After China asked for a "closed consultations" in the UN Security Council to discuss revocation of the special status to Jammu and Kashmir, a US Congresswoman urged India and Pakistan to take this opportunity to protect human rights and promote peace in the region.
Article 370: US Congressman Tom Suozzi, who has been an ardent supporter of India, apologised to Indian Americans for shooting off a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Article 370. Suozzi had expressed concerns in the letter, written after Article 370 was scrapped by India.
The demand comes in the wake of US decision to roll back export incentives provided under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) from June 5.
A number of members of the US Congress raised with Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale the issue of India signing a deal with Russia for a nuclear submarine last week, official sources said on Saturday.
The resolution asks the President to certify that Pakistan has shown progress in arresting and prosecuting Haqqani Network senior leaders and mid-level operatives.
Saturday's meeting was a part of series of negotiations aimed at ending the deadlock, which directly affects the social services and wages of millions of government employees.
Trump wants to build a US-Mexico border wall and is seeking USD 5.2 billion in funding for the physical barrier which according to him is a must to prevent flow of illegal immigrants into the US.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa through which many Indians workers are employed in US companies.
"America's military superiority - the hard-power backbone of its global influence and national security - has eroded to a dangerous degree," the commission said.
Rashida Tlaib, a former state Representative, has won a crowded battle to replace former US Representative John Conyers Jr. in the Michigan's 13th Congressional District Democratic primary, The Detroit News reported.
The bill would provide USD 716 billion support in funding for national defense for fiscal year 2019.
This year's defense legislation, however, removes certain conditions – like action against Haqqani network or Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) -- as was the case in the past few years for disbursement of US aid to Pakistan.
"India would never want a relationship of dependence or one in which the US has to incur all costs," Aparna Pande, Director, Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Hudson Institute, a top American think-tank, told the US lawmakers.
Twitter was in no mood to spare Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the second day of US Congress hearing.
A group of more than 100 Indian IT professionals on H-1B visas met US lawmakers to get the country-specific quotas for permanent residency removed, saying the limitation resulted in massive green card backlogs for them.
The decision was taken after US Congress leaders met Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg late on Wednesday, Politico reported.
US President Donald Trump has proposed a point-based system for awarding green cards, preventing immigrants from sponsoring their extended families, and speeding up deportations.
Brad Sherman, Democratic Congressman from California, introduced the impeachment which was signed by Democrat Al Green.
US newspapers are disappointed to note that Facebook doesn’t always allow the reader to click through to the publisher’s website, denying the news website ad revenue from that reader.
Republican Mo Brooks told media that five people, including Scalise, were injured in the shooting as House Republicans were practicing for the upcoming congressional baseball game
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