Washington, June 26 (IANS) US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that his department was expanding efforts to locate 450,000 migrant children he said were unaccounted for after being released to sponsors during the previous administration, adding that authorities had so far traced 147,000 of them.Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Mullin described the effort to locate vulnerable migrant children as the Department of Homeland Security’s to…
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Washington, June 6 (IANS) The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed a second detection of the New World Screwworm (NWS) in Texas, marking another case in the same county where the first US detection in decades was reported earlier this week. According to the USDA, the latest case was identified in a one-month-old calf in Zavala County, approximately 9 km from the first confirmed case reported on Wednesday, which involved a three-week-old calf.NWS is a serious parasitic pest that affe…
Washington, June 2 (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to highlight the removal of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro as one of the Trump administration’s most significant foreign policy achievements when he appears before lawmakers on Tuesday, according to prepared testimony obtained by IANS.The remarks, prepared for delivery before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs, offer one of the administration’s most detaile…
San Jose, May 11 (IANS) The Minister of State for External Affairs, Pabitra Margherita, held a bilateral meeting with Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister, Manuel Tovar, in San Jose, reaffirming India’s commitment to deepening ties with Costa Rica and enhancing cooperation across multiple sectors. The meeting marked the first official engagement for Tovar after assuming office as Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister. Discussions focused on strengthening bilateral cooperation and expanding engagement, gr…
San Jose, May 9 (IANS) Laura Fernandez was sworn in as the President of Costa Rica for a four-year term during a ceremony at the National Stadium in San Jose. Union Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita attended the swearing-in ceremony, held on Friday (Local time), and conveyed the India’s warm greetings to the newly elected President.”Honoured to be part of the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected President of Costa Rica. Conveyed warm greetings from the Presiden…
San Jose, May 8 (IANS) Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs and Textiles, Pabitra Margherita, arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Laura Virginia Fernandez Delgado on Friday, marking the start of a multi-nation diplomatic tour across Central America and the Caribbean aimed at strengthening India’s bilateral and development partnerships.The Embassy of India in Costa Rica posted on X: “Welcome to San Jose, Costa Rica. Ambassador Dr Sumi…
Washington, March 31 (IANS) Senior US lawmakers have pressed the Commerce Department to release detailed data on exports of American-made semi-automatic weapons, citing concerns that such sales are fuelling criminal violence abroad.In a letter to Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffrey Kessler, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Gregory Meeks said US firearm exports account for a significant share of crime guns traced globally.Data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobac…
Washington, March 5 (IANS) US farm trade strategy increasingly centres on major markets such as India and China, the Agriculture Department’s top trade official told lawmakers, highlighting new export opportunities even as legislators clashed over tariffs, food aid policy, and the country’s widening agricultural trade deficit.Appearing before the House Appropriations subcommittee overseeing agriculture funding on Wednesday (local time), Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs L…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) on Tuesday announced an Innovation Fund offering grants of 100,000 to 200,000 pounds to accelerate the green transition in low‑ and middle‑income countries by supporting small and growing enterprises using mobile and digital technologies.The fund will back digital solutions that expand clean energy access, circularity, digital inclusion and climate action in low- and middle-income countries across Africa, Cen…
Seoul, Feb 10 (IANS) Exports of large companies in South Korea rose approximately 10 per cent on-year in the fourth quarter, boosted by a rise in global semiconductor demand, government data showed on Tuesday.Outbound shipments from the top 917 of the country’s 70,223 exporting firms came to US$128.1 billion as of end-December, up 10.1 percent from a year ago, according to the data compiled by the Ministry of Data and Statistics, reports Yonhap news agency.The growth was primarily led by semicon…