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A U.S. military plane that brought back Indian immigrants on February 5, 2025. The U.S. said that they had been found to be staying in the country illegally. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States on Monday (May 19, 2025) announced that steps are being taken to impose visa restrictions on “owners, executives, and…
Iran launched retaliatory missile strikes on Israel into Saturday (June 14, 2025) morning, killing at least three people and wounding dozens, after a series of blistering Israeli attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear program and its armed forces. Israel’s assault used warplanes, as well as drones smuggled into the country in advance, to assault key facilities…
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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar speaks at the Asia Society after the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level week in New York. File photo: @DrSJaishankar X/ANI External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has warned of a “major food crisis” in the coming months, in addition to the already significant fertiliser shortages the world is witnessing due to…
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U.S. forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday (September 30, 2026), a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war. Iraqi security experts say the withdrawal —…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted two Indian nationals for allegedly smuggling and selling counterfeit Ozempic, the weight-loss drug, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday (September 29, 2026). One of the defendants, Swapnadip Roy, pleaded not guilty after being extradited from Italy…
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President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2026, after meeting with top executives of AI firms. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday (September 30, 2026) that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence and which…
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Supreme Court on Tuesday (September 29, 2026) let President Donald Trump’s administration continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal. The high court said it will hear arguments in…
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India and Japan signed the UNICORN naval radar agreement during Sanae Takaichi’s visit to India in July. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar TOKYO Japan on Tuesday (September 29, 2026) called on India to fast-track internal official processing of the agreement on the UNICORN (Unified Complex Radio Antenna) naval radar system that the two sides…
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‘It is time that the UN moved to enhance its transparency and remake its ties with the people of the world, and not just the governments’ | Photo Credit: AP As world leaders gathered in New York for the high-level week of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, they debated an increasingly urgent question: trust….
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SCO National Coordinators meet in Islamabad. MEA Jt Secy, Multilateral and Economic Relations, Alok Dimri, represented India. Photo: Pakistan MoFA. Pakistan announced that it would host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in August 2027, as an Indian delegation led by a senior MEA official attended a preparatory meeting in Islamabad—the first such official Indian…