India's top diplomat to visit Washington for talks

E-Paper | June 08, 2026

India's top diplomat will visit Washington this week for talks with the new US administration, an Indian foreign ministry official said Sunday.

Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar is expected to discuss with American officials India's concerns over proposed US legislation that could make it harder for companies to replace American workers with those from India and other countries.

Also on the agenda during Jaishankar's four-day visit, which begins Tuesday, is safety for foreigners following a Kansas City bar shooting that killed an Indian engineer and wounded another.

Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup did not give details Sunday, but news reports said Jaishankar would meet with US Acting Deputy Secretary of State Tom Shannon and other officials.

President Donald Trump has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the United States later this year.

US-India relations generally prospered under the Obama administration, but New Delhi will be hoping that Trump takes a tougher line on Pakistan, which receives substantial US aid.

However, Trump's strong stand against exporting US jobs has raised concerns in India, which has a thriving industry for American companies that offshore customer service call centres.

Shares of top Indian IT companies sank 2 per cent to 4pc on the Bombay Stock Exchange early this month in response to news of proposed US legislation that could make it harder for companies to replace American workers with those from countries like India.

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point of view

Feb 26, 2017 01:51pm

He will set agenda for PM visit, may be in May 2017.

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7th Sense

Feb 26, 2017 02:00pm

During election time Trump promised, if elected, India will have a true friend in White House. Minor issues can be resolved. India USA relations will further improve under Modi-Trump Leadership

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Saif zulFiqar

Feb 26, 2017 02:02pm

Trump is in a big problems with China, France, Sweden, Germany, Muslim countries, local and foreign media and more. India should forget about H 1B visas. Trump is not in a position to help India as he has won the elections on no more H 1B visas for foreigners. He won't make jobless Americans more angry.

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saudagar

Feb 26, 2017 02:16pm

@Saif zulFiqar sincerely admire your warm feelings for prosperous india , 130 crore indians are well capable to care for mother india . thanks anyway !

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M. Emad

Feb 26, 2017 02:15pm

India's top diplomat Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar just finished his 2-day Bangladesh tour (23-24 February) to discuss bilateral issues and future Defence treaty.

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Jaydeep

Feb 26, 2017 02:36pm

@Saif zulFiqar Don't worry about us , The Americans and rest of the world are investing in India. Plus we were not close to being banned by the Americans.

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CHACHA

Feb 26, 2017 02:42pm

@SAIF ZULFIQAR don't worry about indian.if we got job in america then we can got job in any where because of our talent.

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salim Langra

Feb 26, 2017 02:43pm

The issue of skilled foreign workers and HIB visas is not a new one. Revoking them in theory should be easy for the US government. That they are still there highlights the real world; the US is massively short of skilled manpower and cannot do without foreign workers. Expect no change.

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Sympathiser

Feb 26, 2017 02:48pm

Very difficult to speculate... Wait and watch

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Just sayin...

Feb 26, 2017 02:51pm

I am sure there are "other things" that are also going to be discussed.

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CHACHA

Feb 26, 2017 02:56pm

Welldone india

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Kumar

Feb 26, 2017 02:58pm

I contradict with the article stating India is for American call centers, there are more people employed in software development and R&D than Call center and BPO in India. If no H1B then more outsourcing to India as there are not many job age people in USA. Most of the people voted to Trump are from manufacturing background who lost to chinese exporters.

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INDIAN GUY

Feb 26, 2017 03:05pm

The BJP led foreign policy has not worked at all recently, especially the weird way in which they set out to isolate Pakistan, announcing the success which never happened. Russia's inching towards Pakistan will be assured by unnecessary cosying to USA which will never leave it's ally, Pakistan.

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SID

Feb 26, 2017 03:05pm

@Saif zulFiqar Thanks for your concern. However Indians can get job anywhere in the world thanks to the talent. Just yesterday Global times ( Chinese Govt mouthpiece ) warned their Govt not to ignore Indian talents anymore particularly in R&D sector .

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N.S

Feb 26, 2017 03:13pm

@Kumar Its funny that, Indians are a huge percentage of IT industry, but their contribution to research and new ideas, is ZERO, Zilch. India, never devised any new programming language, or any operating system, new architectural paradigms or algorithms. Indian IT industry is all about low-skilled service sector, back offices and a large pool of code coolies, call center jobs.

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Feb 26, 2017 03:19pm

Appreciate how Indian Government takes the issues concerning their citizens residing in other countries ....which should be more important. Within a day of the killing of an Indian their diplomat is on his way to discuss the security of Indians ...while Foreign Minister has already spoken about it over phone .

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Rajesh

Feb 26, 2017 03:24pm

@N.S Someone once said, "ignorance is bliss".... if you understand what I mean..

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Pure Ind

Feb 26, 2017 03:27pm

@N.S for the sake of argument your point is noted.. but how does it make ur people look better, finding faults in neighbors house doesnt set my house in order!!

