India's economy battered by the COVID-19 pandemic is forecast to crater by 9.6 per cent during the current financial year but can recover by 5.4 per cent next financial year if there is wide vaccination against the disease and it is contained, the World Bank said on Tuesday
With a pledge to “bring human-centric and inclusive solutions” to world problems, India has taken its place on the UN Security Council, the organisation's highest decision-making body
India became a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on January 1 taking a seat at the UN's highest decision-making body at a time of changing reality even as it presses ahead with its quest for a permanent seat
A US federal court has shut down a US-based computer scam that preyed on elderly Americans using call centre operators in India resulting in losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars
US President-Elect Joe Biden named on Monday Bharat Ramamurti to be a deputy director of the National Economic Council with an important role in carrying out his campaign promises of banking and consumer reforms
The UN is only aware that one if the vehicles with its monitoring group in Kashmir was “hit by an unidentified object” and no one was hurt in the incident, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq
The US Congress has expressed concern over China's “aggression” along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) - the de facto border with India - and declared as “baseless” the territorial claims by Beijing in the Himalayas
Kamala Harris made history as the first Indian American and the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States when the electoral college affirmed her victory and that of Joe Biden as president in the bitterly fought election for the nation's leadership
Pakistan is 'marketing' Hindu and Christian women as “concubines” and “forced brides” to China, says a top US diplomat for religious freedom, Samuel Brownback
The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill - co-sponsored among others by three Indian American lawmakers and supporting a "stronger US-India partnership" - to establish several educational programmes and a foundation to promote the legacies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the two great champions of non-violence
