In a power-packed dinner that brought together Silicon Valley’s titans at the White House, US President Donald Trump posed a pointed question as he went around the table: how much are America’s biggest technology companies investing back home? The heads of tech giants — Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — responded with promises of staggering…
Bangladesh’s interim government chief, Muhammad Yunus, has renewed his push to revive the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), which has remained in limbo since the 2016 Pakistan-sponsored Uri terror attacks that killed 17 Indian soldiers. During his meeting with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Sunday, Yunus once again stressed the need to…
New Delhi, India: The Congress on Wednesday urged the PM Modi Government to act on the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education’s report recommending reservations for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) in private higher educational institutions (HEIs).Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, in a statement, said the Committee, chaired by senior party…
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi did not mince words as he raised the issue of the safety of Chinese nationals working on various projects in Pakistan with army chief Asim Munir during his visit to Beijing. Munir, in his first visit to China after the hostilities with India in May, underscored that their time-tested partnership…
There were major developments across space, politics, diplomacy, and business on Tuesday. India’s astronaut returned safely from space, while Tesla finally opened its first showroom in Mumbai. In global affairs, Donald Trump made headlines for a sharp shift in his Ukraine policy amid the latter’s war with Russia, and Rahul Gandhi took a dig at…
Congress president Kharge and PM Modi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also the Rajya Sabha leader of opposition, wrote to PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday, urging him to hold the election of the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker.Highlighting the vacant status of the position for the two consecutive Lok Sabha terms,…
Reciprocal tariffs on China were raised to 125% by Trump. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a 90-day pause on the rollout of reciprocal tariffs on most countries, with the exception of China. US stock markets reacted positively to the news, showing remarkable gains. The S&P 500 index climbed 5.7% after recovering from a…
For months, French businesses have been bracing for the fallout of trade wars and tariff threats from the United States as the effects of President Trump’s “America First” policies ripple out. But this past week, the French corporate world was roiled by another type of Trump missive. In a terse three-paragraph letter sent by the…
Moscow is pressing its offensive to retake the full territory of Russia’s Kursk region from Ukraine as negotiations between the White House and the Kremlin continue over a possible cease-fire in the three-year war. Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its forces had retaken two villages outside Sudzha, the main Russian town that Ukraine…
U.S. officials made a new offer to the Taliban over the weekend to try to secure the release of Americans held in Afghanistan, according to people familiar with the matter. American officials declined to discuss the negotiations or the offer. But people briefed on the conversations said the White House had been working on a…