WASHINGTON: The Senate has confirmed Indian-American flight test engineer Ravi Chaudhary as the Assistant Secretary of Defence for the US Air Force, one of the top civilian leadership positions in the Pentagon.The Senate on Wednesday voted 65-29 to confirm the former Air Force officer’s nomination with more than a dozen votes being cast by the […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexico has filed an appeal in a civil lawsuit against US-based gun manufacturers, it said on Wednesday, as it looks to crack down on the trafficking of weapons to powerful drug cartels. A US judge in September dismissed the $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold US gun makers responsible for facilitating the trafficking […]
WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Joe Biden’s close aide Eric Garcetti as the country’s next ambassador to India, filling the key diplomatic position that had been vacant for more than two years.The former Los Angeles mayor’s nomination was pending before the US Congress since July 2021 when he was nominated for the […]
A consortium of energy companies led by BP plans to cover a remote parcel of land in the Australian Outback as large as New York City with as many as 1,743 wind turbines, each nearly as tall as the Empire State Building, along with 10 million or so solar panels and more than 1,000 miles […]
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week after customers rushed to withdraw their deposits, US media reported Tuesday.The probe into the swift demise of the Californian lender is in its early stages, according to reports from the New York Times, Washington […]
WASHINGTON: The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom has announced a nuclear-powered submarine deal, a step aimed at countering the Chinese aggressive behavior in the Indo-Pacific region.The announcement was made after the leaders of the three countries attended a summit meeting in San Diego on Monday and asserted that the move is to keep […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden‘s biggest peacetime US defence budget request of $886 billion includes a 5.2% pay raise for troops and the largest allocation on record for research and development, with Russia’s war on Ukraine spurring demand for more spending on munitions. Biden’s request earmarks $842 billion for the Pentagon and $44 billion for defense-related […]
A recent bill that was introduced in the US House of Representatives by Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democrat-Illinois) and Larry Bucshon (Republican-Indiana), to ensure that the United States is properly utilising the employment-based visas currently allocated each year under existing federal immigration law, is being welcomed by thousands of Indians working in America. The Eliminating Backlogs Act […]
WATSONVILLE: Wet, miserable weather continued across huge swaths of California on Sunday as an atmospheric river that caused major flooding flowed eastward and makes way for another onslaught of rain and snow that could yet again pummel the beleaguered region as soon as Monday night.The National Weather Service said the next torrent could exacerbate the […]
WASHINGTON: Former US Vice President Mike Pence offered his most forceful rebuke to date of his one-time boss Donald Trump on Saturday, saying that history will hold him accountable for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.Pence was in the Capitol when thousands of Trump supporters breached the building in […]
