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Hassan Rouhani hopes Joe Biden will return to Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, calls Donald Trump 'tyrant'

Tensions between Tehran and Washington escalated during Trump's time in office, appearing to almost reach breaking point after the US assas...

New rule calls for higher wages for H-1B visa holders

“The US Department of Labor is taking these steps to strengthen wage protections, address abuses in visa programs, and protect American wor...

Prefix '0' for all landline to mobile calls from January 15

Bharti Airtel on Wednesday informed customers that “effective January 15, it would be “mandatory to prefix `0’ before the mobile number whi...

U.S. tells European companies they face sanctions risk on Nord Stream 2 pipeline

The U.S. source said the State Department is expected to issue a report by Thursday or Friday on companies it believes are helping the Russ...

US House to vote on Donald Trump impeachment on Wednesday

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives would vote on the impeachment of outgoing President Donald Trump on Wednesday on charges...

Outgoing US Capitol Police chief says his effort to get help was thwarted: Paper

The former chief of the federal force, Steven Sund, told the Washington Post his supervisors were reluctant to take formal steps to put the...

Loyal to President Trump for years, manufacturing group now calls for his removal

The statement was the culmination of months of frustration in the organization over shortcomings in the Trump administration’s response to ...

Tejasvi Surya, Parliamentary Committee on IT member, call for review of intermediary guidelines after Twitter bans Trump

"This must be wake up call for all who don’t yet understand threat to our democracies by unregulated big tech companies. If they can do thi...

Jio's move to make off-net local calls free to have negligible Ebitda impact: Analysts

Jio said it would stop levying interconnect usage charges (IUC) for all domestic voice calls with the scrapping of such fees from January 1...

Anthony Fauci calls COVID-19 vaccine rollout in US as 'disappointing'

"We would have liked to have seen it run smoothly and have 20 million doses into people today by the end of 2020, which was the projection,...

Jio makes off-net domestic voice calls free from January 1

Jio, with over 406 million users compared with over 294 million for Bharti Airtel and under 272 million for Vi, was a net revenue gainer fr...

Prefix '0' for all landline-to-mobile calls from Jan 15: Ministry of Communications

“All fixed-to-mobile calls will be dialed with prefix ‘0’ from January 15, 2021, and there will be no change in the dialing plan from fixed...

US committed to Indo-Pacific strategy despite change of presidency, says outgoing NSA

“We’re not going to be pushed out of the Indo-Pacific region. We’re going to fight for a free and open Indo-Pacific region with all of our ...

Pompeo meets Afghan govt, Taliban negotiator; calls for reduction in violence

Pompeo visit to Doha comes in wake of a rocket attack in the capital of Kabul. Earlier on Saturday, 23 rockets struck various part of Kabul...

Covid-19 Fiasco: BRICS calls for reforming WHO

Chinese President Xi Jinping in his remarks noted that it was “important to step up international coordination and response, and share info...

Telecom has bright future, have full faith in professionalism of telcos: Outgoing TRAI chief R S Sharma

"Unlike some other sectors, the telecom sector has not suffered from lack of demand. It is shining and has an extremely good future. Everyo...

Average customer unlikely to pay for outgoing calls, says Jio

The Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator added that its new plan are offering up to 25 per cent more value than that of rivals.