Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 A senior State Department official has assured that Washington continues to deal with India and Pakistan separately and sees the relationships as ‘quite different’, discounting apprehensions that a re-hyphenation may be happening. Briefing reporters on Wednesday (local time), the official said that on Kashmir, the US continues with its “long-standing policy...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 Image: X Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has made a historic $70 million donation to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) one of the largest gifts in the organisation’s history. The contribution will power UNCF’s bold $1 billion capital campaign, which aims to strengthen the...
New York: US President Donald Trump has accused the United Nations of orchestrating what he called a “triple sabotage” during his visit to the UN headquarters in New York for the 80th UN General Assembly session. Trump alleged three separate incidents — an escalator abruptly stopping while he and First Lady Melania Trump were on...
New York: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday stated that he believes India is “mostly” aligned with Kyiv in the ongoing conflict with Russia, offering a perspective that contrasts with US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks at the United Nations General Assembly. Speaking to Fox News on the sidelines of UNGA, Zelenskyy highlighted the importance...
Super Typhoon Ragasa, one of the most powerful storms of the year, has wreaked havoc across southern China and neighboring regions, forcing the evacuation of millions of residents. The storm, packing winds of nearly 200 km/h, has caused widespread disruption, flooding, and infrastructure damage as it lashes China, Taiwan, and the Philippines with relentless rain...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 Image: X (JLFLitfest) After winning the Booker for her much-acclaimed 2006 book, ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, Delhi-born author Kiran Desai has been shortlisted for Booker Prize 2025 for her book ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’. Desai moved to the US after her initial years of education in India. Desai started...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 The White House has signalled that physicians and medical residents could be exempted from the newly introduced $100,000 (₹88 lakh) surcharge on H-1B visa petitions, as per reports. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers reportedly told Bloomberg News that the proclamation signed by President Donald Trump “allows for potential exemptions, which can...
Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, is facing accusations that he sexually abused five of his children and stepchildren over a period dating back to the early 1990s, according to a New York Times investigation published Tuesday. The report suggests that these allegations may help explain why Elon Musk, who has...
A brief technical snag at the United Nations turned into a diplomatic flashpoint after an escalator abruptly halted just as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced the incident as ‘unacceptable,’ urging a formal inquiry to determine whether the stoppage was accidental or...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 Days after US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to significantly curtail the H-1B visa programme, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed to ‘amend its regulations’ governing the process. The DHS proposal seeks to scrap the existing lottery system and implement “a weighted selection process that would generally...