NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to former IAS probationerPuja Khedkar, who is facing allegations of using fake OBC & PwD certificates in the civil services (UPSC) examination. Facing threat of being arrested, she had moved the court for pre-arrest bail in the case.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish…
China will extend its visa-free policy to nationals of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, putting some of Latin America’s largest economies on equal footing with many European and Asian countries as it sought stronger ties with the region. The visa-free arrangement will be effective from June 1 for a year, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson…
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that eight federal agencies will terminate another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, on top of $2.2 billion in federal funding it cancelled last week. An administration antisemitism task force cited what it described as a failure by the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school to confront what it called…
The Colombian government said on Saturday that it had granted asylum to Ricardo Martinelli, a former president of Panama who had been sheltering for more than a year in the Nicaraguan Embassy in Panama City to evade a prison sentence for money laundering. Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had granted Mr….
Columbia University announced on Tuesday that it is laying off nearly 180 employees after US President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in federal funding. The decision, which affects a wide range of research programs at the Ivy League institution, comes in response to the university’s handling of student protests related to the war in Gaza.The…
The Trump administration on Monday barred Harvard University from receiving any new federal research grants. Education Secretary Linda McMahon conveyed in a sharply worded letter to the president of Harvard, Alan M. Garber. This is the Trump administration’s most pointed action against one of the nation’s most prestigious academic institutions. “This letter is to inform…
The Trump administration on Monday sought to force Harvard University back to the negotiating table by informing the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college that it will not be eligible for any new federal grants. That decision was relayed in a contentious letter to Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard, from Linda McMahon, the education…
The standoff between the Trump administration and Harvard University escalated on Monday as the US Department of Education informed the university it would freeze billions in research grants unless Harvard complies with a set of federal demands. In a letter addressed to Harvard President Alan Garber, the Education Department announced that the university would receive…
NEW DELH: India is set to urge global multilateral agencies, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, to review financial assistance to Pakistan in the aftermath of the recent terror attack in J&K’s Pahalgam which claimed the lives of 26 civilians.“We will be asking all multilateral agencies to review the loans and…
The Trump administration has halted $1 billion for mental health services for children, saying that the programs funded by a bipartisan law aimed at stemming gun violence in schools were no longer in “the best interest of the federal government.” Lawmakers authorized the money in 2022 after a former student opened fire at an elementary…