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The top Democrat in the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, has written to President Donald Trump inviting him to give his State of the Union speech on February 4 amid the partisan impeachment battle. The annual speech would come during or soon after his trial in the Senate, where he is likely to be acquitted, the BBC reported on Friday. He was formally impeached by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Talking about the abrogation of Article 370, Modi said: "For 70 years, it was proving a big challenge that India has given a farewell to. It kept people away from th...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would discuss the tense situation in Kashmir with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when they meet at the G7 Summit in Fran...
The Trump administration Friday expressed doubts over Pakistan's intentions in arresting Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attack, saying his previous ...
09, Jul 2019, by : FnF Desk
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at India over tariffs imposed on American products. In a tweet, Trump said: "India has long had a field day putting Tariffs on American products. No longer acceptable!". Trump has repeatedly targetted India after the Centre imposed retaliatory tariffs on 28 US products.Read News
01, Jul 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
US President Donald Trump has said many North Koreans were literally in tears when he stepped into their country before his historic meeting with Kim Jong-un in the demilitarized zone dividing the peninsula. Read News
30, Jun 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Visiting US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met at Panmunjom, a border village at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), on Sunday. Trump also stepped into North Korean territory, the first time a sitting US president has ever set foot in the former enemy country.Read News
01, Jun 2019, by : Desk FnF
The shooting happened just after 4 pm (local time), when the gunman entered one of the buildings at the Virginia Beach municipal complex and "immediately began to indiscriminately fire on all of the victims," Cervera said.The wounded included a police officerRead News
27, Apr 2019, by : FnF Desk
some countries, sanctions begin by targeting officials who work in the ministries responsible for accepting the return of that country's nationals with escalation scenarios that target family members of those officials and potentially officials of other ministries and then other categories of applicants if initial sanctions do not prove effective at encouraging greater cooperation on removals by the targeted government,” the notification said.Read News
22, Mar 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Responding to a question on India's economic development in the last five years at a fortnightly news conference here, IMF communications director Gerry Rice Thursday said, "India has of course been one of the world's fastest growing large economies of late, with growth averaging about seven per cent over the past five years."Read News
American fugitive Edward Snowden's diminishing possibilities of remaining free to continue releasing information about secret US surveillance programs increasingly appear to hinge on Venezuela, which awaited word Monday on whether the former National Security Agency contractor would accept its offer of asylum and fly to the oil-rich country.
Americans have been at this sort of a crossroads often enough to recognize the right path. We understand that, while our laws may at times lag behind our best natures, in...
51 years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this chamber that "the Constitution makes us not rivals for power, but partners for progress.”"It is my task,” Oba...
Brazil — Glassy-eyed, rail-thin and filthy, hundreds of addicts emerged from doorways and alleys as dusk came to the once-grand Luz district in the heart of this city. ...
24, Dec 2012, by : FnF Desk
The survivors of a gun rampage in Tucson came to Washington in August with a simple message for the Obama administration: Do something — anything — to stop the violence.One was a nurse shopping for Brussels sprouts who rushed to do triage after then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) was shot outside a supermarket. Another was a woman struck three times while shielding her daughter Read News
17, Dec 2012, by : Uday Dandavate
My first reaction upon hearing about the shootout at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Connecticut was- The world needs the leadership of a Gandhi. and every individual needs to follow the curiosity of Buddha and Emperor Ashoka. Read News
25, Nov 2012, by : FnF Desk
That sensitivity to inequality has stuck with Obama throughout his rise in politics, from Chicago's South Side all the way to the White House. He remains largely a pragmatist in his approach to governing.Read News
15, Nov 2012, by : Jack Thomas
Here is a complete transcript of United States President Obama's news conference in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 14, 2012. Topics included the fiscal cliff, tax reform, the Petraeus scandal, immigration, the Benghazi attacks, Susan Rice, climate change and SyriaRead News
08, Nov 2012, by : FnF Desk
Mitt Romney was right about one thing. He was secretly taped back in May telling fund-raisers that half the country would support Barack Obama because they depend on the government for all or part of their income. Read News
07, Nov 2012, by : Ailsa Goodrick
America is a land of opportunity. But lately, for too many Americans, opportunity has not exactly come knocking. We've been mired in an economic slowdown that has left millions of our fellow citizens unemployed. Read News
by : Priti Prakash
Out of the three significant issues that majorly dot India China relations, NSG and BRI being the ot...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
Yesterday i.e. on 8th July 2019, the 106th birth anniversary of comrade late Shri Jyoti Basu was cel...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
