Last year, Thailand and Cambodia opened a permanent border checkpoint at the Thai-Cambodian Friendship Bridge, turning a new leaf in their “love-hate” relationship over the years. A year later, the border region has become the site of a deadly clash between the two Southeast Asian neighbours over a simmering dispute over territory and a 1,000-year-old…
President Donald Trump was on stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds earlier this month, kicking off the country’s 250th anniversary celebration, when he heard what sounded like fireworks in the distance. “Did I hear what I think I heard?” Trump remarked as he spoke from behind a wall of thick, bulletproof glass. “Don’t worry, it’s…
Prithvi Shaw (Agency Photo) NEW DELHI: Once touted as the next big thing in Indian cricket, Prithvi Shaw has made a frank and emotional admission about the struggles that have derailed his once-promising career. In a recent interview, the 25-year-old revealed how poor choices, distractions, and a shift in priorities led to his decline, both…
MUMBAI: Captain Sumeet Sabharwal’s mortal remains arrived at his residence in Powai’s Jal Vayu Vihar Tuesday morning. A hush fell over the housing complex, with AI crew, fellow aviators, and family and friends filing in quietly. Residents of the locality gathered in clusters – some in grief, others in disbelief – outside the building where…
NEW DELHI: Seventeen-year-old Aryan Ansari was on the terrace of a building near Ahmedabad airport, casually filming planes to show his friends. What he ended up recording was the moment Air India’s Dreamliner 787-8 crashed and burst into flames, footage that has since gone viral across the country.“I came here on June 12. The plane…
“Pakistan’s credibility is depleting faster than even its forex reserves,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in 2023 after a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting. Two years since, Pakistan seems to be losing not only credibility, but friends as well as seen in the global response in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. Pakistan…
The Chinese Embassy in India has issued more than 85,000 visas to Indian citizens between January 1 and April 9, 2025, highlighting a major effort to enhance people-to-people connections between the two countries. Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong invited more Indians to visit China and experience its “open, safe, and friendly environment”. “As of…
The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. Lately, it has added a twist. It wants to make those families bigger. As fertility rates have declined, a “pronatalist” cluster on the right wing has been making the argument that public policy should encourage…
On March 9, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, sent an anxious text message to Najiba Akbar, the university’s former Muslim chaplain, with whom she had become close. “I recently learned that someone added all my information to a doxxing website called Canary Mission because of the op-ed published last March,” Ms….
Last year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking. Mr. Zuckerberg, who had grown Facebook from a dorm room project to a $1.5 trillion company that he renamed Meta, wanted to bring back some of…