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‘India may not travel to Pakistan for Champions Trophy’


New Delhi: Team India may not travel to Pakistan for the ICC Champions Trophy next year, and the venue for the event will likely get shifted or a hybrid model used, sources in the BCCI told IANS. They added that a bilateral series with the neighbours is “unlikely” in the near future. Pakistan Cricket Board...

IPL 2024: Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel help DC edge GT by 4 runs


New Delhi: Captain Rishabh Pant enthralled the home crowd by slamming an unbeaten 88 off 43 balls, while Axar Patel hit a 43-ball 66 and impact player Rasikh Salam picked a three-fer as Delhi Capitals edged Gujarat Titans by four runs in a thrilling run-fest to secure their fourth win of the tournament at...

US economic growth in first quarter falls short of expectations

Post Date: April 25, 2024

New York: The US economy expanded less than projected in the first three months of 2024 as exports and consumer spending declined, according to the Commerce Department. The first quarter saw the world's largest economy rise by 1.6 percent, according to the Commerce Department data, which is slightly lower than the economists' expectations of 2.4...

RBI bars Kotak Mahindra Bank from onboarding new customers online


Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited to stop onboarding of new customers through its online and mobile banking with immediate effect and also barred the bank from issuing fresh credit cards. The bank shall, however, continue to provide services to its existing customers, including its credit card customers,...

India and the US are always stronger working together, says Eric Garcetti

Post Date: April 25, 2024

New Delhi: Ambassador Eric Garcetti has said that climate action and green energy are some of the biggest pillars of the US-India alliance. In an interview to local media in India, the U.S. ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti said, If you told somebody 20 years ago that Indian companies would be creating jobs in...

Lahore Literary Festival 2024 to be held at Asia Society on April 27


New York: The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF), one of South Asia’s premier cultural events, is returning to Asia Society New York on April 27, exploring contemporary Pakistan through artists, writers, and other experts. The Lahore Literary Festival in New York 2024 is held in conjunction with the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) and presented in association...

USCIS announces open application period for the Citizenship and Integration Grant Program


Washington: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Wednesday announced the application period for the Citizenship and Integration Grant Program, which provides funding for citizenship preparation programs in communities across the country. The 16-year-old program, specifically Citizenship Instruction and Naturalization Application Services, will provide up to $10 million in grants to prepare legal immigrants for naturalization and...

India becomes the second-largest source country for new citizens in America

Post Date: April 25, 2024

Washington: A total of 65,960 Indians officially became US citizens, making India the second-largest source country for new citizens in America after Mexico, according to the latest Congressional report. An estimated 46 million foreign-born persons resided in the United States in 2022, approximately 14 per cent of the total US population of 333 million, according...

As Biden celebrates computer chip factories, voters wait for the promised production to start

Post Date: April 25, 2024

Washington: President Joe Biden has a great economic story to tell voters a decade from now, less so in 2024. On Thursday, the Democratic president reached upstate New York to celebrate Micron Technology’s plans to build a campus of computer chip factories made possible in part with government support. But the initial phase of the...