Air France will expand its no-flyover zone around North Korea after concerns a missile test crossed a plane’s flight path, the media reported. On Thursday, the French flag carrier said the move was being taken as a “precautionary measure” after a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) splashed down near the route being taken by […]
The US has declared a full-scale trade war against Russia with the enactment of a new sanctions bill, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “The hope of improving our relations with the new US administration has come to an end,” said Medvedev on Facebook on Wednesday, commenting on the signing of the bill by US […]
A proposed US immigration reform legislation is narrowly focused on Green Cards and it does not cover temporary non-immigrant visas like the H1-B given to tens of thousands of Indian professionals. The Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, which was unveiled on Wednesday, “doesn’t deal with guest workers and temporary non-immigrant visas” […]
By Saket Suman Book: East or West; Author: Vinati Sukhdev; Publisher: Westland; Pages: 135 The many aspects of everyday Indian life — history, culture, language, family relationships and marriage — that we in India tend to take for granted are often major issues of contention for NRIs living overseas – an estimated 30 million of […]
Los Angeles Indian actress Priyanka Chopra, who has found a foothold in Hollywood, is reportedly executive producing a comedy series about Bollywood’s dancing diva Madhuri Dixit’s life for US network ABC. According an exclusive report by variety.com, the yet untitled series is based on the real life of Madhuri, who will also executive produce the […]
Better than expected iPhone sales led to Apple posting a quarterly revenue of $45.4 billion — up seven per cent YoY (year-over-year) — for the third quarter of 2017. These results compare to revenue of $42.4 billion and earnings per diluted share of $1.42 in the year-ago second quarter, the company said in a statement […]
The US wishes to sit down and hold dialogue with North Korea, but only if the Communist nation gives up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said. Days after North Korea on Sunday launched its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a month, Tillerson on Tuesday said Washington was “responding […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the American diplomatic mission in Moscow to reduce its staff by 755 employees, an aggressive response to the new US sanctions, the media reported. While making the announcement on Sunday, Putin said Russia had run out of patience waiting for relations with the US to improve, reports The New […]
US President Donald Trump has been pressuring Republican senators not to give up their fight to overturn Obamacare despite their failure last week to pass a bill to partially replace it. Over the weekend, Trump has bombarded Republican lawmakers with Twitter posts in which he has even threatened to cut federal subsidies to their states […]
Days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence (AI) was the biggest risk, Facebook has shut down one of its AI systems after chatbots started speaking in their own language defying the codes provided. According to a report in Tech Times on Sunday, the social media giant had to pull the plug on […]