‘Not Just About China’: US Over Technology Partnership With India

iCET, which is being billed as the “Next Big Thing” in the India-US relationship, was launched by national security advisors Jake Sullivan from the US and Ajit K Doval from India at the White House here on Tuesday.

dissipate. “By later in the day on Thursday it should be pretty much done, and all the … precipitation will be well downstream across parts of the South and where it will be mostly heavy rain,” Oravec said.

By late Wednesday morning, 2,300 US flights had been cancelled, including three-quarters of the flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and more than two-thirds at Dallas Love Field, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware.com. Dallas-Forth Worth International is American Airlines’ biggest hub, and Love Field is a major base for Southwest Airlines.

Cap reached for additional H-2B Visas for first half of FY-2023

Washington: US President Joe Biden believes that the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies, or iCET, is key for the two countries to create a democratic technology ecosystem, the White House has said.

Five Mounties charged over indigenous man’s death

Five members of Canada’s federal police force are facing charges in connection with the fatal arrest of an indigenous man nearly six years ago. Dale Culver died in police custody on 18 July 2017 at the age of 35.

The five officers are members of the Prince George Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The charges were filed by prosecutors in British Columbia.

Two of the Mounties are charged with manslaughter, while the other three are charged with obstructing justice.

“The President believes this initiative is key for the US and India to create a democratic technology ecosystem and reinforces our democratic values and our democratic institutions. So, we see this as an incredibly important initiative and a partnership that we have with India,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at her daily news conference.

New York : (IANS) The US has received sufficient number of applications to reach the cap for additional 18,216 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the first half of fiscal year (FY)-2023, the country’s federal agency for immigration services said on Wednesday. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services

No classified documents found in Biden’s beach house: Lawyer

(USCIS) in December had announced H-2B supplemental cap temporary final rule for employers seeking to petition additional workers at certain periods of the FY before September 15, 2023. Under this rule, the USCIS began accepting H-2B petitions increasing the cap by up to 64,716 additional H-2B non-immigrant visas for FY-2023. Of the 64,716 additional visas, 44,716 were available only for returning workers. The remaining 20,000 visas are set aside for nationals of Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, who are exempt from the returning worker requirement.

NFL player charged with rape before Super Bowl

Washington: (IANS) A lawyer for US President Joe Biden has said that no classified documents were found in the latter’s beach house in in Rehoboth, Delaware, during an FBI search of the property. Wednesday’s search was the latest in a series carried out at various locations, after classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center, an office space that Biden had used when he was Vice President, in Washington D.C. last November, which was not made public at the time, the BBC reported. More documents were discovered at another of Biden’s homes in Wilmington, Delaware, in searches conducted in December 2022 and last month. In a statement issued late Wednesday, Biden’s lawyer, Bob Bauer, said the search that lasted from 8.30 a.m. to 12 noon was “planned” with the President’s “full support”.

A player for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles has been charged with kidnapping and rape less than two weeks before the team is due to play in the Super Bowl.Joshua Sills, 25, an offensive guard for the team, was charged on Wednesday by prosecutors in Ohio.In 2019, he “engaged in sexual activity that was not consensual and held a victim against her will”, they say.The Eagles will play the Kansas City Chiefs for the championship in Arizona on 12 February.