US President-Elect Joe Biden named on Monday Bharat Ramamurti to be a deputy director of the National Economic Council with an important role in carrying out his campaign promises of banking and consumer reforms

The UN is only aware that one if the vehicles with its monitoring group in Kashmir was “hit by an unidentified object” and no one was hurt in the incident, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq

The US Congress has expressed concern over China's “aggression” along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) - the de facto border with India - and declared as “baseless” the territorial claims by Beijing in the Himalayas

Kamala Harris made history as the first Indian American and the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States when the electoral college affirmed her victory and that of Joe Biden as president in the bitterly fought election for the nation's leadership

Pakistan is 'marketing' Hindu and Christian women as “concubines” and “forced brides” to China, says a top US diplomat for religious freedom, Samuel Brownback

The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill - co-sponsored among others by three Indian American lawmakers and supporting a "stronger US-India partnership" - to establish several educational programmes and a foundation to promote the legacies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the two great champions of non-violence

Farmers in India have the right to demonstrate peacefully and authorities should allow them, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric

India has accused Pakistan of violating the spirit of a UN resolution it had itself sponsored by transferring the control of the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara to a non-Sikh body

Saying it accepts “all religions as true”,  India has called on the UN to take a stand against Hinduphobia and violent bigotry targeting Sikhism and Buddhism as well

Neera Tanden, who has been named US President-elect Joe Biden's budget chief, shares a common upbringing with Vice President-elec Kamala Harris – both were raised by single mothers who came from India and through their determination saw their daughters rise to positions of power exceeding the American dream