Calling US President-elect Donald Trump as a "friend of India" and "a friend of Prime Minister Narendra Modi", Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday that New Delhi is looking to further strengthen the economic partnership between the two countries as soon as the new administration takes charge in Washington
India was looking forward to starting talks with the new administration in the United States under Donald Trump, he added.
US President-Elect Donald Trump has named the Kolkata-born Jay Bhattacharya, who raised questions about Covid policies, to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the medical research powerhouse.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he had a "good call" with President-elect Donald Trump following the incoming US leader's announcement that he would impose a 25 per cent tariff on goods coming from Canada when he takes office.
I learned about the concept of chain migration from others on student visas like me soon after I arrived in the USA. Student visas had several limitations.
Earlier, Trump had announced cutting off funding of up to USD 500 million annually to the WHO on April 15, accusing the UN body of 'severely mismanaging and covering up' the spread of the deadly coronavirus when it first emerged in China.
The former Vice President said of the virus that the scale of the loss is staggering and it's infuriating.
The official death toll in Russia is 2,212, although the Kremlin has ascribed the deaths of more than 60 per cent of coronavirus patients in April to other causes.
He also spoke about how the health crisis has underscored racial inequality in America, and expressed outrage at the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot dead on February 23 while out for a jog in Georgia.
In a tweet, shortly after midnight on Friday, Donald Trump announced that his country would donate ventilators to India in the fight against COVID-19. 'We stand with India and Narendra Modi during this pandemic,' he had said.