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Gautam ( Netherlands)

Feb 26, 2017 03:31pm

@N.S Every thing you have pointed out is true and accurate. We Indians should be able to come to that expectations. Thanks and very best wishes in all your choicest endeavour Sir !

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Saif zulfiqar

Feb 26, 2017 03:53pm

@CHACHA, If you are so confident that Indian can get job anywhere, then why you foreign secretary has gone to Washington to see Amercans.

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Feb 26, 2017 03:55pm

Where else can he go and what else can he do?

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Ridic

Feb 26, 2017 03:55pm

@N.S. if you did some research, you would have known...just to name a few...J sharp, J++, kojo/IDE, syntax basis,wireless communication, email, hotmail, fibre optics, calculuos..I could go on. Code coolies you say?..just google Tech company CEOs in US..havent even mentioned space research yet..Good luck with your mindset!

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Downunderd

Feb 26, 2017 03:57pm

@N.S Guess where the zeroe that you mentioned was invented? So far the Indian companies may not have done all that you mentioned, but check overseas Indian's contribution in all fields. Now with new leadership in place, it is only a matter of time before things change.

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Pure Ind

Feb 26, 2017 04:00pm

@Saif zulfiqar its about business interests which is mutual benefits,

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Amigo.

Feb 26, 2017 04:07pm

America & China not reliable.

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nikus

Feb 26, 2017 04:07pm

@Saif zulfiqar There are other issues as well. USA wants India's co-operation in defence, which India may agree this time.If Trump stops H1B, the company which uses H1B will, offsoar the project to India. Already EU and Canada is inviting Indian techies.

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kevin

Feb 26, 2017 04:10pm

@Saif zulFiqar Don't worry about Indians. Banning Indian talent is good for India. Also highly talented Indians have plenty of opportunities all over India.

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kevin

Feb 26, 2017 04:13pm

@Saif zulfiqar Because so many Indian multinational companies are operating in America. In fact Silicon valley is literally take over by Indians. These indian companies are putting pressure on govt. You understand now.

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kevin

Feb 26, 2017 04:12pm

@N.S Still there are lot of Indians.

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Herrold Denis (US)

Feb 26, 2017 04:17pm

@Saif zulfiqar Probably the confusion is because of insufficient information about the exact issue. Countries like Cannada and Mexico have offered India to shift IT businesses from US to their countries. I feel proud that our Government is taking interest in our wellbeing and safety .

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N.S

Feb 26, 2017 04:14pm

@Ridic Truly one 'system' that is invented in India and still going strong is the 'Caste System'...no escaping from it.

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Ind

Feb 26, 2017 04:19pm

will US also push India to stop current terrorism in Pakistan

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shafi

Feb 26, 2017 04:26pm

@N.S How about Gupta SQL? Sun Microsystem? Webex? Pentium Chip? and do you want a 1000 more?

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Zakfronpak

Feb 26, 2017 04:30pm

@INDIAN GUY Pak is losing its allies left right and centre. Russia will never leave India. India is still a big arms importer. China has close to 70billion trade and US close to 100b. UAE,Saudi and Qatar and Iran are already moving closer to India. India has more or less successfully isolated Pak.

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India

Feb 26, 2017 04:29pm

@N.S Do you know how you can make use of big data? If not you can silently vacate the premises.

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Hemant

Feb 26, 2017 04:32pm

@Amigo. "America & China not reliable." Are you from india or Pakistan!! Are you reliable? How you count reliability of entire country? I am sure india is reliable, and has great check and balance within the society that ensure to take out any extereme with decisive force by people and not by Military. It does not mean incidence does not happen but at least there is a correction against such incidence.

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kevin

Feb 26, 2017 04:35pm

See how Govt. of India is concerned for its citizens. Already our external affairs minster contacted American administration besides Indian think tank constantly pressuring American administration. Now high profile diplomat directly going for meeting.

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Hemant

Feb 26, 2017 04:36pm

@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad Oh you seems to have missed his visit to China jest few days back!! Go and check out before commenting. Yes for discussing about Modi's visit he has to be in USA and not anywhere else!

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Feb 26, 2017 04:36pm

Trump is true friend

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Feb 26, 2017 04:39pm

Trump will help Indian IT companies to reinvent and help local American to improve skill sets and become employable.

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kevin

Feb 26, 2017 04:43pm

One way it is good for India. So many Indian talent will stay in India and work for India. All IT companies will start silicon valley in India and lot of jobs will be generated in India. Unfortunately lot of Chinese will close down their productions in China because trump is going to introduce 40% border tax on imported goods mainly from China and also restrict imports. Again this will be favorable for India because companies will invest in American and millions of jobs will create and American will required highly talented professionals and they will outsource from India. This is win win situation for India.

