US President Joe Biden extended Holi wishes on Monday, emphasising that millions of people globally will join together to celebrate the festival, the arrival of Spring, with Gulal and vibrant colours.
Japan and the United States will also work on further steps to enhance their response capabilities, Kyodo reported. Tokyo had in 2022 decided to acquire the capability to strike enemy bases even under Japan's war-renouncing Constitution.
Former US President Donald Trump, continuing his winning streak in the race to the White House, registered victory in the Republican primaries in the state of Louisiana and Illinois on Saturday (local time), The Hill reported, citing Decision Desk HQ projections.
US President Joe Biden signed USD 1.2 trillion legislation into law on Saturday, averting the looming shutdown and completing the funding of federal agencies through the fiscal year, which ends September 30, CNN reported.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu updated the Israeli public on Wednesday about his recent conversation with US President Joe Biden, specifically his response to Biden's objections to the Israeli military entering the southern Gaza City of Rafah.
US State Secretary Antony Blinken has begun his Middle East tour and has arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, marking his first stop on this trip to discuss efforts to reach an "immediate ceasefire agreement" between Israel and Hamas, The New York Times reported.
Although the US Senate had previously greenlit a supplemental bill unlocking USD 60 billion in military aid for Ukraine, House Speaker Mike Johnson had withheld it from a floor vote.
The senior Biden administration official's statement came a few days after the Chinese military repeated its claim over the northeast state after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a visit here and launched development projects.
Donald Lu, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian affairs, said President Joe Biden's administration identified a series of "irregularities" in the conduct of the February 8 elections.
Emphasizing India as the 'mother of democracy', External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the upcoming 18th edition of national elections is the largest electoral logistics exercise that this planet has ever witnessed, with 968 million registered voters, 15 million election officials,
After farmers announced their Delhi Chalo protest march in the first week of February in Delhi, barricades were placed on both sides of the road below the flyover on the Ghazipur border, in a bid to stop farmers from rolling in tractors into the national capital during their protest.