Tag: America

The family said in an online fundraiser on gofundme.com: "As immigrants to America, they worked tirelessly for 18 years to achieve safety, security, and community for themselves and their families."

The braking system has now put the Italian car maker in troubled waters as it is forced to recall almost 23,555 cars for the same. The number is said to constitute almost every car sold in North America since 2005.

A bill was tabled by the Republican senators in the US Senate demanding "deeper investigation" into the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan and sanctions on those who assisted in driving out the Ashraf Ghani-led regime.

Biden said, There's nothing China or Russia would rather have, would want more in this competition than the United States to be bogged down another decade in Afghanistan

Bhubaneswar: An Odia pediatrician in the US has achieved a feat in an area of medical science  not many researchers had been successful in.  Dr Pinaki Panigrahi has hogged headlines in America by discovering an inexpensive method of treatment to prevent Sepsis- a deadly infection that kills around 60,000 kids every year. As reported in […]

Bhubaneswar: Not only Odisha, Akshaya Tritiya, the agrarian festival of Odisha, was also celebrated far away from the country in the America. The Odisha Culture Centre (OCC) organized the event, where Houston-based Consul General from India Anupam Roy attended as chief guest and laid the foundation stone for a proposed Jagannath temple. The temple would […]

Bhubaneswar/Malkangiri: The entire Bonda community in Odisha’s Malkangiri district is on cloud nine after Dambaru Sisa, the 33-year-old BJD MLA from Chitrakonda assembly seat in the district belonging to the particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) has got an invitation from the United States of America (USA) to attend a leadership programme.

San Fransico: The destructive California wildfires have so far killed at least 74 people with over 1,000 reported missing, authorities said. Butte County Sheriff and Coroner Kory Honea said on Friday evening that the number of people missing due to Northern California’s Camp Fire, deemed as the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s […]

Las Vegas: Amid the growing debate over whether electronic voting machines (EVMs) are hackable or not, elections officials in the US are worried over the increasing “information warfare” as mid-term polls loom. According to a CNN report, at the annual “Def Con hacker convention” here over the weekend, state and local election officials who attended […]

London: Lung cancer mortality rate among women is expected to increase by 43 per cent from 2015 to 2030, according to an analysis of data from 52 countries. The highest lung cancer mortality rates in 2030 are projected in Europe and Oceania, while the lowest lung cancer mortality rates in 2030 are projected in America […]

Seoul: North Korea on Friday once again threatened to attack the American island of Guam, where the US maintains a military base, following announcement of imminent joint naval drills between Washington and Seoul. In a statement published by North Korean state news agency KCNA, Pyongyang said it warned several times that it will counteract any […]

Tehran: A top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed that the country possesses the “father of all bombs” which overshadows the most powerful non-nuclear ordnance of the US. The bomb was developed under a special request of the IRGC, the corps’ Aerospace Force commander, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said in an […]

New Delhi: Two hundred Indian students of the University of Houston have been marooned in floods in the wake of tropical storm Harvey causing heavy rains and flooding in America’s fourth largest city. Two Indian students are in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday. “@CGHoust […]

New York: America’s most celebrated circus Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus has staged its final performance in New York, as emotional performers, and wistful crowd-goers bid farewell to an institution in US live entertainment. The circus gave the final performance titled “The Greatest Show on Earth” to a sold-out crowd at Nassau Coliseum […]

Washington: With the World Trade Organisation ruling in Mexico’s favour, allowing it to impose trade sanctions worth $163 million a year against the US, the Trump administration lost its first trade battle with the neighbouring nation. The WTO on Tuesday said that’s how much money Mexico has lost from the US unfairly penalising Mexican tuna, […]