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Unesco approves US proposal to rejoin organisation   The Unesco's 193 member states have approved a proposal submitted by the US to rejoin the organisation. During an Extraordinary Session of the General Conference on Friday, 132 member states voted in favour, while Russia, North Korea, Palestine, Belarus, China, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Nicaragua, Syria voted against the return of the US to the organisation, reports Xinhua news agency. Friday's vote came after two days of discussions. The US had pulled out of the Un...
Unesco approves US proposal to rejoin organisation
Unesco approves US proposal to rejoin organisation
Source: IANS
1/07/2023 11:53:33 AM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ends US visit with a ringing endorsement of Biden While ending his four-day US visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is an astute politician, left behind a gift for his host, President wBiden: a resounding endorsement. "Over the last three days, we have been together continuously," Modi said on Friday in his address to a packed auditorium of Indian-Americans who had travelled from all over the US. Modi was at the White House for a private dinner on Wednesday, the day he arrived here from New York, and the whole of next mor...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ends US visit with a ringing endorsement of Biden
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ends US visit with a ringing endorsement of Biden
Source: IANS
25/06/2023 12:48:54 PM
India unlikely to get U.S. exemption on steel, aluminium tariffs-sources -India has asked the United States for an exemption from U.S. steel and aluminium tariffs, in exchange for removing some tariffs on U.S. agricultural goods but Washington is not seriously considering the offer, sources familiar with the discussions said. Negotiators in New Delhi and Washington have been in talks, hoping to reach an agreement during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United States later this month, with Indian officials offering to withdraw retaliatory t...
India unlikely to get U.S. exemption on steel, aluminium tariffs-sources
India unlikely to get U.S. exemption on steel, aluminium tariffs-sources
Source: Reuters
9/06/2023 8:58:09 AM
US expects Biden`s nominee, Ajay Banga, to be elected as World Bank chief U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday said she expected the U.S. nominee to head the World Bank, former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, to be elected as president of the multilateral development bank. In testimony prepared for the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, Yellen said Banga would be charged with helping evolve the institution to better address new challenges. "This evolution will help the Bank deliver ...
US expects Biden`s nominee, Ajay Banga, to be elected as World Bank chief
US expects Biden`s nominee, Ajay Banga, to be elected as World Bank chief
Source: Reuters
29/03/2023 3:49:24 PM
Piyush Goyal mocks 'mini' trade deal with US, concedes no FTA on offer  Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that India was not interested any longer in the "mini" trade deal that was once under discussion with former US President Donald Trump and a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is not on the table because President Joe Biden's administration in not currently interested in negotiating one with any country. India and the US have decided to focus instead on greater market access, ease of doing business between the two countries...
Piyush Goyal mocks 'mini' trade deal with US, concedes no FTA on offer
Piyush Goyal mocks 'mini' trade deal with US, concedes no FTA on offer
Source: IANS
12/01/2023 9:25:08 AM
US panel votes to make Donald Trump`s tax returns public A US House of Representatives panel has voted to make six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns public. On Tuesday evening, the Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-16 to publish the documents, with all all Republicans opposed to the decision, reports the BBC. The move caps a nearly four-year legal battle by Democrats to obtain the documents, which was ultimately decided by the US Supreme Court last month. US Presidents are not required by law to re...
US panel votes to make Donald Trump`s tax returns public
US panel votes to make Donald Trump`s tax returns public
Source: IANS
21/12/2022 11:32:21 AM
Pentagon awards $9 bn Cloud project to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle Ending the bitter Cloud war, the Pentagon has awarded its multi-billion dollar Cloud-computing contract to all the major players -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle - that can reach up to $9 billion in total till 2028. The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) will allow mission owners to acquire authorised commercial cloud offerings directly from the Cloud Service Providers contract awardees. "No funds are being obligated at the time of award; funds will be obligated on in...
Pentagon awards $9 bn Cloud project to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle
Pentagon awards $9 bn Cloud project to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle
Source: IANS
8/12/2022 3:34:07 PM
Dollar edges up, investors weigh outlooks for rates and economy The dollar edged up on Thursday, supported by a push higher in U.S. Treasury yields, as investors weighed the outlook for Federal Reserve policy against the chances that high interest rates could lead to a recession. Next week brings a raft of major central bank decisions, including those from the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. The key question for traders and investors is whether inflation has reached a peak, giving policymakers more scope to delive...
