Austan Goolsbee, one of United States President Barack Obama's closest economic advisers, announced on Monday night that he would resign.
'I think we're standing up to the Chinese. Our allies following us, whether it's Huawei and the UN Germany now coming up'
Floyd's death has triggered nationwide violent protests with a section of the protesters resorting to looting and rioting across the country, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
'This is a historic juncture when the US is in great need of an alliance with India to strengthen its hands in the fierce struggle with China in the Asian theatre,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Nicholas Burns, the lead negotiator on the US-India nuclear deal in the Bush administration, has said that Washington must reassure New Delhi that it is a "valued strategic partner."
Running beneath the World Wide Web of Facebook, Google and YouTube, the Deep Web is like a vast, dark ocean.
As part of an ongoing series, we bring you stories of young Indian Americans who came looking for the Real India and found their real selves instead. Rucha Desai recounts his trip to India.
Modi, upon arrival, was received by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
The first seven picks of the draft entered as college freshman and 18-year-old Frenchman Frank Ntilikina was taken by the New York Knicks with the eighth choice.
After resigning, Bose moved to Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations as a Senior Research Fellow in the Politics of South Asia. Levy has been responsible for the BBCs Public Policy, Public Affairs and European policy teams, and for developing the policy for the BBCs Charter Review in 2006.
Even as protests in America continue over President Donald Trump's travel ban, thousands gathered across the UK to protest against the same. Here are scenes of the protests that spread from New York to London.
The government has retained Arvind Subramanian as its chief economic advisor, unlike other American professors Dr Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Panagariya, who quit their jobs as RBI governor and NITI deputy chairman respectively.
A move is afoot to make degrees awarded by Indian universities more acceptable by foreign universities and the international job market, by making admission procedures for students uniform and streamlining selection criteria of faculty members.
Hillary Clinton has surged ahead of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, two new opinion polls showed on Monday, as the Democratic presumptive nominee capitalised on the controversial Republican leader's recent campaign missteps.
'This year felt different -- and was different.' 'For the first time, the Indian American voter seemed to matter.'
Donald Trump has now officially become a villain! Not literally but as a comic-book character in a Spider-Man spin-off story by Marvel Comics which depicts an "amorphous, villainous" avatar of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate.
The United States is going to retain a laser focus on its counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said on Friday, and warned the Taliban of a forceful response to any attack on American forces or disruption of its operations at the Kabul airport.
The 43-year-old mogul was walking into the Colosseum Hotel and Fitness Club in Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam for his routine gym session during the early hours of Thursday morning when two white men and an unknown number of accomplices in two cars waylaid him and quickly drove away.
Seattle football fans erupted in cheers so raucous early in the Monday night match-up against the New Orleans Saints that their jumping up and down registered as a minor earthquake, local media reported.
The arrest of Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, after the suicide of his roommate at Rutgers University in NJ has shocked the Indian community. Tyler Clementi, 18, of Ridgewood, a freshman at Rutgers, appears to have killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge last week. Ravi and another student, Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton University, NJ, have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for secretly placing a camera in the dormitory room
'Outside investors don't want to get tangled up in a religious war.'
The Dalai Lama speaks at a discussion on the scientific basis for compassion at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. This is the second day of his six-day visit to Seattle, where he is scheduled to host a five-day conference on compassion.
'Consider Mrs Gandhi's view of her opponents: Traitors, anti-nationals, rumour-mongers.' Does the spirit of the Emergency-era Indira Gandhi still rule India? asks Vir Sanghvi.
The match ended in 52 minutes as Williams played her forehand into the net.
A prestigious American university has decided to rescind its suspension order against a student who displayed a Hindu swastika on his residence hall's bulletin board.
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What do we know about India's devastating second wave, and can we assign responsibility for it?
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The US universities produce enough graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths, says the report.
According to records, at least 5 victims were defrauded.
The relations between Pakistan and the US nosedived this January after US President Donald Trump accused Islamabad of giving nothing to Washington but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to terrorists.
She will replace controversial Brett Kavanaugh who endured a bitter confirmation battle last year after President Donald Trump named him to the US Supreme Court.
India's economy has bounced back amazingly from the Covid-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown over the last one year, but it is not out of the woods yet, according to the World Bank, which in its latest report has predicted that the country's real GDP growth for fiscal year 21/22 could range from 7.5 to 12.5 per cent.
On July 17, US Consular Chief Nicholas Manring will take questions on how to apply for a US student visa between 2 and 3 pm IST.
'Modi is still immensely popular and, therefore, he can sustain any number of policy failures.' 'Modi himself has worn multiple faces so it would be naive to think that the Modi of 2021 will be the same Modi that will be campaigning for re-election in 2024.'
"Nations need to recognise higher education as the engine of economic growth and prosperity," says Dr Susan Aldridge, president, University of Maryland University College, US, Aziz Haniffa reports
New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg appointed Sonia Das as her chief of staff. She will take charge on January 1.
The envoy said India has been successful in articulating its case with the international community including the US.
'It will be normal, regular, everyday politics whether you like it or not.' That's what this country needs,' a New Yorker tells Payal Singh Mohanka.
In his maiden address to the employees of the State Department, the US president said he has come to the building to send a clear message to the world: America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back.
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