Multiple claims circulating on social media allege that Indian forces struck a nuclear arms storage facility in Pakistan’s Sargodha during ‘Operation Sindoor’. While the Mushaf airbase in Sargodha was confirmed as one of India’s missile targets, Air Marshal A.K. Bharti, speaking at a press briefing on Monday, denied reports of any strike on the nearby…
Since the horrific terrorist attack in Kashmir last week, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has spoken on the phone with more than a dozen world leaders. Diplomats from 100 missions in India’s capital have filed into the foreign ministry for briefings, officials said. But the effort is largely not about rallying help to de-escalate…
China on Monday issued a sharp warning against any country entering into trade agreements with the United States at its expense, asserting that it will “firmly oppose” such deals and respond with “resolute and reciprocal” countermeasures. The statement, from the Ministry of Commerce, comes amid reports that the Trump administration is encouraging US allies to…
For centuries, Harvard University has been shaping American society, education and politics. Now, it is shaping its resistance. As President Donald Trump bulldozes his way through every liberal checkgate, he finds it is the brick-brown Harvard that is in his way, and the nation uniting behind it. Trump has woken up the behemoth with a…
As its trade negotiators rushed to Washington to seek a reprieve from President Donald J. Trump’s blanket tariffs, South Korea on Wednesday announced new measures to soften the blow of levies on the country’s carmakers. The two efforts underlined the delicate balance that South Korea needs to strike after the country, one of the most…
Makoto Watanabe has never forgotten the day when his previous employer, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers, retreated from its biggest investigative scoop about the Fukushima nuclear disaster: that workers had fled the plant against orders from the plant’s manager. It was 11 years ago, and the Asahi Shimbun had come under fire from other media…
Since December, astronomers have been carefully studying whether an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long will impact the Earth in just under eight years. And the odds, overall, seem to be rising. On Jan. 29, the chances of this asteroid (named 2024 YR4) striking our planet on Dec. 22, 2032, were 1.3 percent. Then…
NEW DELHI: England captain Jos Buttler praised Abhishek Sharma for his incredible 54-ball 135 in India’s 150-run victory in the fifth Twenty20 International in Mumbai. He called the record innings one of the best displays of “clean ball striking.” With 13 sixes, the most in an innings for any Indian player, and the second-fastest T20I…