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Houston, Jun 14: An Indian-American woman, Dhivya Suryadevara has been named the Chief Finance Officer of the US' largest automaker, General Motors. Suryadevara, currently the vice president of corporate finance, will succeed Chuck Stevens, the GM's present CFO, on September 1, the company said in a statement. Chennai-born Suryadevara, 39, has been GM's vice president of corporate finance since

London, Jun 13: A 28-year-old Indian-origin student in the UK has been racially attacked by a white man, shouting "Brexit, go back home" after the Briton made sexist remarks towards a hijab-clad woman, media reports said. Rickesh Advani, a political science student at Cambridge University, confronted the man for his comments towards the woman, only to be hit with an outburst of racial abuse

New Delhi, Jun 13: Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's brother and PML-N chief Shehbaz Sharif has asked India to resume peace talkswith Islamabad, saying the Singapore summit between the US and North Korea should set a good precedent for both the bickering neighbours to follow. Marking an epoch in the history of the decades-long tense relationship between the US and North Korea

Singapore, Jun 12: U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged on Tuesday to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula while Washington committed to provide security guarantees for its old enemy. But a joint statement signed at the end of their historic summit in Singapore gave few details on how either goal would be achieved. "President Trump

Singapore, Jun 12: US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met for the first time and shook hands here on Tuesday, kicking off their history-making summit aimed at normalising bilateral ties and complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. Trump and Kim met at Capella Singapore hotel in Singapore's Sentosa island after months of diplomatic twists and turns. The two men

Vienna, Jun 11: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has vowed a crackdown on what he termed as “radical Islam” and announced that his government would shut down seven mosques and could expel dozens of foreign-funded imams from the country. According to reports, at least one of the mosques the government will close is said to be linked to Turkish nationalists, and the six others are run by a group

President Donald Trump has taken a swipe at India along with the world's other top economies and accused New Delhi of charging 100 percent tariff on some of the US' goods, as he threatened to cut trade ties with countries who are robbing America. Trump made the remarks in Canada's Quebec City where he was attending the G7 summit that ended in farce after he abruptly rejected the text of a

New Delhi, Jun 11: Nirav Modi, the billionaire jeweller at the heart of a more than $2 billion fraud case, has fled to the UK, where he is claiming political asylum, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing Indian and British officials. Britain's Home Office said it does not provide information on individual cases. Nirav Modi could not be contacted by Reuters for comment on the FT report

La Malbaiel, Jun 10: ashing out at the longtime U.S. ally and northern neighbor, President Donald Trump tweeted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “dishonest & weak” and that the U.S. was pulling back its endorsement of the G-7 summit’s communique in part because of what he called Mr. Trudeau’s “false statements” at a news conference. In an extraordinary set of tweets aboard Air Force

Qingdao, Jun 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here today on a two-day visit primarily to attend the annual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) which is likely to deliberate on several pressing global issues including future of Iran nuclear deal, the impact of US sanctions on Russia and situation in the Indo-Pacific region. It is Modi’s second visit to China in little over five