Former Indian High Commissioner to Canada, Ajay Bisaria, discussed the Khalistani elements’ influence on Canadian politics. He called it a “disproportionate capture” by a sharp and strategic group. Bisaria’s remark must be seen against the backdrop of Canada’s April 28 elections. He said that although the Khalistani groups have now existed for over 40 years,…
El Salvador refused to return a U.S. deportee At a White House meeting with President Trump, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said yesterday that he would not return a man who was wrongly deported from the U.S. and sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. “Of course I’m not going to do it,” Bukele…
President Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily declining for more than a decade. But the effort is likely to fail, energy experts said, because the fossil fuel faces some critical hurdles. The power that coal plants produce typically can’t…
BEHRAMPORE/KOLKATA: Following violent protests in Murshidabad against the new waqf law, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday appealed for peace, and asked people not to indulge in “irreligious behaviour in the name of religion”, while insisting that the new amended waqf law would not be implemented in Bengal.“We have clearly stated our position on…
US President Donald Trump wants other countries to import more American beef and poultry. Several countries have restricted importing these products for decades because they don’t meet their food safety regulations.In an announcement on April 2, Trump called out Australian restrictions on US beef, saying: “We imported $3 billion [€2.7 billion] of Australian beef from…
The Trump administration formally barred federal workers from listing their preferred pronouns in email signatures, calling it a symptom of a misguided “gender ideology.” Some White House officials are taking a similar approach with the journalists who cover them. On at least three recent occasions, senior Trump press aides have refused to engage with reporters’…
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, told cheering supporters in Paris on Sunday that she would fight the five-year ban on her running for office , which resulted from an embezzlement conviction, casting herself as an underdog representing those who are “disdained” by the political elite. Addressing a crowd of several thousand who chanted…
NEW DELHI: Amid growing Chinese footprint in the Indian Ocean, India signed its first ever MoU for defence cooperation with Sri Lanka that will help both sides formalise and enhance cooperation between their armed forces. The agreement was one of the highlights of PM Narendra Modi’s ongoing visit to the strategically-located neighbour that also saw…
A Ukrainian geologist was shopping in his local market recently for pork belly, lard, salmon and grapes when he heard the shouts of a man who seemed drunk, complaining about President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Why didn’t Zelensky ask us before giving away our minerals to the Americans?” he yelled. A woman joined in: “The Americans are…
In 2009, Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke went viral after telling Yahoo Sports he was boycotting Chipotle’s guacamole. “I mean, $1.50 is already pretty darn high. So they changed it to $1.80, and I’ll never again get guacamole,” Greinke said. “It’s not about the guacamole itself. I just don’t want to let them win.”…