Washington: Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal was arrested along with 575 other women during a protest staged here against US President Donald Trump’s border and immigration policy. Jayapal said she was asked to speak at the demonstration called by women at the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday, reports The Seattle[Read More…]
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Want to pardon Muhammad Ali, says Trump
Washington: US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is considering a pardon for late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, seemingly unaware of the fact that the former world heavyweight champion does not need one. Ali was convicted in 1967 for refusing to be drafted into the United States military[Read More…]
Do not quit Iran deal: UN urges Trump
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Donald Trump not to walk away from an international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Speaking to the BBC, Guterres said there was a real risk of war if the 2015 agreement was not preserved. Trump has been a strong[Read More…]
North Korea suspends nuclear, missile tests
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced the immediate suspension of nuclear and missile tests, media reports said on Saturday. “From April 21, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Efe quoted Kim as saying. North Korea will also “shut down a nuclear test[Read More…]
Trump’s approval rating highest in 11 months: Poll
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has rebounded to its highest level since the 100-day mark of his presidency, even as his approval ratings for handling major issues remain largely negative, according to a new CNN poll. Overall, 42 per cent approve of the way Trump is handling the presidency,[Read More…]
Ex-Playboy model claims having affair with Trump
New York: A former Playboy model claimed that she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006 and has also described the US President’s alleged system for concealing affairs, a media report said. The New Yorker in the report on Friday said that Trump met Karen McDougal in June 2006[Read More…]
Lives being destroyed by mere allegation: Trump
Washington: US President Donald Trump appeared to side with men accused of domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, saying lives were being “destroyed by a mere allegation” after two White House aides resigned this week amid domestic abuse claims. In a tweet on Saturday, Trump asked whether “due process” was being given[Read More…]
House of Representatives rejects resolution to impeach President Trump
The US House of Representatives rejected a resolution tabled by Democrat Texas Congressman Al Green to impeach President Donald Trump, the media reported. The resolution was rejected in a 364-58 vote on Wednesday evening, reports The Hill magazine. Every Republican voted with a majority of Democrats to turn away the[Read More…]
Youth Congress chief apologises over meme targetting PM Modi
A meme on an official Twitter handle of the Indian Youth Congress online magazine ‘Yuva Desh’ targetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi was dubbed “deplorable” by the BJP on Tuesday, with the Congress youth wing later apologising for it. The meme also draw disapproval from the Congress, BJP’s Union Ministers and[Read More…]
GES: IT hub Hyderabad getting decked up for Ivanka’s visit
With less than a week left for Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), this Information Technology hub is getting decked up for the delegates from 150 countries, especially US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump. The roads, many of them battered in rains, are being recarpetted with municipal workers filling up potholes[Read More…]
North Korea warns that nuclear war may break anytime
As the situation on the Korean plateau has reached the “touch-and-go point”, North Korea has warned that a nuclear war may break out at any time. According to media reports, the country’s deputy UN ambassador, Kim In-ryong, told the UN general assembly’s disarmament committee that Pyongyang has the right to[Read More…]
Read full text: Barack Obama sent personal letter to Donald Trump as he left Oval Office
President Barack Obama wrote a personal letter to Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States took charge, in a bid to continue a tradition that past Presidents followed. While Trump has mentioned about the letter, he made sure that no journalists get access to it. But now,[Read More…]
Twitterati troll Trump for misspelling ‘heal ‘twice in his tweet
US President Donald Trump has once again become the centre of mockery on Twitter, as he misspelt the word ‘heal’ twice in his tweet. Though the tweets were deleted and reposted correctly, Twitterati continues to make a joke of what President Trump wrote. These series of tweets show how Trump[Read More…]
PM Modi and Trump discuss peace across Indo-Pacific region, North Korea
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed to improve peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region by establishing a new two-by-two ministerial dialogue, which would elevate their strategic consultations, the White House said on Tuesday. After a conversation with PM Modi on the eve of India’s Independence[Read More…]
Ivanka Trump to lead US delegation for entrepreneur summit in India
Daughter of American President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump is set to lead the American delegation at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India, starting from November 28. “Ivanka Trump will lead the US delegation to India this fall, supporting women’s entrepreneurship globally,” Trump said in a tweet on Thursday, hours after[Read More…]
Village in India to send over 1000 rakhis to Donald Trump
The women and children of this remote village symbolically named by an NGO after US President Donald Trump will send him 1,001 rakhis on the Hindu festival that celebrates the brother-sister bond. The residents of Marora village in the backwards Mewat region represents the “wish of the people that ties[Read More…]
Transgenders will not be recruited in US military now: Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he will not allow any transgender people to join the military, saying that it is not easy to bear the “tremendous medical costs and disruption” they cause. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with[Read More…]
Japan’s first lady pretends not to speak English to avoid chatting with Donald Trump
Akie Abe, the first lady of Japan and wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has spoken English many times in public, fluently, with only the slightest accent. However, last week at the G20 summit in Germany, when the opera performance ended, Trump says she was seated next to him for dinner[Read More…]
North Korea launched missile that can reach anywhere; Trump calls it ‘nonsense’
North Korea has conducted its first successful test of a long-range missile and claimed that it can “reach anywhere in the world.” The missile test, conducted on Tuesday morning, reached a height of 2,802 kilometers (1741 miles), reports state broadcaster Korea Central Television (KCTV). This is the highest ever altitude[Read More…]
US travel ban on six Muslim countries takes effect
The US President Donald Trump’s provisional ban on refugees and travelers from six (largely Muslim) nations came into effect. The Supreme Court permitted the ban following a five-month battle with rights groups. According to the Trump administration, the ban is necessary to block terrorists from entering the country. However, immigrant[Read More…]
Congress terms Modi-Trump meet disappointing, Naidu says oppn ‘jealous’
After Congress called the result of PM Modi’s meeting with US President Donald Trump as “disappointing”, I&B minister Venkaiah Naidu retorted that the Opposition party was jealous of its own “lost opportunities” in diplomacy. “This is borne out of sheer jealousy and guilt as Prime Minister’s every foreign visit holds[Read More…]
PM Modi meets Trump: India and USA to strengthen trade and economic ties
Both PM Modi and US President Donald Trump swore to strengthen the Indo-U.S. economic partnership in a way which will be beneficial for both the countries. They also vowed to work towards solving the existing differences between the two. “On the economic side, the two sides had very productive discussions.[Read More…]
President Trump had said ‘very gracious things’ about me, says PM Modi
After being welcomed by US President, Donald Trump at White House on Monday, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said that the US President had said “very gracious things” about him on a visit to India in 2014. “Even before he (Trump) ran for the US Presidency, when he came to India[Read More…]
PM talks about terrorism, surgical strikes, lauds Swaraj in speech to Indian Americans
A day before his first meeting with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed Indian Americans on Sunday. He talked about cross-border terrorism and the surgical strikes carried out by India across the Line of Control last year. The US has made counter-terrorism a crucial plank of his[Read More…]
Swimsuit featuring Trump’s shocked face is new internet sensation
A California-based company has come up with a swimsuit featuring yawning face of Donald Trump and it has become a new internet sensation. The bathing suit featuring “Shocked Trump” lit up the internet and has gone viral now. The images of swimsuit printed with an enlarged picture of the US[Read More…]