India accelerated work in early 2021 and the port is expected to be declared operational no later than May 2021, said the US Congressional Research Services report

Beijing's growing economic might, military modernisation, and aggressive diplomatic efforts were already eroding America's competitive advantage and shifting the regional balance of power in the Indo-Pacific before the COVID-19 crisis began, said the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

The move is expected to come to the rescue of a large number of Indian IT professionals who were having a tough time during the previous Trump administration due to various policies and memorandums on non-immigrant work visas, in particular H-1B

Quad nations will announce financing agreements to support an increase in manufacturing capacity for coronavirus vaccines in India, something New Delhi has called for to counter China's widening vaccine diplomacy

The White House said the virtual meeting of the countries known as the Quad would show the importance Biden placed on the Indo-Pacific region and focus on ways to fight the coronavirus, cooperate on economic growth and the climate crisis

A year later, the UN agency is still struggling to keep on top of the evolving science of Covid-19, to persuade countries to abandon their nationalistic tendencies and help get vaccines where they're needed most

In January, the then President Donald Trump had extended the ban on issuing of new H-1B visas till March 31 arguing that the country is having a very high unemployment rate and the US cannot afford to have more foreign workers

Rahul says it is \"beautiful how the truth reveals itself\", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor says BJP may have realised now that the stadium was named after a home minister who banned their organisation (RSS)

The 3rd Test match between India and England will be played there. Players from both teams have been training at the newly built stadium

Up to 4 million Australians are expected to be inoculated by March, with Morrison among a small group receiving the first round of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Kerry, the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, said he intends to work \"very, very closely with\" with Indian leadership including Prime Minister Modi and External Minister S Jaishankar

Twitter had blocked Trump's account a few days after the violent uprising by his supporters at the US Capitol on January 6. Along with Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms had also banned Trump after the US Capitol incident

Indian tech industry body Nasscom hopes the new US administration will bring changes to regulatory policies hurting IT companies while working to find solutions to the STEM skills gap

NASSCOM said that Indian technology industry makes significant contributions to the US economy and workforce including local investments and job creation, workforce development and upskilling US employees

In the backdrop of farmers' protest, countries like India have a huge lesson to learn from the US. Socio-economic vulnerabilities of the people should be addressed expeditiously without leaving a chance for trouble makers to tap such uncertainties for their personal benefits

The Prime Minister also congratulated Kamala Harris on being sworn in as first lady, black, and South Asian US Vice President, saying he looked forward to interacting with her to make India-US relations more robust

Running into 10 pages, the document was recently declassified in part by US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien and now has been posted on the White House website

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The Department of Telecom (DoT) also said that the process for spectrum allocation for 4G services to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on pan-India basis, including Delhi and Mumbai, has been initiated and funds have been provisioned in FY2020-21

Billed as India's largest coastal defence exercise, it will involve all the 13 coastal states and Union Territories along with other maritime stakeholders, officials said