreign visa workers into the good jobs that graduates need to pay their college debts, says Charlie Kirk, the influential founder of Turning Point USA.
