The new measures will include additional interviews of applicants' family members, and close scrutiny of potential ties to organised crime, said senior US officials.
Ishaan Tharoor, the journalist son of Union minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, has joined the Washington Post, the major US daily said on Tuesday.
A day after he was acquitted by the Senate on the two impeachment charges -- abuse of power and obstruction to Congress -- Trump appeared confident, energetic and combative as ever against his opponents.
Snooping is one of the oldest peccadilloes of man, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Would you drink a coffee made of mushrooms?
Trump also raised the possibility of using light to combat the deadly viral infection.
'We're going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time'
The New York Times in a news story on Saturday said that American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked terrorists for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan -- including targeting American troops -- amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.
Harbin, China is considered to be one of the coldest places on Earth. It's a superlative the city's million million residents don't take lightly. In fact, for the last 36 years, the community has embraced its frigid identity and invited people from around the globe to experience it for themselves with its famed International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Billed as the world's largest winter festival, the ice and snow sculpture festival is truly a sight to behold. Don't believe us, take a look!
Professor Allan Lichtman has predicted that if elected, Trump, 70, would eventually be impeached by a Republican Congress that would prefer a President like Mike Pence -- someone whom establishment Republicans know and trust, the Washington Post reported.
President Trump originally announced his intention to withdraw from the agreement in 2017 and formally notified the United Nations last year. The US exited the pact after a mandatory year-long waiting period that ended on Wednesday.
'With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,' Trump tweeted on Thursday, just 96 days before the election. 'It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???' Trump said in his tweet, which was immediately condemned by the opposition Democratic party leaders.
The first fatality from COVID-19 was reported from the Washington state on February 26.
Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P Bezos shocked the world on Monday when he announced his decision to buy The Washington Post, one of America's leading newspapers, for $250 million (about Rs 1527.5 crore) in cash.
A man identified as "Al Karar the Iraqi", threatened the 'crusader' nations who are fighting together against the IS and the US capital was specifically singled out.
Medical experts have warned that the volume of vaccine available to fight the coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 in coming years is expected to fall far short of global demand, despite an unprecedented effort to manufacture billions of doses.
Transcripts of both the conversations that happened on January 27 and 28 respectively were posted by The Washington Post.
The Johnson and Johnson and Sputnik vaccines should be approved now, as should the Pfizer and Moderna ones, suggests Naushad Forbes. Leave it to the companies to figure out how to put in place the right chilling infrastructure. Don't let a lack of approvals deprive the country of availability, suggests Naushad Forbes.
Harris, 51, whose mother was from Chennai and father from Jamaica, is one among the six Democratic leaders, whom The Washington Post said are the top contenders to bag the party's nomination for the 2020 presidential elections.
Trump tweeted that the Saudi Crown Prince "told me that he has already started, and will rapidly expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly."
America's NSA cannot be possibly tracking only suspected terrorists in India, says Vicky Nanjappa
The 77-year-old former US vice president will become the 46th president of the United States, CNN reported, after a victory in Pennsylvania, the state where he was born put him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
President Donald Trump talked to the Saudi King, during which the latter flatly denied having any knowledge of the missing journalist.
It's Donald Trump like he's never been seen before.
Ex-US secretary of state John Kerry has torn into Trump for accusing him of holding "illegal" meetings with Iran.
Narendra Modi, who was unwelcomed in the United States only a few years ago, is now a 'fashion icon' to the American media.
The White House has said the forthcoming book by John Bolton is "full of classified information"
Pakistan-based Al Qaeda engineers are making several efforts including developing a laser warning system and shoulder-fired missiles to counter American drones, according to a report.
As far as I'm concerned, we already have won it, Trump said.
Contractors were seen busy boarding up major stores and businesses from New York and Boston in the north to southern Houston to Washington DC and Chicago in the east to San Francisco in theWest.
A study on global social attitudes claims that India and Jordan are the least tolerant populations in the world. On the other hand, the survey found the United States, Britain, Canada and South America among the least racist.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said the money was worth it.
Biden won the Republican stronghold of Georgia, a top state official said after a manual recount, becoming the first Democrat to have won the key battleground state since 1992.
Trump's apparent confirmation that he is under probe for obstruction of justice by special counsel appointed to probe alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential polls came a day after a Washington Post report pointed to such an investigation.
Will the latest development see a marked break from the way the case has been going?
'It was like a f---ing firing squad,' The New York Post reported.
'This year felt different -- and was different.' 'For the first time, the Indian American voter seemed to matter.'
The US president further said he would follow the hearing between Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused him of sexual assault, slated to take place on Thursday
Trump said "running against" Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton makes keeping the party behind him easier.
Jeff Bezos is one of the few chief executives in corporate America who refuse to bow to Wall Street's quarterly profit demands.
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