India, Canada likely to sign FTA soon
Toronto, Aug 2 (IANS) India and Canada are likely to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) soon. Although the two countries have held multiple rounds...
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US to hold second round of H-1B visa lottery for FY 2024
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Washington, July 28 (IANS) In a move that could benefit Indians, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will hold a second...
Twitter to make dark mode default: Musk
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San Francisco, July 28 (IANS) As Twitter is being rebranded as X, its owner Elon Musk on Friday announced that the company will make dark...
Indian-American NY state senator announces Congressional run
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New York, July 28 (IANS) Indian-American New York State Senator Kevin Thomas has announced that he will be running for New York’s 4th Congressional District...
Indo-Canadian captures prestigious House of Commons seat
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Toronto, July 28 (IANS) Indo-Canadian candidate Shuvaloy Majumdar has secured a seat in the House of Commons following a by-election victory in Calgary Heritage, a...
Canadian pension plan investment board delegation meets Sitharaman
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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday met a delegation from the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which highlighted its...
With Rs 1,000 cr investment US-based firm to set up silicon carbide manufacturing facility in Odisha
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Bhubaneswar, July 27 (IANS) US-based Silicon Power Group has proposed to set up a 150 mm silicon carbide manufacturing facility in Odisha with an investment...
WhatsApp rolling out new safety tools on Android beta
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San Francisco, July 27 (IANS) Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out new safety tools for when users receive messages from unknown phone numbers, on...
US climate envoy John Kerry arrives on 5-day visit to India, meets Sitharaman
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New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The US special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry, who arrived in India on Wednesday on a five-day visit, met...
ChatGPT for Android now available for download
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San Francisco, July 26 (IANS) OpenAI has announced that users can now download the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT on their Android devices in India,...
SpaceX rocket made a hole in ionosphere: US space physicist
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New York, July 25 (IANS) A Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this month has made a temporary hole in Earth’s ionosphere,...
WhatsApp rolling out channels to more countries
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San Francisco, July 25 (IANS) Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp on Tuesday announced that it is rolling out channels to more countries. The company made the...
Musk rebranding Twitter to ‘X’, killing blue bird logo
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San Francisco, July 24 (IANS) Twitter-owner Elon Musk has announced that “X.com” now directs to “twitter.com” and “interim X logo” will go “live later today.”...
US-based IT firm to provide jobs to 200 people in Kerala
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Thiruvananthapuram, July 24 (IANS) A US-based IT company that set up its office in Kerala will start its operations from Monday (July 24). The company...
WhatsApp is widely rolling out landscape mode support for video calls on iOS
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San Francisco, July 24 (IANS) Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is widely rolling out landscape mode support for video calls, silence unknown callers option and more,...
YouTube testing viewer-created Shorts featuring comments
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San Francisco, July 24 (IANS) Google-owned YouTube has announced that it is testing a feature that enables mobile viewers to create Shorts featuring comments posted...
Defence drives India-US relationship, as China’s shadow grows bigger
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Washington, July 23 (IANS) The joint production of GE’s F-414 jet engines in India announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the US...
India-US cooperation extends from emerging tech to Tamil Studies
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New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) In more recent years, India-US relations have been invigorated by not just a confluence of political or strategic interests, but...
Once China divided India & US, now it brings the two nations closer
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New York, July 22 (IANS) The US expectations of the relations with India – that it would become a bulwark against China and Russia –...
Indian diaspora’s success story has changed how US views India
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New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) The rapid rise of Indian-Americans from politics to administration, entrepreneurship to technology, medicine to hospitality, science to academia has put...
Despite visa issues, layoffs, US still a magnet for students, techies
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New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) The massive green card backlog leading to longer wait for permanent residency, limited availability of non-immigrant H-1B visas and threat...