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September 14, 2026 3:13 PM

Manohar Lal celebrates Hindi Diwas with Indian diaspora in Houston, visits NASA’s Johnson Space Center

Union Minister for Power and Housing & Urban Affairs Manohar Lal engaged with the Indian diaspora and explored opportunities to deepen India-US cooperation in the space sector during a series of engagements in Houston on September 13, ahead of his participation in the G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial Meeting. The Minister is in Houston to participate in the three-day G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial Meeting from September 14 to 16, where Ministers and senior representatives of G20 members a...

September 11, 2026 5:21 PM

Manohar Lal to represent India at G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial Meeting in Houston

Union Minister for Power and Housing & Urban Affairs Manohar Lal will participate in the G20 Energy Ministerial Meeting in Houston, United States, from September 14 to 16, 2026, where Energy Ministers and senior representatives of G20 countries will deliberate on global energy security, affordability and resilient energy supply chains. The meeting is being hosted under the U.S. G20 Presidency and will focus on key challenges facing the global energy sector, including the need to ensure reli...

February 27, 2026 10:24 PM

Venezuelan oil sale proceeds no longer routed through Qatar, US energy secretary says

Proceeds from sales of Venezuelan oil are no longer being routed through a fund in Qatar and are going directly to accounts handled by the U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Friday. After U.S. forces captured and removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office in January, the U.S. has controlled the country's oil exports in a landmark deal between Caracas and Washington. The proceeds were initially deposited in an account in Qatar to protect it from se...

September 15, 2025 9:44 AM

‘Criminal will be prosecuted to fullest extent of law’: Trump vows justice for Indian national killed in Dallas

US President Donald Trump on Sunday vowed that the accused in the brutal murder of Indian national Chandra Nagamallaiah will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and charged with first-degree murder. According to local police, Chandra Nagamallaiah, 50, was attacked with a machete outside the Downtown Suites motel in east Dallas in the early hours of September 10. The attack, which occurred in front of the victim’s wife and child, reportedly followed an argument. In a post on Truth ...

August 25, 2025 11:41 AM

SpaceX postpones Starship test flight over ground system issue

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Sunday called off the launch of Starship's tenth mission from Texas over an issue at its launch site, delaying an attempt to achieve several long-sought development milestones missed due to past tests ending in early failures. The 232-foot(70.7-meter)-tall Super Heavy booster and its 171-foot(52-meter)-tall Starship upper half sat stacked on a launch mount at SpaceX's Starbase rocket facilities as it was being filled with propellant ahead of a liftoff time of 7:35 p.m. ET ...

July 15, 2025 11:59 AM

Texas flood death toll rises to 131 as new storms loom

The official tally of storm-related deaths across Texas rose to 131 on Monday as authorities warned of yet another round of heavy rains 10 days after a Hill Country flash flood that transformed the Guadalupe River into a killer torrent. A National Weather Service flood watch forecasting heavy downpours of up to half a foot of rain was posted until Tuesday morning for a wide swath of central Texas extending from the Rio Grande east to San Antonio and Austin. The advisory included Kerr County an...

July 9, 2025 4:18 PM

Are flash floods directly linked to climate change?

The catastrophic flash floods in Texas a couple of days earlier, triggered by extremely heavy rainfall, which caused over 100 deaths and widespread destruction, have once again raised a pressing question- are flash floods directly linked to climate change? Successive research by environmental agencies corroborates this, saying climate change is a significant factor in the increased risk, frequency and intensity of floods in several parts of the world. Research suggests human-caused climate chan...

January 3, 2025 8:49 AM

Texas man who backed Islamic State acted alone in New Orleans attack, FBI says

A U.S. Army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's Day revelers in New Orleans had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, but acted alone in the attack that killed at least 14 people, the FBI said on Thursday. The suspect, who the FBI said was shot dead at the scene after firing at police, has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texan who once served in Afghanistan. He drove from Houston to New Orleans on Dec. 31. On the morning of the attack, between 1:29 a.m. an...

September 9, 2024 9:23 AM

Rahul Gandhi is not Pappu, he is strategist with deep thinking: Congress leader Sam Pitroda

Congress leader Sam Pitroda, while addressing the Indian diaspora in Texas, said that his party leader Rahul Gandhi has a vision contrary to what BJP promotes and that he is not a "Pappu". Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress, Pitroda said that Gandhian thoughts, inclusion and diversity were at the core of his (Pitroda's) learning. "He (Rahul Gandhi) has a vision contrary to what BJP promotes by spending crores of rupees. I must tell you, he is no Pappu. He is highly educated, well-read, a stra...