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kerala

Feb 26, 2017 04:44pm

@Saif zulFiqar You are missing the point here. Indian IT MNC like Infosys companies are at USA. These Indian companies are hiring Indians with H1B visas. So this problem affects both the owners &workers. Indian MNCs will shift to other developed countries and work from there, with the same employees. We Indians do business for profit. And USA is not ready now with experienced skilled IT professionals. Bangalore hosts many american freshers as trainees now .But if US become harsh, we are ready for playing harsher by completely stopping IT foreign professionals to come here. When companies do own by Indians, America has to bend rules for India.

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Saif Zulfiqar

Feb 26, 2017 04:53pm

@Kk, You Indians don't want to face the realities.

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Zik

Feb 26, 2017 05:06pm

Kudos to the world's greatest democracy on reaching out to other democracies like USA.

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kevin

Feb 26, 2017 05:08pm

Canada , Mexico and UK are already invite Indian companies to shift their base. They are giving red carpet welcome to India companies. If we can make silocon valley into Indian valley we can make it any where.

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Kumar

Feb 26, 2017 05:12pm

You can expect a few big announcements.

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Saif zulfiqar

Feb 26, 2017 05:14pm

@kevin, Indian companies should not miss this chance. They should take it without wasting any time.

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Maxx

Feb 26, 2017 05:24pm

@kevin The proportion of Indian-founded startups in Silicon Valley startups has increased from 7% to 15.5% from 1999 to 2012 even though Indians make up just 6% of the Valley's working population.

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RiZo

Feb 26, 2017 05:28pm

@7th Sense two of the same kind always get along nicely. No surprise.

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Mohan

Feb 26, 2017 05:40pm

@N.S do you know who invented USB? Ajoy Pandit. Can you imagine digital life without USB? That is just one Indian constitution to IT. Relax and focus on what you can contribute.

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Maxx

Feb 26, 2017 05:49pm

@Mohan What does it take to do some Google search. Bhatt was just in project management, a marketing person, not an inventor. As to who was individually behind the: Socket design Cable design Signalling (Jeff Morris ) Protocol (Jeff Morris ) IC design Chipset integration Driver creation OS integration (individuals @ Microsoft, IBM, …) Project management (Ajay Bhatt) Testing

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abdul rehman

Feb 26, 2017 05:53pm

@N.S : Indians are a huge percentage of IT industry, but their contribution to research and new ideas, is ZERO, Funny you would say that. EVEN the concept of the number ZERO is from India.

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Sher khan

Feb 26, 2017 05:58pm

@7th Sense - yes Trump said but Mr Trump also said America First, and he wants all jobs go to Americans.

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giri

Feb 26, 2017 06:09pm

@N.S : When will Pakistanis start doing such so called low skilled work? Let us see if you can do such work.

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last word

Feb 26, 2017 06:23pm

Jai Shankar is a seasoned diplomat who had a successful trip to China recently which was applauded by Chinese official media. But his visit to US is going to be a difficult one as he will be seeking diluting of H1B visas rules for the country and a tougher stance against Pakistan. It remains to be seen whether Trump would give a special status to India or not but for the time being it looks improbable.

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nikus

Feb 26, 2017 06:37pm

@Maxx Have you checked the Intel advertizement in youtube? Check it before commenting.

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Harmony-1©

Feb 26, 2017 06:39pm

@Abdul Rehman - Zero was invented by Babylonians. Do some search first. Google is a good source!

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Deep

Feb 26, 2017 06:49pm

Trump will realize in a very short time that the US cannot function effectively without Indian talent

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nikus

Feb 26, 2017 06:50pm

@Harmony-1© oh really !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Manju

Feb 26, 2017 06:51pm

How many of you forgot even Obama came up with the issues of H1B during his election campaign.Then cam the recession and the only country that was unaffected(India) saw the rise in demand and glory.Almost very Indian has atleast one direct relative working or had worked in US.By the way Trump did not put a "ban" on H1B he just increased the fees for applying to it so that most talented ones only make it to US.This is a negotiations nothing much to be effected.Industry giants like Google,P epsico and Microsoft with Indian origin CEOs will have an impact on US policies for sure.

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GAUTAM

Feb 26, 2017 06:55pm

@ LAST WORD Sir please , he is not going there to seek tougher stand on Pakistan !!! Indian IT Companies have already started working on Chnge in Business Model. They already have presence in other countries and they will shift their business to those Countries. All these Companies are listed on NASDAQ . Now with US money they will be executing orders from US sitting in other countries till US can independently do it through their own engineers and stop giving business to Indian Companies. By that time new President will occupy White House.

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mshan

Feb 26, 2017 07:03pm

India should stop begging other countries and do what is right for them just like America is doing what is right for their interests

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Harmony-1©

Feb 26, 2017 07:08pm

@Nikus - Why not check as I said? Get a reality check!

