A federal appeals court has halted US President Donald Trump’s plans to terminate protections for roughly 600,000 Venezuelans living and working legally in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that maintained…
Former US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has strongly criticised President Donald Trump for what he called a “massive trade offensive” against India, warning that the move risks driving New Delhi closer to Beijing. Speaking on The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller, Sullivan said many US allies and partners now perceive Washington as “a big…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to make an official visit to India in December, at a time when New Delhi is facing steep US tariffs and sanction threats by Donald Trump over its continued oil trade with Moscow, news agency AFP reported, citing Kremlin officials. The Kremlin had earlier announced that Putin had accepted…
“Crafted in 24-karat gold,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook as he gifted US President Donald Trump a plaque during the announcement of Apple’s $600-billion investment in America. But as Cook presented the plaque, something unusual happened. Trump stepped away from the podium to take a peek at the golden gift. His eyes gleamed, and he…
Daniel Block, Senior Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine, argues that Trump’s harsh tariff policies are fundamentally undermining decades of strategic partnership building between Washington and New Delhi. Speaking exclusively to India Today Global, Block highlighted the contradictory signals emerging from the Trump administration regarding India policy. “There are multiple voices within the administration pushing or…
Energy analyst Anas Alhajji has rejected US claims that Indian refiners are profiting heavily from buying Russian crude and exporting petroleum products to the West. Speaking to CNBC, he argued that the notion India is serving as a backdoor for Moscow’s oil trade is “false.” “The US argument on India is false,” Alhajji said. “If…
Stock market today (AI image) Stock market today: Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, the Indian equity benchmark indices, tanked in opening trade on Thursday a day after 50% US tariffs came into effect on India, but recovered in mid-day trade. While Nifty50 was below 24,700, BSE Sensex was over 200 points down. At 11:05 Am, Nifty50…
The Democratic Party is criticising Donald Trump’s administration for levying tariff sanctions on India. Democrats have stated that Trump is singling out India, hurting American interests and sabotaging the US-India relationship. A central point of their criticism is the query as to why similar sanctions are not being imposed on China. This has introduced a…
The Trump administration is getting ready to make major changes to the U.S. H-1B visa and green card system, which could have a profound effect on Indian professionals. Indian citizens make up the largest group of H-1B workers in America, with over 70 per cent of these visas going to them. The Current H-1B System…
Since President Donald Trump began his second term in January, his administration has turned America’s most selective universities into political battlegrounds. Billions of dollars in federal research funding have been frozen, accreditation threats have loomed large, and campus policies have been rewritten under pressure from Washington. Yet through this sweeping crackdown, Yale University has remained…