Images this week of PM Modi holding hands with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a summit hosted by China’s Xi Jinping seemed to confirm what many experts have already concluded – the US has stumbled in its effort to draw India into its diplomatic orbit.

A decorated Indian-American Amit Kshatriya has been named as NASA’s new ‘exploration-focussed’ associate administrator, the US space agency announced here.

The crash killed at least 17 people and injured 20 more, some critically, Portuguese authorities say. 

​The crash killed at least 17 people and injured 20 more, some critically, Portuguese authorities say.