All parties want upcoming elections held on time with COVID protocol: Election Commissioner

All Indian political parties in Uttar Pradesh have said the upcoming Assembly elections should be held on time while ensuring COVID protocol, the Election Commission said today: Breaking news

Jaishankar, Blinken discuss Indo-Pacific ties

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome and discussed “important regional concerns”.

Five Indian-origin personalities in TIME magazine’s emerging leaders list

Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde, UK’s finance minister Rishi Sunak, Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, doctor and Executive Director of nonprofit Get Us PPE Shikha Gupta and founder of nonprofit Upsolve Rohan Pavuluri.

US firm on H-1B visa rules, but India to keep pushing its case: Swaraj

Stating that there was no significant move to relax H-1B visa norms for the Indian professionals in the US, the Indian Government informed the Parliament that it remains “closely engaged” with the US Administration and the US Congress.

Looking at ways to ‘more actively support’ India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group bid’: White House official

The US is looking at ways to “more actively support” India’s membership bid to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as the Trump administration considers it a very important matter, a top White House official has said.