The committee has previously summoned Facebook over the issue of political bias on the platform. India’s parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has summoned Facebook and Twitter officials on January 21 over the misuse of social media. The official agenda...
Lawlor wrote a letter to the Indian government in November raising concerns about Jesuit priest Stan Swamy’s arrest but hasn’t received any reply yet. On Friday United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor said that India doesn’t...
Green zone perimeter established in Washington DC and around 25,000 members of the National Guard are deployed. Update: US Defence officials stated that they fear an insider attack or threat from the service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s...
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein’s memo says executive orders will “change the course.”. On his first day in office, Joe Biden plans to sign a series of executive orders as an attempt to roll back several of...
Reintroduction of wage rule and rule requiring client companies to file H-1B Petitions Even though Trump will exit on January 20, his attacks on legal immigration through last minute regulations such as the ones above will take time to challenge, unravel and...
Gadkari says it would be a win-win situation if India and the United States cooperate over the processing of ethanol. During a virtual US-India Trade Mission webinar, India’s Minister of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari identified a list...
The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting conducts an international film festival every January. Minister Prakash Javadekar and several celebrities attended the inauguration. The 51st IFFI features 224 films and is being termed "hybrid," indicating that a limited participation will...
India's vaccination program is the biggest in the world, perhaps ever. As world deaths from Covid-19 reach the 2 million mark, India began its massive inoculation program today with the objective of inoculating over 300 million people in the country...
Checks of $1,400 will be issued on top of the $600 checks delivered by the last congressional stimulus legislation. President-elect Joe Biden revealed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package proposal on Thursday and stated that bold investment is required to jump-start...
A growing case against India’s top-rated English news channel now exposes a link to the ratings agency that’s also in the dock. Leaked WhatsApp messages between India’s most talked-about news anchor and a head of India’s only television ratings council...
