President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered federal agencies to look at tightening a temporary visa programme used to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the United States, as he tries to carry out his campaign pledges to put “America First.” Trump signed an executive order on enforcing and reviewing the H-1B visa, popular in the technology industry, on a visit to the headquarters of Snap-On Inc <SNA.N>, a tool manufacturer in […]

With the nation still in shock from the killing of an Indian engineer in the US last week, another Indian-origin businessman has been shot dead outside his home in South Carolina, media reports said. On Thursday night, Harnish Patel had closed his shop at 11.24 p.m. and barely ten minutes later he was shot dead outside his house in Lancaster, a media report said. Patel’s death comes two days after […]

Amid the Trump Administration’s move to curb H1B visas that will impact India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pressed the US to have a “balanced and farsighted perspective” on the movement of skilled professionals. He made the comment while receiving a 26-member bi-partisan US Congressional delegation here. Welcoming the Congressional Representatives to India, he said their visit augurs a good start to bilateral exchanges following the change in the US […]

Hillary Clinton trolled US president Donald Trump after a federal appeals court rejected his bid to reinstate a temporary ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations, the media reported. Her tweet simply read, “3-0”, a reference to the unanimous decision by the three-judge panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, the USA Today reported. Clinton was not the only critic celebrating the decision, politicians, […]

The United States has issued a stern warming to North Korea against any use of nuclear weapons. Reiterating Washington’s security commitment to Seoul, Defence Secretary James Mattis today vowed effective and overwhelming response to any use of nuclear weapons by Pyongyang. “America’s commitments to defending our allies and to upholding our extended deterrence guarantees remain ironclad: any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any […]

China on Monday said admission of non-NPT signatories in NSG cannot be a “farewell gift” for countries to give to each other, a day after the outgoing Obama administration asserted that Beijing was an “outlier”+ in the efforts to make India a member of the elite nuclear club+ . “Regarding India’s application to the (NSG), regarding non-NPT countries admission to the NSG, we have made our position clear before so I […]

Nobody knows for certain who will win on Nov. 8 – but one man is pretty sure: Professor Allan Lichtman, who’s correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984. When we sat down in May, he explained how he comes to a decision. Lichtman’s prediction isn’t based on horse-race polls, shifting demographics or his own political opinions. Rather, he uses a system of true/false statements he calls the “Keys to the […]

Two American lawmakers have introduced legislation in the US Congress to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, in a humiliating setback to Islamabad ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech before the UN General Assembly. The bill, H.R 6069 or the Pakistan State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act, enjoins the U.S administration to make a formal call on the matter within four months of its passage. The President […]

Amid reports that China and Pakistan are jointly opposing India’s bid for the Nuclear Suppliers Group membership, the US has said India meets missile technology control regime requirements and is ready for entry into the exclusive club. “I’d point you back to what the president said during his visit to India in 2015, where he reaffirmed that the US view was that India meets missile technology control regime requirements and […]

Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump walked back on his threat to ban Muslims from entering the United States as he walked up Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Thursday to meet the party establishment and old guard that has deep reservations about his insurgent candidature, his inchoate statements, and his indeterminate ideology. Trump said in a radio interview on Wednesday that his repeated assertion about banning Muslims from coming […]