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Apache_indian

Feb 26, 2017 07:11pm

@salim Langra, I agree. I work as an independent software consultant in the US. People like me will be a big beneficiary if H1b visas were reduced as it will drive up demand for developers and consultants. However, I do feel that it will cause a tremendous problems for companies as wages will sky rocket. To combat that they will end up moving their entire operations directly to India or countries with friendly visa regimes.

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truth

Feb 26, 2017 07:29pm

@Saif zulFiqar America does not have skilled local talents to fill the jobs and thus would require talented foreigners (immigrants) to fill these jobs. That is a fact. Trump mantra of creating cadillac jobs for Americans is far fetched and no corporation would be ready to invest in America because of high labor costs unless the American Govt. provide tax subsides which in turn increase deficits. HI visa will continue to be issued by Govt. but at slower rate in IT sectors.

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SID

Feb 26, 2017 07:39pm

@Harmony-1© Zero was not invented by Babylonians. They themselves got it from Sumerians. However it was Indian mathematicians who made ZERO a number & made where it stands today . In 628 AD, a Hindu astronomer and mathematician named Brahmagupta developed a symbol for zero — a dot underneath numbers. He also developed mathematical operations using zero, wrote rules for reaching zero through addition and subtraction, and the results of using zero in equations. This was the first time in the world that zero was recognized as a number of its own, as both an idea and a symbol.

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JAy shah

Feb 26, 2017 08:04pm

US workforce is at disadvantage and the misuse of H1B needs to be STOP. It is a replacement program of US workforce with cheap labor from India. The curret bill will address a portion of this issue.

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Robert

Feb 26, 2017 08:34pm

@N.S That is absolutely false. Yes, there are some at lower levels but a very large level of IT workers are in the middle level technical management with job titles as Managers, Directors, Principal Scientists, Group Leaders, VP, etc.and a few in the top management. A few top managers are well known such as CEOs of Microsoft, Google, and Master Card.

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KHANM

Feb 26, 2017 09:39pm

@point of view you won't be around in may

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KHANM

Feb 26, 2017 09:36pm

@Robert play your cards right and you can make it to the top!

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Prakash

Feb 26, 2017 09:38pm

@N.S My dear friend, Indian IT industry is $ 140 B (alomost half of Pak GDP put together) in exports with avg EBITDA of 18%, highest for any mature industry - with about 30-40 lakhs employees. Do you still feel its low cost services?

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TAMZA

Feb 26, 2017 09:42pm

India's great economy - deoendent on the slave labor of H1B code coolies?

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nikus

Feb 26, 2017 09:42pm

@Harmony-1© I am not like madressa educated like you. I am software architect at HPE R&D at Bangalore office and have 6 patents in my name. HP CEO Leo Apotheker(then) came to our campus and acknowledged it.

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Kevin

Feb 26, 2017 09:41pm

I wish Trump does the same as promised. I am from India on H1b visa and teach here. The reason for this situations rests on some greedy American companies and Indian IT companies who misused H1b. Now it is payback time. The reason why I support Trump's H1b policy is that it will strengthen Indian ITs by diversifying their markets and any return of talent can create new promising start ups like Snap deal. Snap Deal is a startup of an Indian youngster who was denied H1B and now competes with Amazon in India.

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TAMZA

Feb 26, 2017 09:46pm

@Ridic indians are CEOs for the same reason some wonen are CEOs - to make diversity stats look good

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Siddhartha S

Feb 26, 2017 09:43pm

@N.S Sir/Madam, thou art terribly uninformed about the R&D contributions of Indians in general, and of Indian software industry in particular. Not only have western software and hardware giants established JVs in India for R&D purposes over the past decades, but the IT industry in these countries (specifically in the USA) has a huge number of Indians contributing to their state-of-the-art R&D development.

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Harmony-1©

Feb 26, 2017 09:55pm

@SID - Babylonians and Sumerians were using it before Indians. Yes, Indians developed its use but the credit of invention goes to predecessors.

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Raja Farhat Abbas

Feb 26, 2017 10:06pm

@saudagar ..You Indians never cease to preach to us on almost every issue we have,whats the matter now with one Pakistani giving his opinion ?.

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Feb 26, 2017 10:18pm

@N.S But we send spacecraft to Mars! Develop AAD on par with 4 other countries. We have cryogenic engine after 4 other countries. Our Indians are CEOs and engineers of Silicon Valley. Founder of SUN microsystems is an Indian. Our Indians are CEO of CitiBank Kiddo. I'm not boasting. Just saying we have a good pool of talented people just like other countries. And we are deploying the world's fastest supercomputer in June 2017 kiddo. That's all

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Feb 26, 2017 10:30pm

@Harmony-1© Indians found out, Persians and Arabs learn the concepts from India and translated and marketed as if they found it. Europeans wrote history that Babylonians found it. It's ok. When our nation finds her old glory as he used to be we'll disply our greatness in humility.

