United States Consul General in Mumbai, Edgard Kagan said that his country encourages and welcomes “qualified Indians”. US president Donald Trump is “very committed” to relations with India. In an interview, he answered about issues regarding the H-1B visa programme. Edgard told, “We strongly encourage and welcome Indians to study in the US. We believe
As per one recently released data, around 21 public sector banks and 3 private sector lenders collected around Rs 5,000 crore from customers for non-maintenance of minimum balance in their accounts in 2017-18. India’s largest lender State Bank of India led the task of penalising customers for not maintaining minimum account balance. SBI collected nearly
Yesterday, R.K. Shivananda, convener of Act East Policy Committee, held a press conference at his residence at Kwakeithel. Shivananda told that recently completed highway connecting Myanmar through Moreh will be officially opened on August 8. He further added that this 73.6 km ‘India-Myanmar Friendship Road’ has been under constant renovation to improve relations with the
Till now, only three countries US, Russia and China have been able to soft-land its spacecraft on the mission’s surface. With Israel too planning to launch a moon mission in December, it will be a race between Tel Aviv and New Delhi for the fourth position in the world to land on the moon. However,
Major Leetul Gogoi is likely to face disciplinary action by the Army. In April last year, Major was also at the centre of the “human shield” controversy at Budgam district. However, he got a clean chit in that incident. But on May 23 this year, Major Gogoi had once again triggered another controversy. After that,
A team of mountaineers has discovered a frozen body of a soldier and parts of the wreckage of an IAF plane which crashed in Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley 50 years ago. This team was on a garbage clean-up expedition to Chandrabhaga - 13 peak from July 1 to 15. Rajiv Rawat was leading this team
The Myanmarese government has announced facility for ‘Visa on Arrival’ with effect from 8th August 2018. It can be considered as a step to ease transportation and also to promote tourism. In Tamu town of Myanmar, there will be an ‘Opening ceremony of the International border of Myanmar- India’. Local Myanmarese in this town has
Delhi Police has arrested a 22-year-old BTech graduate for allegedly conning the delivery boy for a wristwatch worth Rs 90,000. DCP (North) Nupur Prasad told that Vaibhav Khurana wanted to impress his girlfriend. So, he hatched a plan to order the watch through an e-commerce site on the delivery boy and then walk away with
In central Assam’s Morigaon district, officials have identified some 200 people declared foreigners by various Foreigners’ Tribunals. District officials have started the work to delete the names of ‘declared foreigners’ whose names had been included in the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). There are 100 such tribunals where people of suspect nationality are required
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma shared with the media persons that state government is in the process of finalising the sites for the National Games 2022. The government made a lot of headway into the project and it also has fast-tracked everything. However, Chief Minister also admitted about existing bottlenecks like getting land funds, but
