NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday pointed to Union finance ministry report to target Centre on US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding claims to India.Congress leader Jairam Ramesh in a post on X accused the government of lying, emphasising that the seven projects listed in the finance ministry report have no connection to “voter turnout”.“None…
KOLKATA: Citing a forensic report that found no evidence of struggle at the spot where the RG Kar rape-murder victim’s body was found, the lawyer representing Sanjay Roy, the civic volunteer arrested in the case, raised questions about the place of occurrence of the crime, during the arguments in a Sealdah court on Saturday.Roy, the…
The Palestinian Authority temporarily halted operations of Qatar’s Al Jazeera television in the territory, including its broadcasts, citing the network’s dissemination of “inciting material,” the Palestinian news agency WAFA said on Wednesday. The culture, interior and communications ministers made the decision jointly because the channel broadcast material that was “deceiving and stirring strife,” WAFA said…
In a controversial decision, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has rejected the green card application of Yuchen Jin, a computer scientist and Chief Technology Officer of the AI startup Hyperbolic Labs. Jin, who co-founded the company and secured USD 20 million in funding, was told his work lacked an impact “beyond that…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday cited an old post by Sam Pitroda to counter Congress, amidst a heated political debate over Union minister Amit Shah‘s remarks about Ambedkar in Parliament.Rijiju highlighted a previously deleted social media post where Pitroda had said that “Jawaharlal Nehru contributed to the drafting of the Constitution more…
The White House expressed confidence that the strong foundation of India-US relations can help the two nations navigate the ongoing crisis surrounding bribery charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addressed the allegations during a press briefing, stating that the Biden administration is aware of the charges against Adani, the…