results are already having an impact in Texas The political fallout of the US midterm elections has begun to reshape immigration enforcement in Texas, with Houston Mayor John Whitmire signing an order directing city police to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.Whitmire said the move followed Democrats’ return to power in Texas for the first…
NEW DELHI: India is looking to attract at least three large semiconductor equipment makers and five major suppliers of chemicals and gases under Semicon 2.0. Union electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said he would judge the programme’s success by whether India could bring those companies in.He described the target as ambitious, saying the precision…
US-China agree to keep trade talks going China and the US have agreed to continue consultations to ensure stable and positive trade relations, local media Xinhua reported.The development comes as Washington pushes Beijing to fulfil the commitments made under the trade truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan…
Photo credit: Good Food Movement In 2018, Bibijaan Maulasaab Halemani brought together 14 women from her village in Karnataka with a common goal: to save traditional crop seeds that were disappearing from local farms. Eight years later, the small women’s collective has grown into a community-led agricultural initiative working across 30 villages, helping farmers revive…
NEW DELHI: Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw called on social media platforms to take greater responsibility for the content they carry, pressing them to explain how their algorithms work, protect children from harmful content and give users a better way to resolve complaints.Asked whether govt was considering withdrawing safe-harbour protection for social media companies,…
The United States is offering a reward of up to $20 million, along with possible relocation, for information about Iran’s nuclear programme, including its facilities, equipment and personnel, as diplomatic efforts continue to secure a deal to end the more than eight-month-old war.US Central Command (Centcom) announced the offer on Friday through a post on…
NEW DELHI: ONGC’s overseas investment arm ONGC Videsh (OVL) is exploring the possibility of securing operatorship rights for two Venezuelan oil projects – San Cristobal and PetroCarabobo — and is in advanced talks with the Venezuelan govt and US authorities.During an analyst call following its Q2 financial results, the company said the arrangement is likely…
US-China agree to keep trade talks going China and the US have agreed to continue consultations to ensure stable and positive trade relations, local media Xinhua reported.The development comes as Washington pushes Beijing to fulfil the commitments made under the trade truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan…
Indushekhar allegedly told investigators he had been ‘in conflict with’ his wife for nearly 20 years. BENGALURU: In a series of grisly murders committed over a 15-day period in late Oct, a 52-year-old cab driver allegedly killed his wife and six members of her extended family and dumped their bodies at four locations in Karnataka…
MUMBAI: RBI has proposed tighter rules for classifying gold-backed farm loans as priority sector lending (PSL), requiring banks to verify borrowers’ actual agricultural credit needs against the district scale of finance for the crop. Banks would also have to document field inspections, crop hypothecation and evidence of agricultural activity by landless cultivators failing which loans…
