Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) The United States recorded its largest year-to-year decline in the violent crime rate in nearly nine decades in 2025, with murders and robberies falling sharply, according… Continue reading US violent crime posts record fall: FBI
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the United Arab Emirates’ National Security Advisor, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, discussed Iran, Lebanon and security in… Continue reading Rubio, UAE security chief discuss Iran
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) The United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court’s president and a senior trial lawyer, widening the Trump administration’s campaign against the tribunal and threatening… Continue reading US sanctions ICC chief, vows wider campaign
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) US law enforcement agencies recorded as many as 189 anti-Sikh and 32 anti-Hindu hate crime offences in 2025, according to newly released FBI data that provide… Continue reading FBI data record 189 anti-Sikh, 32 anti-Hindu hate crime offences in 2025
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Indian-American educator Pia Dandiya has won the Democratic primary for Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, setting up a closely watched November contest that could determine control of… Continue reading Indian-American Pia Dandiya wins Democratic primary in Florida
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump cited India’s electoral system as a model for the United States as he renewed his demand for stricter voter identification rules and… Continue reading Trump cites India’s election system as model for stricter US voter ID rules
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) More than 50 House Democrats have raised concerns that the Trump administration’s critical minerals agreements could enrich politically connected families, expose American taxpayers to financial losses… Continue reading Trump’s minerals deals face conflict alarm
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) A regional conflict in which nuclear weapons are used locally and trigger a wider escalation poses a greater danger than a surprise mass attack on the… Continue reading Pentagon official warns of regional nuclear war
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) A group of 19 US lawmakers has slammed Meta’s election safeguards as inadequate, warning that its rollback of fact-checking and growing reliance on artificial intelligence could… Continue reading US lawmakers slam Meta’s election safeguards
Washington, Aug 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has honoured a 16-year-old California lifeguard at the White House for rescuing Nathaniel Rai from treacherous waves off the Santa Cruz coast.… Continue reading Trump honours teen who saved Nathaniel Rai
Yerevan, Aug 17 (IANS) Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh arrived in Yerevan for a two-day visit aimed at further strengthening India-Armenia defence and strategic cooperation. According to the Ministry of… Continue reading Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh arrives in Armenia to advance bilateral defence cooperation
Washington, Aug 17 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said Sunday (local time) that he has instructed the Pentagon chief to “substantially” reduce joint US-South Korea military exercises, noting that those… Continue reading Trump says he instructed Pentagon chief to ‘substantially’ reduce South Korea-US military drills
Tehran, Aug 17 (IANS) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran reached the recent peace memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States with “dignity” and “power,” while taking into consideration… Continue reading Iran’s president says peace MoU with US advanced with ‘dignity, power’
Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) Two Nepalese citizens were apprehended with undeclared gold and silver, by troops of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) along the India-Nepal border in West Bengal, officials… Continue reading Two Nepalese citizens held with gold and silver by SSB along border with India
Washington, Aug 17 (IANS) Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna, who has not ruled out a 2028 Presidential campaign, has said that Democrats need a new national economic project focused on workers,… Continue reading Ro Khanna sketches 2028 White House vision
