US Vice President JD Vance called out the European leaders for criminalising free speech and hammered Donald Trump’s longstanding demand that European nations spend more on their defense.At the Munich security conference, Vance said, “I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted…
Trump prioritises Americans’ safety: Officials on Pannun plot NEW DELHI: President Donald Trump prioritises nothing more than the safety of every American, said senior Trump administration officials in first remarks on the foiled murder-for-hire plot against US national and India-designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The Biden administration had indicted an Indian govt official for orchestrating…
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI: In a significant diplomatic engagement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with US President Donald Trump today, marking one of the earliest high-level interactions of the Trump administration. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor emphasized the importance of this meeting, highlighting its strategic implications for India-US relations.“It’s fairly significant that our…
The Associated Press was blocked from an event in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, following disputes over the agency using the Gulf of Mexico instead of the Gulf of America. Earlier, President Donald Trump announced that February 9 would be the first “Gulf of America Day,” a move that came after…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters at his weekly news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) A wave of grassroots activism is shaking up the Democratic caucus in Congress. Frustration is mounting among progressive organizers and Democratic voters, who are demanding stronger resistance to…
A US judge has issued an emergency order barring Elon Musk‘s government reform team from accessing personal and financial data of millions of Americans stored at the treasury department, court documents revealed on Saturday.The order prohibited treasury officials from granting access to payment systems and sensitive financial records to “all political appointees, special government employees,…
US President Donald Trump WASHINGTON: A US-funded transgender clinic in Hyderabad is among the thousands of programs fed into the “woodchipper” as Donald Trump’s MAGA minions led by Elon Musk gutted USAID, the US government’s main foreign aid agency, summarily firing most of 10,000 plus work force in the US and overseas. Long festering resentment…
US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) employees have been directed to remove all pronouns from emails and other applications in an email sent to all staff members, NPR reported.The email was sent in response to executive orders from the Trump administration, including one titled “Defending women from gender ideology and extremism and…
NEW DELHI: US authorities doubled down on the deportation of 104 Indian nationals with the border patrol chief releasing a video that showed Indian nationals, handcuffed and shackled, being hustled into a C-17 military aircraft.Asked why a military aircraft was used to deport Indians, a US embassy spokesperson, without going into details of the flight,…
Panama President Jose Raul Mulino (Agencies) Panama on Thursday formally pulled out of China’s ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure program in a move seen as part of the effort to iron out differences with the Donald Trump-led US government.The Trump government was hostile towards the South American nation, citing Beijing’s influence on the Panama Canal.President…
