US House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that China will not isolate Taiwan by preventing US officials from travelling there. Pelosi, the first House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, said Wednesday in Taipei that the US commitment to democracy in the self-governing island and elsewhere “remains ironclad”.
Read MoreRBI Monetary Policy LIVE Updates: The Reserve Bank of India has hiked the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4 per cent with immediate effect. The RBI Monetary Policy Committee raised the policy repo rate by 90 basis points in May and June. RBI retained its economic growth projection at 7.2 per cent...
Read MoreA Russian court on Thursday found US basketball star Brittney Griner guilty of smuggling and storing drugs and sentenced her to nine years in prison. The court “found the defendant guilty” of smuggling and possessing “a significant amount of narcotics”, judge Anna Sotnikova told a court in the town of Khimki just outside Moscow....
Read MoreWith the central government set to recruit 10 lakh people over the next one-and-a-half years to fill up the nearly 9.79 lakh vacant posts across all ministries and departments, junior minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that all posts deemed abolished upon remaining vacant for more than 2-3 years may be...
Read MoreChina had threatened “serious consequences” if Pelosi landed in Taiwan, despite that the senior US politician met President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei on August 3. The visit left China humiliated and angry. It has already taken some severe steps against the island and may take more overt action, even a full-blown invasion, in the...
Read MoreForeign minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday discussed regional and global issues, including the Sri Lanka crisis and what the US described as Russia’s “brutal aggression” against Ukraine and its implications for global food security. The meeting took place in Cambodia on the sidelines of the Asean Regional...
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