Dollar edges up, investors weigh outlooks for rates and economy
Dollar edges up, investors weigh outlooks for rates and economy
Source: Reuters
8/12/2022 9:19:59 AM
Elon Musk reveals Twitter 2.0, says top software aces joining company  Elon Musk on Sunday revealed his Twitter 2.0 -- The Everything App, saying that the new user signups are at an all-time high and the company is now actively recruiting. Musk, who sacked more than half of Twitter's workforce, said that "world-class software aces are joining Twitter". Sharing some company slides he shared with Twitter employees, the world's richest man said the next-gen Twitter will focus on advertising as entertainment and video. "We'r...
Elon Musk reveals Twitter 2.0, says top software aces joining company
Elon Musk reveals Twitter 2.0, says top software aces joining company
Source: IANS
27/11/2022 11:03:08 AM
Nancy Pelosi ends historic term as first woman US speaker Nancy Pelosi, the first and so far only woman to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives, ended her historic term Thursday and announced she will stay on as just a member. Pelosi, who is often referred to as the most powerful woman in US politics, was widely expected to step down in the new Congress elected in the midterm polls, but her announcement drove many lawmakers of her party to tears, drew banner headlines on news sites and carpet coverage on TV news media. "For me, t...
Nancy Pelosi ends historic term as first woman US speaker
Nancy Pelosi ends historic term as first woman US speaker
Source: IANS
18/11/2022 11:09:28 AM
Users will soon be able to pick a Twitter version they like better : Elon Musk Elon Musk on Saturday said that Twitter users will soon be able to pick a version of the microblogging platform they like better, like a moving maturity ranking. "Being able to select which version of Twitter you want is probably better, much as it would be for a movie maturity rating," he tweeted. Musk added: "The rating of the tweet itself could be self-selected, then modified by user feedback". The world's richest man also said that "comedy is now lega...
Users will soon be able to pick a Twitter version they like better : Elon Musk
Users will soon be able to pick a Twitter version they like better : Elon Musk
Source: IANS
30/10/2022 9:50:29 AM
S.Korea, Iran vice FMs hold phone talks on frozen funds, bilateral ties Senior diplomats of South Korea and Iran held phone talks on Wednesday to discuss ways to improve bilateral relations strained by the issue of Iranian funds frozen in Seoul, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said. During the phone call, First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong and his Iranian counterpart and chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri-Kani, shared the latest development of negotiations aimed at reviving a 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and ...
S.Korea, Iran vice FMs hold phone talks on frozen funds, bilateral ties
S.Korea, Iran vice FMs hold phone talks on frozen funds, bilateral ties
Source: IANS
13/07/2022 4:06:57 PM
Trump's 'Truth Social' app likely to launch on February 21: Report Former US President Donald Trump's new social media app, Truth Social, will launch on the iOS platform on February 21, according to a listing on the App Store. The app is being made by the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the former leaders's new media company led by former US Representative Devin Nunes, The Verge reported on Thursday. Truth Social looks very much like a Twitter clone, based on screenshots in the App Store listing, the report said. The profile page sh...
Trump's 'Truth Social' app likely to launch on February 21: Report
Trump's 'Truth Social' app likely to launch on February 21: Report
Source: IANS
7/01/2022 3:02:17 PM
Trump says he would negotiate Brexit with 'tougher' attitude than Theresa May LONDON  - U.S. President Donald Trump would take a "tougher" approach to Brexit negotiations than Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, he said in a television interview to be broadcast later on Sunday. In the interview with British channel ITV, Trump said the European Union was "not cracked up to what it's supposed to be" and claimed he had predicted the result of the June 2016 referendum in which Britons voted to leave the EU. Trump was elected to the U.S...
Trump says he would negotiate Brexit with 'tougher' attitude than Theresa May
Trump says he would negotiate Brexit with 'tougher' attitude than Theresa May
Source: Reuters
28/01/2018 4:31:32 PM