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Washington, Oct 22: The US on Tuesday said while it supports India's development agenda behind scrapping special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution, it was concerned over the current situation in the Valley. It said it was closely monitoring the situation in Jammu and Kashmir following India's decision to scrap special status and divide the state into two Union

Ahmedabad, Oct 19: Considered as one of the biggest ever simultaneous chases in the US and India, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is hunting for an Indian fugitive, Bhadresh Kumar Patel, for the past four years. Patel, who hails from Viramgam in Ahmedabad, figures in the FBI's top 10 list of most wanted fugitives and carries an award of $100,000. FBI considers Patel as a cold-blooded

Islamabad, Oct 18: Pakistan blacklisted and expelled the Asia coordinator of global press freedom group the Committee to Protect Journalists, the group's executive director said Friday. Joel Simon called the expulsion of Steven Butler "baffling" and "a slap in the face" to those concerned about press freedom in Pakistan. Butler was refused entry at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore

Islamabad, Oct 18: Backed by longtime ally China, Pakistan is confident it will avert blacklisting over terrorism financing by a global watchdog on Friday but it will not be completely off the hook until it proves it is genuinely severing ties with Islamist militants, officials and analysts said. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) last year placed Pakistan on a grey list of countries with

Mexico City, Oct 17: In a first, Mexico's migration authorities deported 311 Indians, including a woman, from various parts of the country amidst its stepped up efforts to check people illegally crossing its borders following pressure from the US. According to a press release issued by the National Migration Institute (INM) on Wednesday, the Indian nationals, who did not have a condition of

Washington, Oct 16: The White House is warning Chinese shipping companies against turning off their ships’ transponders to hide Iranian oil shipments in violation of US sanctions, two senior administration officials said. “We’ve been messaging very heavily to the shipping companies, you don’t want to do this, it’s not worth it,” said one official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Washington, Oct 16: It is important for India to keep fiscal deficit in check, even though its revenue projections look optimistic, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund or IMF Gita Gopinath has said. As against India's real growth rate of 6.8 per cent in 2018, the IMF in its latest World Economic Outlook, released on Tuesday, projected the country's growth rate at 6.1 per cent in

Washington, Oct 15: It's the day Indian space scientists and Chandrayaan-2 enthusiasts had been waiting for. The US space agency NASA had promised hope of some news on the Vikram front by Tuesday after its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) flyby over the site where Indian lunar lander might have landed. Has the Indian moon lander Vikram been found or not is a question that the US space agency

Paris, Oct 15: Pakistan is on the verge of strong action by the international terror financing watchdog FATF and the country may be put in the ''Dark Grey'' list, the last warning to improve. Officials attending the ongoing plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said as per indications, Pakistan will be isolated by all members for not doing enough. Pakistan is on the verge of strong

Stockholm, Oct 14: Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics jointly with his wife Esther Duflo and another economist Michael Kremer, is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Banerjee, born in 1961 in Mumbai, bagged the award for his "experimental approach to alleviating