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19 Jun

Modi’s visit another chance to appreciate Indian-Americans: Congressman Frank Pallone

New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Congressman Frank Pallone, who founded the Congressional Caucus on India in 1993, has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US is another opportunity to appreciate Indian-Americans and their contributions to the community. "I am really looking forward to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington... Many years ago, I founded the India Caucus and we have seen a steady increase in activities between the US and India... shared values between the two countries like democracy, market economy," Pallone said in a video message shared by the Indian Embassy in the US. Pallone represents…

12 Apr

US monitoring rise in human rights abuses in India: Blinken

New Delhi: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the US is monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the South Asian nation's rights record, TRT World reported. "We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) and to that end, we are monitoring some recent concerning developments in India, including a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police and prison officials," Blinken said on Monday in a joint press briefing with US Defence Secretary Lloyd…

12 Dec

NASA satellite maps Antarctica ice sheets, sea ice, forests

Washington: NASA's satellite to track Earth's melting ice has revealed accurate first maps of Antarctica such that it can measure sea ice height to within an inch, the US sapace agency has said.Less than three months into its mission, the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is measuring the height of sea ice to within an inch, tracing the terrain of previously unmapped Antarctic valleys, surveying remote ice sheets, and peering through forest canopies and shallow coastal waters, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday. ICESat-2 was launched on September 15 with a three-year mission to understand Earth's ice…