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hyderabadi

Feb 26, 2017 10:38pm

@N.S Wow, big words! Let me set some facts straight for you buddy... 1. Randomized Algorithms conceived by Rajeev Motwani. His students started page rank and made google possible. 2. Raj Reddy - Turing Award winner who started the whole area of speech recognition. His books and his research is the founding block of everything including Alexa and Siri and any speech recognition system. 3. Sanjay Ghemawet - The person who came up with Hadoop Filesystem. Any company that processes petabytes of data uses hadoop to do data crunching. 5. Madhusudan, Kosaraju, Sanjeev Arora, etc. - They all contributed to algorithms in graph theory and understanding computational complexity. Strongly connected components in graph theory is such an important question in solving social network related issues! 4. Squid File proxy, Yum installation helper, Torch all written by Indians and refactored in Google SUmmer of Code. and these are just some people I can remember off the top of my head.

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SID

Feb 26, 2017 10:38pm

@Harmony-1© Apple didn't create the first smart phone. It was Simon, by IBM in 1992 . But Apple created the best smart phone . And if you today ask about smartphone, Apple name come first , not IBM . So is the history of ZERO.

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Zakir hussain

Feb 26, 2017 10:53pm

@Harmony-1© it would have been great if someone had done research on what itself have achieved personally before asking to others

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gknatarajan

Feb 26, 2017 11:20pm

there were interesting news items saying[1] japan trying to increase intake of indian i.t. specialists by giving work permits\greencards like u.s.. 2] england is planning to increaase visas\workpermits quotas to indians 3] china is trying to encourage some companies operting in u.s. with large no of indians to shift to china by offering incentives. u.s. loss will be somebody else gains! after all many countries are having shortage of manpower due to aging population and india is producing technologists second largest in the world! of course quality has to improve a lot? and current govt. is seized of the problems!and taking action!

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Mr Nirmal Kumar

Feb 27, 2017 01:14am

@N.S NS you need to do your research properly. Just as an example CA and Sun Microsystems were not set up by Pakistanis. You have no idea that is why you speak this way.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 01:44am

@point of view ... ... Trump has no interest in any pain in the neck bureaucrats. The Donald hates complainers. He will shift the FM down the hall as soon as he finds out the FM is a lecturer. Trump cares about American jobs, not Indian jobs. Trump and India might not be on the same page here. Mister All of the past will not necessarily conjoin with the future of IT. It is easier and smarter to ask American CEOs to talk with Trump's people on behalf of India. Mister Jaishankar is already assuming too much without having learned all the facts.

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Agni

Feb 27, 2017 02:14am

Haha...superb..

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 02:21am

@Kumar .... Make sense Kumar. Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and a hundred other American IT firms are not run by Indians. Indian workers are hardly the majority. Most are worried about keeping their jobs. Boston by itself has over 200 other colleges and universities including Harvard. All of them are filled to capacity with American students. Other cities like San Francisco/Oakland, and Raleigh, North Carolina and Washington DC have become IT hubs. The city of Raleigh has two major universities and Sprint and IBM campuses. San Francisco has Stanford. Boston has MIT. The first internet message was sent from UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) not the University of Bangalore if there is such a place.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 02:25am

@INDIAN GUY .... Pakistan is no ally of the United States, which Donald Trump will soon find out. He is a man who expects value for his money and has breached contracts in the development of his own businesses.

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Sher khan

Feb 27, 2017 02:26am

Now Mr Trump is in power, he means business for America, and if India FM is going to beg H1B, he is too late.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 02:33am

@Amigo. ..... ... India billionaires come and go, and they talk about China and America.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 02:45am

@Herrold Denis (US) .... Carlos Slim is one of the world's top ten richest men. He was ranked in FORBES as the world's richest man in 2013. His group owns the entire Mexican telecom business. Mexico is not expecting any big Indian startups.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 02:49am

@abdul rehman .... Ha Ha Ha. That's true.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 03:00am

@Harmony-1© .... No. Absolutely incorrect. The concept of zero was invented by Indian trades to do their accounting.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 03:17am

@Manju .... At the moment unemployment is 5% in America. What is the figure in India. That includes American women looking for work.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 03:22am

@Harmony-1© ..... Zero was not invented by the Babylonians. They may have craved something like zeros on mud scrolls or in stone, but the did not use a mathematical concept of zero as a starting point and ending point.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 03:30am

@GAUTAM ..... Oh my God! Inidianophobia is coming to the American worker. America is light years ahead of India in nano technology and will be for decades. Information Tech is communications based, and the world is already pretty well wired. The job curve for IT has flattened worldwide. India does not have universities that support nano technology.

