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India rejects US govt report on religious freedom

8:08 pm June 11, 2020

New Delhi: India on Thursday rejected a US government report that voiced concerns over alleged attacks and discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities in the country. “Our principled position remains that we see no locus standi for a foreign entity to pronounce on the state of our citizens’ constitutionally protected rights,” Spokesperson in the Ministry […]

Pompeo and Jaishankar discuss coordinated approach to COVID-19

3:12 pm April 1, 2020

Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke over phone to discuss a coordinated effort by India and the US to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic that has so far infected more than 850,000 people and claimed over 42,000 lives globally. Jaishankar spoke to Pompeo over phone on Tuesday. This […]

Xi said Sino-US relations were at a "critical juncture", CCTV said, adding that cooperation was mutually beneficial and "the only right choice." "I hope that the US will take substantive actions to improve Sino-US relations, and both sides can work together to strengthen cooperation in fighting the epidemic," he said. Some provinces, cities and companies in China have provided medical supplies and support to the US as well, Xi added.

Xi tells Trump China and US must ‘unite to fight virus’

4:33 pm March 27, 2020

Beijing: China and the United States should “unite to fight” the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the globe, said President Xi Jinping in a call with his US counterpart on Friday, according to state media. The two countries have clashed in recent weeks over the virus, but Xi told President Donald Trump that China […]

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

Ahead of Trump’s India visit, US senators raise human rights, religious freedom issues

2:25 pm February 13, 2020

Washington: Ahead of President Donald Trump’s maiden visit to India, four influential US senators, who described themselves as “longtime friends of India”, have sought an assessment of the human rights situation in Kashmir and religious freedom in the country, saying hundreds of Kashmiris remain in “preventive detention”. The bipartisan group of senators, in their letter […]

US expresses concern over religious freedom in India

2:27 pm February 6, 2020

Washington: The US has expressed concern over the current situation of religious freedom in India and raised the issue with Indian officials, a senior State Department official has said. The remarks came in the wake of widespread protests held across India against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The senior State Department official, on condition of […]

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