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Jaishankar and Rubio (AP photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar late Tuesday met US secretary of state Marco Rubio in Washington against the backdrop of India and the United States recently finalising a long-pending trade deal, under which Washington agreed to cut tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent after nearly a…
Transactional Model Of Relationship NEW DELHI: The India-US trade deal allows both sides to get the relationship back on to an even keel, but whether it can lead to long-term stability in ties remains open to question.The importance of the agreement, even if conditional, cannot be overstated as it allows India and the US to…
RAIPUR: A woman who chooses to live separately from her husband and in-laws without valid and sufficient reason is not entitled to a maintenance allowance, Chhattisgarh high court has ruled, upholding the order of the Bilaspur family court.The judgment came on Jan 27 on a petition filed by the wife of a Bilaspur resident, challenging…
The fuel control switch locking mechanism has been at the centre of the investigation into the June 12 Ahmedabad crash MUMBAI: Checks carried out on the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounded in Bengaluru found its fuel control switch lock to be satisfactory, said the ministry of civil aviation on Tuesday, even as another AI…
Despite collecting a cess specifically for health, the Centre’s spending on health is now lower than it was before the cess was imposed, both as a share of the total budget and as a proportion of the GDP.Before the health cess was introduced in 2018, the allocation for health was 2.4% of total govt expenditure…
JAMMU: Peoples Conference MLA Sajad Lone’s amendments for restoration of Article 370, Article 35-A and J&K’s statehood in lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha’s address to the assembly’s budget session were rejected on Tuesday amid bedlam over several issues, mainly BJP’s demands for a National Law University (NLU) in Jammu.Sinha’s address at the start of the session on…
Kayla Nicole makes a controversial comment allegedly shading Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s relationship ahead of their wedding.(Image via Getty Images, Taylor Swift/Instagram) Travis Kelce’s ex girlfriend, Kayla Nicole, has been in the news ever since the Kansas City Chiefs’ star player went public with his high profile romance with Taylor Swift.While both Taylor Swift…
Walmart reached a market capitalization of over $1 trillion on Tuesday (February 3). This makes the American company the first retailer in the world to join an exclusive club of companies to reach a 13-figure valuation that mostly consists of technology companies like Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. The company has been riding on…
The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier (AP photo/File) A US Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone after it moved toward the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, US Central Command said on Tuesday. In an emailed statement to news agency AFP, the military said the drone “aggressively approached” the carrier with…
US trade representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday outlined the Trump administration’s rationale for imposing an 18% tariff on Indian goods, citing Washington’s large trade deficit with New Delhi.Greer said the US is working to formally finalise the trade agreement with India announced earlier this week and is in the process of putting the details on…