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Cherokee Indian

Feb 27, 2017 03:35am

@Apache_indian .... Probably right.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 03:44am

@JAy shah .... India cannot rule the work without H1Bs . India would be in big trouble without American student visas. India's scientific knowledge has begun in foreign universities. India cannot advance in areas other than computer science without foreign universities. Without the state of Texas Indian agriculture would be in worse shape than it is now.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 03:50am

@Prakash ..... Legal and illegal gambling in the United States alone is a 140 billion dollar a year industry.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 03:59am

@Siddhartha S ..... India with one billion people was a good place for American telecom companies to have an entre for the last twenty five years.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 04:00am

@TAMZA ... .... Don't forget telemarketing coolies.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 04:06am

@truth .... Looks like American workers are creating 3D technology, nano technology and robotics technology behind India's back. Japanese and American robotics are linked. Chinese and American solar technology is linked. Information Technology is now more of a service industry than a product industry.

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A shah

Feb 27, 2017 04:09am

This is how superpowers deal with each other.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 04:21am

@GS ..... True. The mathematical concept of zero arrived in Baghdad from India during the Golden Age and was adopted by Muslim scholars.

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Alba

Feb 27, 2017 04:32am

@gknatarajan .... Every country competes with the United States. US universities are the finest in the world. They represent much of the best continuing scientific knowledge. American universities are the backbone of American industry. They stand alone. Young men and women from every country in the world want to attend them.

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skg

Feb 27, 2017 05:05am

@N.S It seems all the discoveries are done by Pakistan.

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skg

Feb 27, 2017 05:11am

@Harmony-1© Please you search again.

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nachiketa

Feb 27, 2017 06:14am

This is the beginning of rogue culture, be it middle East or proxy countries in South asia and above all China.

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nachiketa

Feb 27, 2017 06:14am

@Saif zulFiqar politics is an art of compromise. Wait and watch how modi and TRIMPhed will play it in global stage.

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Brijesh Kumar

Feb 27, 2017 06:49am

@N.S Do you know USB standard is developed by an Indian ???? Do you know the first web based email , hotmail, was built by Indian?

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mshan

Feb 27, 2017 07:10am

@Kk Yes true friend of nationalist patriotic Americans who like care first about America and Americans and not outsiders in the country as immigrents

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Fried Chillies

Feb 27, 2017 07:21am

@Saif zulfiqar to let it be known that trade is not a one way street

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ASN

Feb 27, 2017 07:45am

@harmony: in Albert Einstein's own words: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made".

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Sunilsm

Feb 27, 2017 07:46am

@TAMZA and ur whole eeconomy entirely dependent on the remittance from gulf states, and what do u think this remittance u r getting by doing high end jobs in gulf.. ?

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CRICKET LOVER

Feb 27, 2017 09:01am

Dear Indian friends, Pakistanis love to live in peace with you as a peaceful neighbour. We should isolate extremists on both ends by boycotting their false and negative statements against each other. Peace on LOC will further pave the way of friendship between the two. We must stop killing innocent people living across the borders.

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simple indian scientist

Feb 27, 2017 09:12am

@NS: What Indian have contributed to science!!! Yikes. My professor (a famous Indian scientist) has developed several algorithms that are used at the core of electronic chip design. In the field of design automation (using which electronics is created), a very large amount of fundamental science/technology is invented by Indians. Check top conferences such as Design Automation Conference or ICCAD or Internation Test Conference etc. over last 30-40 years and check the citations of important papers and you will realize what I am saying. These Indian professors have developed technology which is taught in the universities in China, Europe, USA. All electronic circuits/chips are designed using technologies in which several core algorithms are invented by Indians. Ditto for the area of computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc. Check top universities (MIT, Stanford, Caltech, UC Berkeley, Princeton, etc.) & see their Indian faculty what they have contributed.

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river

Feb 27, 2017 09:24am

@TAMZA 6 figure salaried coolies, get a education.

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SID

Feb 27, 2017 09:58am

@Alba But what about billions of trade which Americans company are seeking from India. India will spend $ 250 billion in next 10 years in defense sector alone. What about hundreds of Boeing aircraft which Indian aviation companies are ordering ? What about billions of dollar profit which Facebook raked in last quarter thanks to Reliance JIO free data offer ?? America is great thanks to its open business relationship & embracing best talent from the world. Yes as a President he should give more preference to American to save their job. But that should be rationale. It is obvious that American employee will ask for more salary than Indian IT engineer . The whole outsourcing business is based on cost cutting approach . If Trump policy will raise operating cost, companies will have no option rather move entire operation to India or other cheap but technical-able country to operate independently .

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SID

Feb 27, 2017 10:07am

@Alba First Microsoft is run by an Indian -American . Second these companies Apple, Amazon , Facebook all have their second largest R&D offices in India only after US. Tell me why ? Why not China, EU countries, Australia or those USA cities which you have mentioned ?

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arif

Feb 27, 2017 10:37am

@Saif zulFiqar every leader have the right to protect his own citizen. president trump doing the best for his country, not to appease china. you better think about your own country not to interfere others policy. he has been chosen as a leader by american not by pakistani or chinese. he is thousand times smarter than you and your leaders.

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Human first

Feb 27, 2017 10:46am

Very soon all the IT corporations will relocate to Pakistan thanks to CEPEC.

