Tag: Us President Donald Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump will meet Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday, a day after he joins Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the mega “Howdy Modi” event in Houston and will again hold a meeting with the Indian leader in New York on Tuesday, a senior official has said. Both the meetings with […]

Houston (Texas): India and the US are set to deepen their bilateral energy cooperation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi choosing Houston for his first stop, and the mega ‘Howdy Modi’ event that will see US President Donald Trump also attend in a rare gesture. Houston is known as the US’ oil and gas capital. The […]

Houston: Arriving in Houston for the ‘Howdy, Modi!’ rally, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had “tremendous respect for (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi.” After his Air Force One landed at the Ellington Air Force Base, Trump told reporters: “I’m very close to the folks from India, I love India, and I have a […]

New York: When posed with a question on the Kashmir clampdown during a joint presser with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, in an apparent sarcastic jibe US President Donald Trump asked the former that where did he find reporters like these? Khan and Trump met on Monday on the sidelines of the 74th UN General […]

New York: US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have signed a limited trade agreement, allowing Tokyo to bypass tariffs on Japanese made cars for the moment. During a bilateral meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly here on Wednesday, Trump and Abe signed the agreement they had reached during […]

Washington: China is facing their hardest time in decades in maintaining the economy and badly wants to have a trade deal with the US, President Donald Trump has said, ahead of the next round of trade negotiations between the two giant economies. China is having a hard time at this moment. And I think they’d […]

Washington: A top White House official found himself in the middle of a political storm after he indicated, only to walk back later, that President Donald Trump asked his administration to withhold nearly USD 400 million in military aid to Ukrainian to further his political interests. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s during […]

New York: While US President Donald Trump’s administration gave a reassurance that relations with India was a partnership and that it does not take a position on the revocation of Kashmir’s special constitutional status, India’s restrictions on communications and movement there have been criticised harshly by several members of US Congress. “When we see Indian […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his greetings to all celebrating Diwali, saying relations are “strengthened by sacred traditions”. In a caption to a video shared on his Twitter handle showing him lighting the lamp in the Oval Office (Diya) along with a group of Indian-Americans, Trump wrote: “As Diwali commences, @FLOTUS Melania […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump’s administration has officially proposed an 83 per cent increase in cost to become an American citizen, claiming that “current fees do not recover the full costs of providing adjudication and naturalization services”. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday held a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump and discussed with him bilateral and regional matters, including the Afghan peace process and the Kashmir issue, his office said. Khan conveyed that the release of Western hostages in Afghanistan was a positive development and Pakistan was happy […]

Miami: US President Donald Trump has slammed the Democrats and denounced the impeachment inquiry into him as a “witch hunt” during an election campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida. Trump made the remarks when he met his supporters at a jam-packed BB&T Center in Sunrise, which has a capacity of around 20,000 people, Efe news reported. […]

Hong Kong: US President Donald Trump has signed two bills that supports human rights and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, drawing angry objections from Beijing’s Foreign Ministry. The Human Rights and Democracy Act mandates an annual review, to check if Hong Kong has enough autonomy to justify its special status with the US, BBC reported. […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose harsh sanctions on Iraq after the war-torn country’s Parliament passed a resolution urging the government to expel American and other foreign troops. “If they do ask us to leave, if we don’t do it in a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like they’ve never […]

New Delhi: Tense relations between the United States and Iran worsened on Friday when the Trump administration killed Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy Chief of Iraq’s paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces in a targeted airstrike. After the attack, a series of tweets by US […]