New Delhi: The 14th ministerial-level meeting of the India-United States Trade Policy Forum (TPF) was held here in the national capital on Friday. Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and US Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai, co-chaired the meeting. The Ministers underlined the significance of the Forum in forging robust bilateral trade ties and in enhancing the…
Michigan: The mercury was plummeting across the US Midwest on Saturday as a biting winter storm left hundreds of thousands without power and threatened to disrupt the first key event in the 2024 presidential election campaign. Over a quarter of a million people in Michigan and Wisconsin were left without power as freezing temperatures spread across…
Washington: Houthi rebels on the Arabian Peninsula have been attacking cargo ships in the Red Sea since since Israel launched its military operation in Gaza Strip in October 2023. In a statement on Thursday evening, US President Joe Biden reported that there had been 27 attacks on ships to date. Numerous shipping companies have halted traffic…
Gandhinagar: In a move to stimulate interest in human spaceflight ambitions, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chairman, S Somanath on Thursday called to build a long-term human outpost on the Moon and use it as a base. He contended that the lunar surface could potentially be used for strategic activities. “We also look at the…
Washington: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s undisclosed hospitalisation and cancer diagnosis have triggered a congressional inquiry. President Joe Biden did not learn that his defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, had prostate cancer until Tuesday, the White House said. “Nobody at the White House knew that Secretary Austin had prostate cancer until this morning,” John Kirby, the National…
Florida: The first US-based spacecraft to attempt a moon landing in more than half a century is facing failure merely hours after it blasted off. The “Vulcan” rocket, built by Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s “United Launch Alliance” (ULA), lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. 2:18 a.m. (718 GMT) early on Monday…
At least 20 others were wounded, says senior government official A bomb targeting a polio protection team in northwestern Pakistan Monday killed at least five police officers, officials said. “A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a senior government official…
Israel’s attacks have killed at least 22,722 people in the territory, most of them women and children Bereaved Palestinians on Saturday reburied bodies exhumed from a cemetery in Gaza City, where the Israeli army has been leading a ground offensive since late October, an AFP video showed. The footage from the cemetery in Al Tuffah…
Washington, DC: The Houthis launched an unmanned surface drone in the Red Sea, targeting commercial shipping lanes. This marks the first instance of the Houthis using such a weapon since the onset of their attacks on merchant vessels in the wake of the Gaza war, as reported by CNN. The US Navy commander in the region…
Japanese investigators on Wednesday probed a near-catastrophic collision at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport between a coast guard plane and a passenger jet that airline executives have said was given permission to land. Five people on the coast guard aircraft died, but all 379 passengers and crew escaped to safety down emergency slides minutes before the Japan…
