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Ranchi: As many as 26 girls from the tribal hamlets of Khunti formally graduated from the US Consulate General Kolkata’s English Access Microscholarship programme at a ceremony held in Khunti’s Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya on Saturday. The English Access Microscholarship programme, funded by the regional English language office of the US Embassy in New Delhi and the US Consulate General Kolkata, is a two-year programme aimed at providing a foundation of English language skills to bright, economically disadvantaged children and youth from 13-20 years through after-school instruction a...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tunde Ajaja The United States Consulate General in Lagos said on Friday that visa applicants in the state and American citizens in Nigeria would now have a better experience following the renovation of its consular pavilion. Speaking during the opening of the pavilion, the US Consul General, Claire Pierangelo, noted that the renovated consular pavilion would provide a safe space for visa applicants to maintain social distance while waiting for their appointment. In a statement on Friday, she said the Consulate was working hard to reschedule the visa applicants that w...

Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, US Consulate, EducationUSA to hold webinar on higher education February 06, 2021 × The pandemic situation has brought an unprecedented disruption to the higher education system globally, thus daunting multiple short-term challenges especially to the student community. The ecosystem has been impacted significantly by the rapid spread of the coronavirus outbreak, creating uncertainty and unusual roadblocks such as travel restrictions, campus closures and many more challenging situations for the aspiring Indian students who wish to study abroad. Understanding...

Tributes paid to Norman Houston a `wonderful ambassador for Northern Ireland' Tributes have been paid to Norman Houston, who has passed away. Mr Houston was Northern Ireland’s former representative in Washington DC Marie Louise McConville 13 January, 2021 01:00 Northern Ireland’s former representative in Washington DC has been described as "a tireless advocate" for the north, following his death yesterday. Norman Houston, who was originally from Larne, Co Antrim, died yesterday at the age of 62. The father-of-two, who lived in Belfast, had sp...

© Getty Images Lost in the swirl of American post-election chaos, culminating in the appalling storming of the U.S. Capitol, and the reported major Russian cyber hacks was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo The U.S. Consulate General Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East (RFE) distantly located from Moscow, would be fully shuttered, while the other in centrally located Ekaterinburg, suspended. The cited staffing issues relate to the 2017 tit-for-tat downsizing of diplomatic personnel and missions in the U.S. and Russia, as well as related cost challenges. To be clear: This is a unilateral U.S. de...