Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has asked the US administration to take ‘decisive steps’ to end bigotry and hate crimes towards Indian-Americans and other religious minorities in the US.
The Indian Ministry of Sanitation on Monday issued guidelines to the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin), stating that members of the third-gender community be allowed to use public toilet of their choice (men or women).
Trade is “slightly more of a concern” than security in Singapore’s relationship with the new U.S. administration, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Thursday (April 6) after a meeting with his U.S. counterpart in Washington. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said previously that U.S. President Donald
The UK Home Office from tomorrow is set to implement tougher and more expensive visa rules announced last year, affecting Indians and other nationals from outside the European Union (EU). The Tier 2 category of visas will undergo a major set of changes under the new rules.
India rejected an offer from the US to help de-escalate tensions between India and Pakistan on Tuesday, saying that its position on the bilateral redressal of all issues between the two countries has not changed.
Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, has claimed that her mother was not allowed to be a judge in India because she was a woman, despite the fact that women have been judges in the country since 1937.
In the aftermath of a series of hate crime incidents targeting them, Indian-Americans, particularly Hindus and Sikhs, held an awareness rally against these hate crimes.
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday assured Parliament that there was no need to worry about the job security of Indian IT professionals in the US. She said four bills have come to the US Congress regarding H-1B and L1 visas for professionals but they have not been passed.
Indian-American Democrat Senator from California Kamala Harris is maintaining a high profile in Washington, but she remains an enigma to many residents of her own state; also, Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, has seen her job approval rating tick down, according to a poll released late
India is home to the world’s fourth highest number of billionaires, with Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani leading the club of more than 100 super rich Indians, according to a new list released by Forbes magazine.