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TechScribe

Feb 27, 2017 11:31am

@N.S If Caste system is all that you want to look at you are missing the big picture.

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TechScribe

Feb 27, 2017 11:51am

@Alba You don't even have your facts right and you comment on a public forum. Microsoft's CEO is an Indian and so is Google's. There are three universities around Raleigh NCSU, Chapel Hill and Duke that are together referred to as the research triangle. Washington DC or even the state of Washington are no IT hubs. The first internet message was sent by Pentagon as ARPAnet was essentially a US defence project and it shared internet with the US universities.

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Your Name

Feb 27, 2017 12:01pm

@N.S India should perhaps learn from Pakistan,how to develop.Such a great and prosperous nation after all.

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Your Name

Feb 27, 2017 12:04pm

@N.S India should perhaps learn from Pakistan,how to develop.Such a great and prosperous nation after all.

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vikas

Feb 27, 2017 02:16pm

@point of view What research? This guy may never have heard of such terms. Second they never research and say things which they want to believe and keep repeating them.

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kevin

Feb 27, 2017 03:54pm

@TechScribe What about Indira Nooyi and otehrs.

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sectular world

Feb 27, 2017 04:07pm

@N.S you mean to say coding and maintenance flight scheduling done by Indian companies are low skilled job. I doubt your skill of your intelligence.

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Harmony-1©

Feb 27, 2017 04:07pm

@Nikus - Just how you have preconceived the idea that I'm "madressa educated", so have you about zero? And being "software architect" makes you history expert too!!!

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Harmony-1©

Feb 27, 2017 04:10pm

@SID - In my mind Samsung comes first, not Apple :) But I hope @Nikus and others who are still in denial learned something from you today!

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SID

Feb 27, 2017 05:16pm

@Harmony-1© Even it is Samsung , there is no IBM who invented 1st smart phone. New idea is good, but who implements it better takes the cake. Hence whenever concept of ZERO will come, it is India who used it as number comes to mind, not Sumerians .

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Harmony-1©

Feb 27, 2017 06:03pm

@SID - Likewise, English computer scientist Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the internet but the Americans developed it. It doesn't mean one should take it away from Sir Timothy :)

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uday bhat

Feb 27, 2017 06:27pm

@Saif zulfiqar Jobs is not the only thing that has to be discussed. Please note that there are may other things like defence, co-operation etc. Please don't exhibit your ignorance .

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Honest

Feb 27, 2017 07:47pm

@Saif zulFiqar Truth is US is already having a shortfall of IT professionals. If it intends to grow at 4% annually it needs more foreign IT workers..Trump is not foolish...over the last 10 years 80% of H1B visas was given to Indians...That is set to increase Now...This not my opinion but confirmed by Trumps transition team member Shalabh Kumar who is in India and could be US ambassador to India..soon. H1B visa Indians are employed mainly by Indian companies in US mainly Infosys & Tata and Wipro..

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ANIL SAHU

Feb 27, 2017 08:53pm

@Saif zulfiqar because we dont want to miss any chance to grow. if USA bans H1B india will survive beacause india deals with all countries not relying on one country

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Friend of khalistan

Feb 27, 2017 09:09pm

He looks like a peasant. Sorry to say. But appearance does matter in Washington. Washington has a very fine balancing act to play. Any concessions to Delhi that disturb Pakistan could lead to Pakistan lending less intelligence and military cooperation in Afghan theater. Truth is, the Modi government tried "isolating" Pakistan and it has completely failed.

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Friend of khalistan

Feb 27, 2017 09:11pm

@saudagar Apparently not since most qualified Indians prefer USA or UK over India

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R. Kannan

Feb 27, 2017 09:08pm

It is unlikely that India would bother about H1B visas. The US needs Indian software talent. Restrictions on the H1B would mean more jobs in India. It may affect some individuals but is irrelevant in the overall matters.

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Friend of khalistan

Feb 27, 2017 09:10pm

@Jaydeep You mean like your PM, who was not long ago banned by over 30 countries due to Gujrat Muslim genocide?

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Friend of khalistan

Feb 27, 2017 09:09pm

@Kumar Too many IRS scams coming from Indian call centers. It's become a plague!

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Feb 27, 2017 09:38pm

@Friend of khalistan Those 30 countries found themselves that they were wrong and therefore Modi gets special attention.

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Iqbal Ali

Feb 28, 2017 12:17am

@Saif zulFiqar Please don't worry about H1-B visas. the action will be more on the abusers of the H1-B visa and not every company.

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Gurpreet Singh

Feb 28, 2017 12:34am

@Friend of khalistan: Sir, your information is incorrect. The hold on Mr. Modi's visa was only in two countries - US & UK and not 30 countries as you said in your comment.

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OneHumanity

Feb 28, 2017 01:41am

US needs IT professionals and kicking H1 workers out will push US behind in technology. Trump will never do that.

