Embassy also said Indians now account for one of the top 10 US visa applicants & that 7,000,000 visitor visas (B1/B2) were issued to Indian citizens in 2023, the second-largest number of applications in the US Mission's history.
MEA also hits out at Canadian PM over his remarks of a 'tonal' shift in India-Canada ties following US indictment of Indian national in connection with alleged Pannun murder plot.
Christopher A. Wray's discussion with CBI director & officials focussed on sharing of expertise in investigation of technology-enabled crimes, says CBI statement.
In first public engagement between the countries after US said it had indicted Indian national on 'murder-for-hire' charges, Jon Finer met Jaishankar, NSA Doval and foreign secy Kwatra.
US has unsealed an indictment against an 'Indian govt employee' for alleged involvement in a 'plot to assassinate' US citizen — and designated terrorist in India — Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
Report by British daily 'FT' does not mention when the alleged incident occurred. It says US federal prosecutors have filed an indictment against at least one alleged perpetrator.
US-based Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, designated a terrorist by India, had issued a 'threat' against Air India flights. The 2 sides also discussed trade & space cooperation, among other things.
The two will discuss 'bilateral and global concerns' and developments in Indo-Pacific region with Indian counterparts S. Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh, says US State Department statement.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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