NEW DELHI: India hopes Afghanistan’s soil will never be used for anti-Indian activities, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar he said on Saturday, joining the inaugural session of intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha via videoconference. In his short speech, the Foreign Minister said that India’s friendship with Afghanistan is “strong and unshakable” and …
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has said the United States has some “incredible” nuclear weapons systems that no one knows about, but he refuted accusations of leaking classified information about them to a renowned investigative journalist in his next book. Written by American journalist Bob Woodward, the book ‘Rage’ to be …
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WASHINGTON / BEIJING: The United States has revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese citizens under a May 29 presidential proclamation to suspend the entry from China of students and researchers considered security risks, a State Department spokeswoman said Wednesday. The acting head of the US Department of Homeland Security, …
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(File photo) WASHINGTON: India, Israel and the United States have begun to collaborate in the area of development and in the next generation of technologies, including a transparent, open, reliable and secure 5G communication network, said a senior official. The ramification of this trilateral initiative in the field of development …
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WUHAN: The Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which many believe is the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, is sealed behind a blue perimeter fence. A large team of security personnel chase away anyone who lingers. “We are just doing our job,” said a black guard who …
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WASHINGTON: Highlighting the great relationship that he has developed with Indian Americans and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump said he would think Indian Americans would vote for him in the November 3 presidential election. “We have great support from India. We have great support from Prime Minister …
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WASHINGTON: An experimental vaccine that stimulates the production of specific proteins could be effective against the new coronavirus that causes Covid-19, according to a study conducted in mice. Scientists at Ohio State University in the US manipulated a natural cellular process to increase the levels of two proteins used by …
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday criticized China for engaging in a “clear and intensified pattern of intimidating its neighbors” amid renewed Chinese forays into India, while demanding that Beijing also engage in dialogue with the United States. Dalai Lama. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed to a tightening …
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WASHINGTON DC: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (POT) has congratulated Indian astronomers on the discovery of one of the most distant Star galaxies in the universe estimated to be 9.3 billion light-years distant from land. Speaking about the achievement to ANI on Tuesday, NASA described this discovery as an …
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It is important to promote the “sinicization” of Tibetan Buddhism and build an “impregnable fortress” to maintain stability in Tibet, President Xi Jinping said on Saturday. Xi added that it was necessary to strengthen the border defense and border security of the Tibet Autonomous Region (RAT), which borders India and …
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