Showing posts with label India-US. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Coronavirus: India part of initiative on integrating science into response

Current Affairs
India is a piece of a US-drove worldwide activity to share data on coordinating science into coronavirus reaction, as indicated by a White House proclamation.
Other than the US and India, the UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea are a piece of the activity. The subsequent telephone call by the science pastors and boss guides of these nations was hung on Wednesday and it was met by the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Dr Kelvin Droegemeier.
"Following the primary (phone call) a week ago, we'll keep progressing successive logical discretion," the White House said in the announcement.
During the subsequent telephone call, members upheld endeavors to make accessible COVID-19 (coronavirus maladies) important friend surveyed distributions, information, and related research in PubMed Central and other freely available stores right away.
The nations under the activity likewise consented to make accessible auspicious information and distributions for tending to developing irresistible ailment episodes.
Taking note of that man-made reasoning (AI) can be utilized to sort out and incorporate certain information and data to assist this procedure, the members attested that to guarantee openness, in a perfect world, information ought to be scattered in machine and comprehensible arrangements, with expansive rights for re-use and optional investigations.

As per the White House, AI instruments and investigations ought to likewise be made freely accessible in a convenient way, the members said....Read More

Monday, July 22, 2019

US Congressman apologises for Trump's 'embarrassing' remark on Kashmir

International News

An influential Democratic Congressman on Tuesday apologised to India's US envoy for President Donald Trump's "embarrassing" remarks on Kashmir, while several others came out in support of New Delhi's established stand against any third-party role on the issue.
"I just apologized to Indian Ambassador Harsh Shringla for Trump's amateurish and embarrassing mistake," Congressman Brad Sherman tweeted hours after Trump's stunning claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought his mediation or arbitration efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue.
India quickly rejected his claims.
For the past 70 years, India has consistently resisted any third-party mediation proposal, and for over a decade now, the US has been reiterating that Kashmir is a bilateral issue.
"Everyone who knows anything about foreign policy in South Asia knows that #India consistently opposes third-party mediation re Kashmir. Everyone knows PM Modi would never suggest such a thing (sic)," tweeted Sherman, who has been closely following the development in South Asia for past few decades.
"Trump's statement is amateurish and delusional. And embarrassing, said Sherman who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on Asia, the Pacific and Non-Proliferation.

 Later in the evening, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells in a tweet said that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan. "While Kashmir is a bilateral issue for both parties to discuss, the Trump administration welcomes Pakistan and India sitting down and the United States stands ready to assist," she tweeted...Read More