A proposal to suspend H-1B and other temporary employment visas is under consideration by officials, but US President Donald Trump has not signed off on them, according to a newspaper report

While the US is being rocked by protests against the extra-judicial killing and mistreatment of minorities, the State Department's top diplomat for religious freedom has expressed concern about the treatment of religious minorities in India

As India reels from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank projects India's economy to shrink by 3.2 percent in the current fiscal year, the worst performance since 1979

The Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) has told the US government that it will pay for restoring Mahatma Gandhi's statue that was desecrated last week during the protests against police brutality

Indian-American community leader Ramesh Patel, who was a moving force behind the New York City's India Day Parade, has died of COVID-19, according to the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)

China has backed down on a ban on flights of US airlines after President Donald Trump's administration retaliated by threatening to block carriers from that country flying into the US

As India begins loosening the COVID-19 lockdown, its challenge is population density, but there is optimism because are good models within the country to deal with it, according to Soumya Swaminathan, Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

The UN General Assembly has adopted a coronavirus-responsive election procedure for the Security Council election in which India is assured on a non-permanent seat next month

Having with deft diplomacy successfully isolated Pakistan on the Kashmir issue at the UN and engineered India's unprecedented victory for the judgeship of the World Court over a Security Council permanent member, Syed Akbaruddin has wound up his term as India's Permanent Representative to the world body

While US President Donald Trump's diplomacy has run into turbulence almost everywhere, South Asia is one of the few areas where it has made some headway