Representative image (Photo: PTI) GUWAHATI: Kuki and Meitei villagers clashed on Sunday along the boundary of Imphal East and Kangpokpi districts in Manipur after a standoff between farmers from both communities over ploughing rights at a foothill village.Three to five people suffered minor injuries during the skirmish near Sadu Lampak, an area straddling an unofficial…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif has urged the US to broker a “comprehensive dialogue” between India and Pakistan. Addressing an event at the US embassy in Islamabad on Wednesday, Sharif lauded US President Donald Trump for what he said was his role in defusing a four-day military clash last month that was triggered by the…
Train engineers for NJ Transit went on strike, bringing the state’s bustling rail network to a grinding halt and stranding an estimated 350,000 daily commuters who rely on the service between New Jersey and New York City. The walkout, New Jersey’s first transit strike in over four decades, comes after a marathon 15-hour negotiation session…
Top officials from the Trump administration will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this week, the first formal meeting about trade between the United States and China since President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese imports to triple-digit levels last month. Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, and Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, plan…
Air France and Germany’s Lufthansa were among global carriers avoiding Pakistani airspace, airlines and flight trackers showed on Monday, as tension between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan stays high after a deadly attack in Kashmir last month. India took measures such as closing its airspace to Pakistan airlines, while Pakistan barred those owned or operated…
A tiny sandbar in the disputed South China Sea has become the latest flashpoint in tensions between China and the Philippines, with each side displaying its flag to reinforce competing claims on the island. Earlier this month, members of the Chinese Coast Guard landed on the disputed reef, Sandy Cay, unfurled a flag and “exercised…
NEW DELHI: London witnessed live India vs Pakistan drama when the diaspora members from both the nations took to streets outside the Indian high commission to counter each other’s protests. Waving their national flags, demonstrators lined opposite sides of the road, engaging in a heated slogan battle over the Pahalgam attack that claimed the lives…
Harvard faces US backlash as Trump escalates war on academic freedom Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the US, has become the epicenter of a high-stakes conflict with President Donald Trump, igniting national debate over academic freedom, federal authority, and institutional independence. What began as a firm rejection of the White House’s…
Federal immigration agents were blocked from entering two Los Angeles elementary schools this week after attempting to locate five young students—an incident that has thrust the city’s education system into the eye of a growing political storm. The officers, representing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), were reportedly seeking children in grades one through six,…
President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. “Be cool,” he told Americans. Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields that could shake the dominant position of…