In a sign perhaps of the second Trump administration's priorities, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first foreign engagement will be a meeting of the Quad foreign ministers later on Tuesday followed by bilateral meetings with each of them, starting with External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterparts from the other three QUAD nations reaffirmed their shared commitment to strengthening a free and open Indo-Pacific where "sovereignty and territorial integrity are upheld and defended."
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met America's new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and exchanged views on a wide range of regional and global issues.
US President Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance to support the H-1B visa program, which allows employers in the US to hire nonimmigrant workers for speciality occupations, stating that the country needs "competent" and "great" individuals to come to the US and that this can be achieved through the H-1B visa program.
US President Donald Trump said in an Oval Office signing ceremony on Monday that his administration will impose 25 per cent tariffs on Mexico and Canada on February 1, an extraordinary change in North American trade policy that could raise prices for American consumers.
In an era of heightened political polarisation, Wednesday’s meeting between the incoming and outgoing US presidents signals a return to civility.
Illegal immigration is a muchbandied topic in democracies, for it is very easy to invoke politically and ignite emotions, but complex to handle meaningfully. While failure to check illegal immigration is a failure of the State and its agencies, the rhetoric against it is almost invariably partisan, racial, or communal.
US aerospace giant Boeing has announced that it is issuing layoff notices, starting this week, to workers as part of the debt-ridden planemaker’s drastic plan to cut 17,000 jobs which works out to 10 per cent of its staff worldwide.
US President-elect Donald Trump is replacing the federal prosecutor who filed the case against a former Indian Intelligence officer charged in an alleged "murder-for-hire" plot against a Khalistani leader.
The United States strongly condemned the November 9 bombing at a railway station in Pakistan's Quetta.
