New York: The Donald Trump administration has threatened to revoke Harvard University's eligibility to enrol international students if it doesn't submit detailed records of its foreign students' “illegal and violent activities”. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Wednesday wrote a “scathing letter” demanding detailed...
London: A review of defence ties, with a particular focus on enhancing defence industry collaboration and boosting the 'Make in India' initiative, was on the agenda of the 24th India-UK Defence Consultative Group discussions here this week. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and his British...
Deir Al-Balah: Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight into Thursday killed at least 23 people, including a family of 10, local health officials said. The United Nations, meanwhile, raised alarm over the mounting impact of Israel's six-week-old blockade preventing all food and other supplies...
Beijing: A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday that the United States' 245 per cent tariff on certain products from China no longer makes economic sense. If the US continues to play the "tariff numbers game", it will pay no attention to it, according to...
Des Moines: A 30-year-old community service programme that sends young adults to work on projects across the US was the latest target of the Trump administration's campaign to slash government spending. AmeriCorps' National Civilian Community Corps informed volunteers Tuesday that they would exit the programme...
Washington: South Korea's Presidential front-runner Lee Jae-myung has ranked among US magazine Time's 100 most influential people of 2025, its website showed Wednesday. The magazine chose Lee, former chief of the Democratic Party, in the category of leaders, offering a brief story of challenges he...
Aden: The United States carried out extensive airstrikes against Houthi targets across Yemen Wednesday. US aircraft reportedly struck more than 50 Houthi sites across multiple provinces in the north, centre and west of Yemen, according to reports by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. The Houthis did not...
Yangon: India's humanitarian assistance to earthquake-hit Myanmar under Operation Brahma continued Wednesday as the next set of pre-fabricated office and housing units carried by the Indian Air Force C-17 plane arrived at Mandalay airport. The units were received by Defence Attache, Col. Jaswinder Gill and...
Islamabad: Pakistan's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Mohammad Sadiq, Wednesday arrived in Afghanistan's Kabul to discuss security and border issues. Sadiq, who is leading a delegation including military and intelligence officials, is attending the 7th session of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) in the backdrop...
Dhaka: Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch arrived in Bangladesh Wednesday to hold the Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) Thursday after a gap of 15 years. A Bangladesh foreign ministry spokesman said that the Director General of the South Asia Wing, Ishrat Jahan, welcomed Baloch upon arrival...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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