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COVID-19: Kuwait approves repatriation flights to India amid travel ban

10:40 pm August 6, 2020

Kuwait City: Kuwait has approved India’s request to run repatriation flights for citizens wishing to return home, even as the Gulf nation has imposed an indefinite travel ban on 31 “high-risk” coronavirus countries, including India, according to a media report on Thursday. Kuwait’s Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will operate the repatriation flights from August 10 […]

Irrespective of the winner of presidential polls, India-US relationship to remain strong

US stands with India against continued Chinese military aggression: Lawmaker

11:58 pm July 21, 2020

Washington: The US stands with its friends, partners, and allies like India against the continued Chinese military aggression, an influential lawmaker said on Tuesday. Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi’s remarks came as the US House of Representatives agreed to consider his bipartisan congressional resolution that urged China to work towards de-escalating the situation at the border with India through existing diplomatic mechanisms and not […]

Second executive arrested in Wirecard scandal in Germany

11:17 pm July 6, 2020

Frankfurt: Another executive with bankrupt payment company Wirecard has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of aggravated fraud, prosecutors said on Monday. The suspect, the head of a company subsidiary in Dubai, had returned to Germany to face proceedings. The arrest comes after former CEO Markus Braun was taken into custody on June 23 on charges of market manipulation and falsifying financial results and […]

Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

Pompeo tears into ‘rogue actor’ China for ‘escalating’ border tension with India

3:53 pm June 20, 2020

Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized the Chinese Army for “escalating” the border tension with India and militarizing the strategic South China Sea as he described the ruling Communist Party of China as a “rogue actor.” In a scathing attack on the Chinese government, the top American diplomat said that the Communist Party of China (CPC) wants to undo all the progress the free world has […]

Bomb threat by woman caller to airport in TN a hoax, say officials

Flight carrying 181 Indians from Dubai lands in Kochi

11:27 pm May 16, 2020

Kochi: An Air India Express flight carrying 181 stranded Indians from Dubai landed at the Cochin International Airport here on Saturday as part of the second phase of the Central government’s ambitious Vande Bharat Mission. This is the first evacuation of people of Kerala stranded in foreign soil in the second phase of Vande Bharat […]