Is there a churn in China? That’s the question being asked as Chinese President Xi Jinping keeps away from the public eye and skipping the 2025 Rio Summit for the first time in over a decade. There have been only two instances of Xi being seen, that too, in videos released by state media, since…
At least 118 foreign students’ legal statuses have been revoked across the universities in the US state of Texas as of Thursday, according to local media reports. (IANS Photo) A growing wave of immigration status revocations has swept across multiple Texas universities, affecting at least 118 international students. The removals have sparked confusion, concern, and…
FILE – People remove belongings on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., March 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) Alarms are ringing across American universities as federal authorities escalate a quiet but forceful campaign against international students. Legal residency statuses are being revoked without notice, visa permissions are being stripped…
Pentagon to eliminate 60,000 civilian jobs in major workforce overhaul. (Getty Images) The United States is facing a significant workforce reduction as the Pentagon plans to cut up to 60,000 civilian jobs. This drastic move is part of a broader push by the Trump administration to streamline government operations and reduce the size of the…
Rahul Gandhi. (Photo/PTI) AHMEDABAD: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi called for a purge within the party’s Gujarat unit, vowing to remove functionaries working covertly for BJP. Addressing party workers in Ahmedabad, Gandhi admitted Saturday that Congress had failed to meet public expectations in the state and stressed the need for an overhaul.“Gujarat is stuck and wants…
US President Donald Trump has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General CQ Brown, in an abrupt move amid his continued crackdown on federal employees recruited under the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative. Taking to Truth Social, the 78-year-old President – in a long post – thanked Brown for…
The Energy Department began laying off staff as the Trump administration accelerated sweeping cuts across the government, according to three people familiar with the matter. Around 1,000 federal workers, all probationary employees, were told they were losing their jobs on Thursday, according to one of the people. More than 300 of those workers were employed…
Two of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s three Democratic commissioners said on Tuesday that they had been removed from their roles by President Trump in a round of late-night firings that could mark a drastic shift in the government’s approach to workers’ rights in employment discrimination disputes. Charlotte A. Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels both said…
US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to restructure government agencies and slash bureaucracy, setting up the Department of Government Efficiency with billionaire executive Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy at the helm. Nicknamed DOGE after a popular meme and Musk’s favourite cryptocurrency, it will not be a federal department….