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Elon Musk Responds To White House’s ‘ASMR’ Video Of Deportation Flight

February 19, 2025 admin

Washington DC: US President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk a video posted by the White House showing immigrants in shackles being prepared to board a deportation flight from Seattle. The footage shared by the White House on social media showed illegal immigrants being put in cuffs and shackles while being prepared to board a…

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Trump’s Blunt ‘No’ To Europe Can Change Everything

February 18, 2025 admin

It’s a new phase in the Ukraine war as the Trump administration moves to hold talks with Russia without the presence of Ukraine or Europe. The Saudis will be in the mediating role, and the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Trump’s Middle East special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, all…

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Top Sikh Body Slams US Authorities For Not Allowing Some Deportees To Wear Turban

February 16, 2025 admin

Chandigarh: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee on Sunday strongly condemned US authorities for allegedly not allowing Sikh deportees, who were part of the second batch of illegal Indian immigrants brought from America, to wear their turbans. The SGPC statement came after some visuals appeared on social media showing Sikh deportees without turbans while completing their…

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Opinion: Modi-Trump Summit: It's The Chemistry, Silly

February 14, 2025 admin

To the outside world, US President Donald Trump may come across as mercurial, transactional, and less dependable. For India, however, he has been a consistent ally, partly due to his great chemistry with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A meeting planned at short notice and with little time for back-channel negotiations has delivered a great deal…

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Chinese Spy Balloon That Flew Over US In 2023 Was Packed With American Technology: Report

February 12, 2025 admin

A Chinese spy balloon that passed over the United States last year was packed with American technology that could have enabled it to spy on Americans, Newsweek reported, citing sources with direct knowledge of a technical analysis conducted by the US military. The huge balloon with a large payload of electronics flew over the US…

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Scientists Cast Doubt On Famous US Groundhog’s Weather Forecasts

February 1, 2025 admin

Scientists have cast doubt on the reliability of America’s most celebrated rodent forecaster — whose apparent knack of predicting how long winter will last forms a hallowed tradition in the United States. Punxsutawney Phil, made famous by the 1993 film “Groundhog Day,” attracts thousands of onlookers every February 2 to the Pennsylvania town that he…

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A Record Number Of US Firms Are Leaving China

January 29, 2025 admin

At a time when the newly elected U.S. President, Donald Trump, is making a pitch to reshore manufacturing to America, its companies operating out of China are having second thoughts about what was considered a miracle economy. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Trump made a simple pitch that if companies…

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Drill, Baby, Drill: Will Trump’s ‘Emergency’ Plan To Make Oil Cheap Work?

January 28, 2025 admin

US President Donald Trump, on the very first day of assuming office, laid out a sweeping plan to maximise oil and gas production, including declaring a national energy emergency to speed the permitting of projects, rolling back environmental protections, suspending new federal offshore wind leasing proposals pending an environmental and economic review, and withdrawing the…

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Is Trump Serious About Annexing Canada? Or Is He Just Being Trump?

January 27, 2025 admin

Years ago, during my one and only trip to Pakistan to report on the 50th anniversary of independence for a Western media outlet, I had the pleasure of meeting some bright, articulate students at the famed Government College in Lahore. Feeling magnanimous (and admittedly swept by their genuine warmth), I decided to drop a bombshell…

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A Disruptive Trump Calls For Disruptive Measures

January 21, 2025 admin

The world is in an age of disruption, whether in politics, economy or technology. In any such era, uncertainty rises. Among nations, there will inevitably be winners and losers. Business as usual or maintaining a status quo may seem like a safe option, but it is not. Only nations that embrace the disruptions and are…

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