Indian-origin UK MP Priti Patel staunchly defended India’s military strikes on terror camps in Pakistan while emphasising that terrorists based in Pakistan threaten both India and Western interests. In a fiery speech in Parliament, Patel called for more active involvement of the UK in working with India to tackle terrorist threats. “We want to avoid…
He urged the audience of college students not to think they were too young to accomplish great things, before waxing on about tariffs. “Don’t try to be someone else,” he implored them, after attacking due process for unauthorized immigrants. And he told them not to think of themselves as victims, before diverting into how the…
In a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, China invoked the speech of former US President Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s 1987 speech, warning against the perils of trade wars. The video resurfaced after the Chinese Embassy in the US shared the clip on social media platform X. The clip featured Reagan’s warning that high…
President Trump and Europe are clashing over tariffs, the war in Ukraine and the very purpose of the European Union’s existence. But they are also divided over free speech — with potentially far-reaching implications for how the digital world is regulated. The E.U. has been investigating U.S. companies under the Digital Services Act, a new…
PM Modi with US President Donald Trump United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Prime Minister Modi his ‘great friend’ while imposing his ambitious retaliatory tariff on India.Trump said Washington would impose “discounted reciprocal tariffs” of 26 per cent on New Delhi.“India, very, very tough. Very, very tough. The Prime Minister just left. He’s…
The night before Dr. Joanne Liu was scheduled to deliver a long-planned speech at N.Y.U. Langone Health, the hospital affiliated with her alma mater, she received a call that stunned her. Her presentation on humanitarian crises was being canceled, the university official on the other end of the line said. The reason, Dr. Liu said…
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes, setting the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s history. His feat of endurance was aimed at showing Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s sweeping actions. Booker broke a record…
On Friday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law a sweeping higher education overhaul that will ban diversity initiatives, regulate classroom discussions, and prohibit faculty strikes, among other significant changes. The law, known as S.B. 1, will take effect in 90 days, as reported by Ohio Capital Journal.S.B. 1 introduces strict regulations on classroom discussions,…
NEW DELHI: Former Chhattisgarh chief minister and senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel said late on Wednesday that the CBI raids at his premises were politically motivated. He alleged that the action was meant to create material for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech during his visit to the state on March 30. Baghel claimed he had…
British authorities issued a record fine against one of the country’s universities on Wednesday for issues including failing to “uphold the freedom of speech and academic freedom” in a policy statement on transgender equality, an escalation in the debate over student and staff rights on campus. The Office for Students, the regulator for higher education…