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Aug232017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

President Trump has been urged to appoint US envoy to India on priority basis

USA

An influential US lawmaker has urged President Donald Trump to appoint America’s new ambassador to India on a priority basis, saying that Washington’s relation with New Delhi is of utmost importance. The position has been lying vacant since January 20 when Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. In June, the White House said that Kenneth I Juster, 62, a top economic aide of Trump and an expert on India, will be America’s new ambassador to India. “As the co-founder and former chairman of the Congressional Caucus on India, Indian issues and representing one of the largest Indian-American constituencies in Congress, the relationship between our two great nations is of the utmost importance to me and my constituencies. I urge you to make the appointment of a US amba...

Jun242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

President Donald Trump realises India has been ‘force for good’ in world

USA

On the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit, the Trump administration has dismissed reports that it has been ignoring India, saying President Donald Trump realizes that the country has been a “force for good” in the world and ties with it were important. “I think that it would be wrong to say that this administration has been ignoring or not focused on India,” a senior administration official told reporters ahead of the two-day Modi visit from June 25. The Prime Minister would meet President Donald Trump face-to-face for the first time at the White House on Monday. “I think that the US really appreciates India, and I think that President Trump realizes that India has been a force for good in the world and that it’s a relationship that’s important. And I think that will come ...

Jun142017 by AdminNo Comments

Top US politician Steve Scalise, aides shot in Virginia

USA

A gunman opened fire on Republican members of congress during a baseball practice near Washington early on Wednesday, wounding several people including senior Republican leader Steve Scalise, before being taken into custody, police and witnesses said. The gunman died later of his injuries, President Donald Trump announced at the White House. Lawmakers said the shooter, who was armed with a rifle, had exchanged fire with Capitol Hill police who were at the scene and was shot before being taken into custody. Scalise, the third most senior figure in the House of Representatives Republican leadership, was shot in the hip at the baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia. He was tended to by fellow lawmakers including Brad Wenstrup, an Ohio congressman who is a physician, before being tran...

Jun42017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

2 terrorist attacks shakes London, Van ploughs into pedestrians, One Died

UK

A van has run over pedestrians and there have been stabbings resulting in “multiple” casualties on Saturday night in the London Bridge area in what police are treating as “terrorist incidents”. Armed British police rushed to London Bridge after reports of the rogue vehicle, with one woman telling Reuters that she saw people who may have had their throats cut. As the nightmare struck London, several people were reported injured in two incidents --- on London Bridge and in nearby Borough Market. Transport for London said busy London Bridge station and two others were closed at the request of police. The incident comes less than three months after an attacker ran down people with a vehicle on Westminster Bridge, killing four, then stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament. Here are ...

Jun32017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Paris or no Paris, India is and will always be committed to climate protection: PM Modi

National, Russia

India is committed to protecting the climate, irrespective of the Paris agreement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here today but avoided a direct reference to the US withdrawing from the international deal. Addressing the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) here in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said India has traditionally been respecting the nature and desisted from exploiting it. “Paris or no Paris, our commitment to preserving the climate is for the sake of future generations,” Modi said while responding to a question about US President Donald Trump announcing withdrawal of the USA from the Climate Change deal. He said he had made the same comment in Germany three days back when “nobody’s comment had come”, an apparent reference to Trump’s a...

Jun32017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Elon Musk praise India’s aim to move to an all-electric fleet by 2030

National, Technology, USA

Tesla founder Elon Musk hailed India’s aim to move to an all-electric fleet by 2030, on a day when President Donald Trump said the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Tesla enthusiasts in India may indeed have much to look forward in the coming days, as Musk responded positively to a tweet from Anand Mahindra, who prodded him to bring his electric cars to this country. Musk welcoming India’s move comes close on the heels of the Canadian-American businessman announcing his resignation from all three positions on the Presidential Councils, over Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. “Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk tweeted, not hiding his dismay at the move. While he was upset with the US President, ...

Feb142017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Flynn resigns as Trump’s national security advisor

USA

The White House announced today that Michael Flynn has resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, amid escalating controversy over his contacts with Moscow. In his formal resignation letter, Flynn acknowledged that in the period leading up to Trump’s inauguration: “I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador.” Trump has named retired lieutenant general Joseph Kellogg, who was serving as a director on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as acting national security advisor, the White House said.

Feb132017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

North Korea claims New Nuclear-Capable Missile Test Successful

North Korea

North Korea said on Monday it had successfully test-fired a new type of medium- to long-range ballistic missile the previous day, claiming further advancement in a weapons programme it is pursuing in violation of United Nations resolutions. North Korea fired the ballistic missile on a high arc into the sea early on Sunday, the first test of US President Donald Trump’s vow to get tough on an isolated regime that tested nuclear devices and ballistic missiles last year at an unprecedented rate. The North’s state-run KCNA news agency said leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of the Pukguksong-2, a new type of strategic weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The United States, Japan and South Korea requested urgent UN Security Council consultations on the test, with a meet...

Feb132017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Thousands of Mexicans March for Dignity

Mexico

About 20,000 people staged a march through Mexico’s capital on Sunday demanding respect for their country and its migrants in the face of perceived hostility from the administration of US President Donald Trump. Many marchers carried Mexican flags and were dressed in white as a sign of unity and to signal the non-political nature of the march. The marchers protested Trump’s plans for a border wall and increased deportations of migrants. Trump has also pressured US corporations to provide jobs in the United States, not Mexico. Paulina Ortega carried a placard in English proclaiming: “We love Americans, we hate racism.” “This is a march for dignity,” she said. Mexicans have called for unity in facing the challenge posed by Trump’s policies, but the march featured almost as many ...

Feb72017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Trump Is Right to Acknowledge About American ‘Carnage’

Opinion

President Donald Trump drew bipartisan criticism when he defended Vladimir Putin against charges the Russian president was a killer, telling Bill O'Reilly Sunday, "We've got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country's so innocent?" Democrats and Republicans condemned Trump's remarks. But while critics attacked the president for drawing what they called a "moral equivalency" between the U.S. and Putin's Russia, what Trump said is unavoidably true: especially when it comes to war, America kills. So just how many foreigners has America killed over the course of its history? It’s a tricky question to answer. While the U.S. does a good job of tracking American casualties, it doesn’t do quite as well tallying up the casualties it incurs on its enemies. By using a variety of estimates,...