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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday called India a natural partner and invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington, turning the page at least rhetorically on friction despite new-found US warmth towards China.
One week after joining US President Donald Trump on a state visit to Beijing, Rubio – visiting both Asian powers for the first time – flew to New Delhi and met Modi for more than an hour, inviting the premier to visit the White House soon.
“The world’s oldest democracy in…

Lai Ka-ying suffers from motion sickness, cannot stand hot weather, was not a top student and did not speak Mandarin – all of which made the 43-year-old mother of three an unlikely pick as Hong Kong’s first astronaut.
But the Hong Kong-born payload specialist on China’s Shenzhou-23 mission, which is expected to blast off on Sunday night and head to the Tiangong space station, made it through almost two years of training.
“I held a ‘let’s give it a try’ attitude,” Lai said in interviews with…

Immigration attorney Rahul Reddy explains what H-1B visa holders applying for Green Cards should do. The new Green Card rule that applicants can't wait for their Green Card in the US and should go back to their country of origin has sent shockwaves, as 1.2 million legal immigrants are waiting for years to become permanent residents. The experts are waiting for more clarity on this as to how the USCIS will be executing this, while many said the new rule will be challenged in court, as it is against the law.Indian-origin immigration attorney Rahul Reddy explained that the rules did not change and the law dd not change but the way a Green Card application will be judged has changed.What USCIS says in the new ruleThe USCIS said people come to the US on temporary visas and then apply for a change of status to become permanent citizens. As they wait for this to happen, they continue to stay in the US. The USCIS said this should stop. A person who wants to become a permanent resident of ..

In parts of northern Manila, the sound of traffic never fully stops. Beneath elevated expressways where thousands of vehicles pass each day, there are narrow settlements built into the shadows of concrete pillars and drainage channels. Families cook meals there, children sleep there, laundry hangs beside cracked support beams, and daily life continues within metres of constant movement overhead.Some residents have spent years living underneath sections of motorway infrastructure in Manila because formal housing remains financially out of reach. What appears temporary from the outside has gradually turned into something more settled. Entire routines exist beneath the roads.Inside the hidden motorway settlement in Manila, Philippines
The settlement sits in spaces most people would normally pass without noticing. Concrete columns divide small areas into makeshift homes assembled from plywood, corrugated metal sheets, tarpaulin and salvaged timber. Some structures are low enough that adult..

When Marco Rubio was confirmed as US Secretary of State last year, fireworks of optimism went off in New Delhi. Given his years as a senator championing a pro-India, staunchly anti-China posture, policymakers anticipated an unprecedented alignment.
However, as Rubio arrives in India on Saturday for a four-day visit spanning Kolkata, Agra, Jaipur and New Delhi, he enters a relationship strained by transactional politics, structural deadlock and mounting strategic unease over Washington’s recent…

Kevin Warsh, whose broad criticism of current US ⁠Federal Reserve officials, playbook for rate cuts and ties to President Donald Trump elevated him past ⁠other contenders to lead the central bank, was sworn in as Fed leader on Friday at a pivotal moment for monetary policy and the American economy.
Warsh, wearing a dark suit and tie and accompanied by his wife, Jane Lauder, heiress to the Estee Lauder fortune, was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after a lengthy introduction by…