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Mustafa

Feb 28, 2017 06:12am

US needs H1 workers desperately. Cutting their quota or, Trump style, shutting them down altogether, will hurt the USA the most.

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BHar

Feb 28, 2017 06:22am

@N.S India has not decided any new architecture etc etc etc? In your case, there is so much ignorance . The first Microsoft DOS system was bought from two Indian students for $50 thousand. Ever since, Microsoft has at least 15% Indian staff . The first Google algorithm was devised by an Indian professor. His widow is an angel financiar that sets up occasional seminars in Pakistan. . There are very good reasons why the head of Microsoft is Indian born. The same with Google Pakistan can do this - but it's skill sets are not present .

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De. Ramesh Sharma

Feb 28, 2017 07:04am

@abdul rehman How does it help Pakistan? Please do something constructive for Pakistan then ridiculing India as it will not get you anywhere. These are issues related to international arena not gali and mohalla fights.

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De. Ramesh Sharma

Feb 28, 2017 07:39am

@Sher khan You seems to know a lot more regarding how American domestic and foreign policy works. May be trump should hire you assist trump in how to govern USA.

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IMTIAZ ALI KHAN

Feb 28, 2017 07:49am

All my Indian family will say everything is perfect with India and all is bad with Pakistan. Pakistanis will try to defend and show our own strength and show the bad of India. Haa haaa.... The truth, the reality massive poverty rigs India/Pakistan both and too much hate can be visible here (Please my Indian family don't tell me about ration cards and to Pakistanis don't tell me about subsidies given by government.) Rise above this hate friends. Well done guys. Keep at it, it will take us no where, I guess we need more than a 7 decades to get rid of habit of carrying the past baggage. Politicians are doing a great job in fooling public. No, no, no to Donald and his hate agenda. All my Indian and Pakistani family lets say this together. Jai Hind! Pakistan Zindabad! Love, love and love to the Incredible India to which Pakistan is always and always will be a vital part, because it all started right in the Holy Sindh Pakistan for all my Indian and Pakistani family.

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well wisher

Feb 28, 2017 08:38am

as of now THE DAWN is a connecting platform between the civilians of India and Pakistan where their opinions are debated answered in the comments section... visualizing the feelings of the common people of both the neighbours... hope there will be a better understanding between both the govts... thanks DAWN..and let us flourish...

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D.K.PAMNANI

Feb 28, 2017 09:36am

If restrictions are imposed by USA. IT industry in India will grow and Indians will export it to USA.

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kevin

Feb 28, 2017 10:02am

@Friend of khalistan Ohhhh .. what are these 30 countries ? Mr. Modi visited 7 times USA. This is called good diplomacy. Mr. Modi know how to turn enemy to close friend. Next 15 years he will be our prime minister and we will be one of the most developed country in the world.

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kevin

Feb 28, 2017 10:06am

@Friend of khalistan CPEC... CEPC the game changer will change Paksitan into Chinese colony.

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kevin

Feb 28, 2017 10:11am

@Alba We have nos 12 Universities that reserching nono technology. Our next aim is to become super power in nano technology and many of my relatives are undergoing training into nano technology universities in Madras & Bangalore.

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Akif

Feb 28, 2017 11:23am

America doesn't need Pakistan anymore so they are with India now and when they won't need India, they will destroy India too like they are trying with Pakistan.

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Abdulla Hussain

Feb 28, 2017 12:48pm

@kevin: What is "nono technology" sir. 12 Universities offering nono technology.

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kevin

Feb 28, 2017 02:03pm

@Abdulla Hussain Don't be funny Mr. Hussain. 12 is most famous pioneer universities. there are hundreds of universities in India who is doing research in Nono technology. If you have doubt please google "Nano technology in India" you will get many many institutes pioneer in Nano technology. For your small brain after USA and China India is 3rd position in the world submitting research papers in Nano technology. I know you won't understand but still I hope you will google to find out the fact.

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SHJ

Feb 28, 2017 02:08pm

S. Jaishankar is a very capable diplomat. I wouldn't be surprised if he resolves the H1B visa worries himself.

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Blue knight

Feb 28, 2017 02:20pm

@shafi No use to list achievements for him.. it won't have any impact on him.. he is just burning with hate, forgetting that our ancestors are one and same.. Regarding caste system in India, it has loosened greatly and nobody asks your caste in any city. and caste system was not unique to India only but it is/was present everywhere in one form or other.

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Darshan

Feb 28, 2017 02:38pm

@Saif zulfiqar Under which category Indian get jobs is for high skilled labour. Like in IT or in research, yes it would hit India. But maybe it can be blessings in disguise too, if they contribute to Indian requirements...

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FiturMiya

Mar 01, 2017 02:37am

@7th Sense Trump also told PM Nawaz Sherif that Trump will be very happy to resolve Pakistan's unresolved issues. The ball is now in NS's court.

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