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New Delhi: India on Thursday said it was assessing the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to block H1B visas on Indian nationals and industry but indicated its dismay over it saying people-to-people linkages and economic cooperation are an important dimension of ties between the two countries. In a huge blow to Indian IT professionals […]

New Delhi: India categorically said on Sunday that Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini in Nepal thereby defusing a controversy about Buddha’s birthplace after Nepal had responded to remarks attributed to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. Jaishankar had on Saturday talked about India’s moral leadership and how Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings are still relevant. […]

New Delhi: BJP MP Ashwani Vaishnav on Monday raised the issue of racial discrimination in the UK — the latest being about an incident at the Oxford University. The issue concerns Rashmi Samant, a 22-year-old student from Karnataka’s Udupi. She contested the elections for Presidency of Student Union and won. However, following some of her […]