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.
'We have done more testing than all of these countries combined -- France, United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Austria, Australia, Sweden and Canada,' President Trump told reporters at daily Coronavirus briefing in the White House.
Being an economic superpower, traditionally the US is the biggest contributor to many world bodies. Trump, being a businessman, doesn’t concur in that kind of philanthropic attitude, for sure. He certainly believes that as president of the USA his main job is to nourish the economy of his country, and only a bullrun of the Dow Jones would preserve his credentials with his electorate.
Trump's comments come two days after Wuhan city, which remained the epicentre of Coronavirus outbreak for a long time, on Friday abruptly raised its death toll by 50 per cent, admitting that many fatal cases were “mistakenly reported” or missed entirely, bringing the total number of deaths in the city to 3,869.
China has maintained the COVID-19 virus emerged from a Wuhan food market whose merchandise reportedly included exotic wild animals sold for human consumption. Country's scientists have said the virus likely jumped from an animal to humans in a market that sold wildlife.
Time and again, the American administration has been saying that it doesn't rule out that the novel coronavirus was spread accidentally from a laboratory researching bats in Wuhan.
