Tag: America
17 Killed In Florida School Shooting, Ex-student Arrested
Washington, Feb 15 (IANS) At least 17 students and teachers were killed as a heavily-armed 19-year-old went on a shooting spree outside and inside his former high school in Florida state in the US, authorities said. The shooter was arrested an hour later.....
Trump Declares N.Korea 'extraordinary Threat'
US President Donald Trump cited an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to American national security as he maintained long-standing economic restrictions on North Korea, including the freezing of any assets in Washington, a media report said.....
Trump Open To Meeting Kim Again
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has said that President Donald Trump was open to another meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-un despite National Security Adviser John Bolton's assertion that Washington is still waiting for Pyongyang to take steps toward denuclearization.....
Nikki Haley, First Indian-American On US Cabinet, Resigns
Nikki Haley, the first Indian-American to serve on the United States cabinet and the highest profile woman and non-white in the current administration, has resigned her position as the Permanent Representative to the UN, she and President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday.....
PNB Scam: Mehul Choksi Opts For Antigua & Barbuda Citizenship
Posing fresh complications for India, absconder diamantaire Mehul Choksi, one of the prime accused in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud, has surrendered his Indian citizenship in favour of Antigua & Barbuda Isles in the West Indies, official sources said here on Monday.....
US Senate Confirms Indian American Jurist As Judge
The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of a controversial Indian American jurist, Neomi Rao, to an important judgeship that was vacated by an appointee to the Supreme Court.....
All Pakistan F-16s Counted, None Missing: US Report
India's claim of shooting down a Pakistani F-16 in February has been challenged as a report citing unnamed US officials said that all US-supplied fighter jets to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) have been counted and none is missing. ....
Modi Calls Trilateral Meet With Abe, Trump 'productive'
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a trilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump here, which he termed as "a productive one".....
Trump Briefly Steps Into N.Korea, Meets Kim
US President Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting American leader to step foot into North Korea after he briefly entered the country before holding a bilateral meeting with Pyongyang's Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), that divides the two Koreas.....
Two Americans Held For Flying Drone Over Rashtrapati Bhawan
Intelligence agencies and Delhi Police scrambled into action after they were alerted about a drone flying over the Rashtrapati Bhawan and the Prime Minister's Office in the high-security 'no flying zone' in Lutyens' Delhi this weekend.....
