The US economy shrank by 0.5% on an annual basis in the first quarter of 2025, as President Donald Trump’s trade war prompted a rush of imports, disrupting businesses, the commerce department announced on Thursday.This unexpected sharp downgrade from an earlier estimate of a 0.2% decline, reflects the economic fallout from Trump’s trade policies, which…
Pakistan was the seventh most-affected country in the world for civilian casualties resulting from explosive weapons in 2024, recording 790 civilian casualties, including 210 deaths, according to a new report that highlights the alarming state of civilian safety in the country. Although the total number of civilian casualties in 2024 represented a nine per cent…
Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several customers about a change in company policy. It said they were no longer allowed to use Cursor on more than just one computer. In angry posts to internet message boards, the customers complained. Some canceled their…
NEW DELHI: Making his first major public appearance since AAP’s defeat in the Delhi elections, Arvind Kejriwal has once again taken aim at INDIA bloc-ally, Congress. Speaking at AAP’s ‘Ek Shaam Shaheedon Ke Naam’ event on Sunday, Kejriwal accused both the BJP and Congress of colluding, alleging that neither party values the contributions of national…
President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his power. “Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven…
The Misery Index: It’s not just for people reading my work. (Ha! You thought you were going to hit me with that in the comments, but I just “8 Mile’d” you.) Let’s move on to the point of this story, and yes, there is one (“8 Mile’d” again). A lot of NBA fan bases are…
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Tommy Paul is going to be seriously annoyed if his stay in the top 10 of the men’s tennis rankings amounts to a five-week cup of coffee. When tennis players go into a soliloquy about how they don’t pay attention to the rankings or have the faintest idea how many points…
Hours before meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump on Thursday rolled out his plan for comprehensive “reciprocal tariffs” affecting both allies and rivals, intensifying global trade tensions that economists suggest could lead to domestic inflation.“I’ve decided for purposes of fairness that I will charge a reciprocal tariff,” Trump said in the Oval…
Major League Baseball recently released a report about pitcher injuries. It was the culmination of interviews with 200 subject-matter experts about the growing rash of arm troubles in the sport, and the word “stuff” was used 47 times. The report includes entire sections about the concept of stuff metrics — like Stuff+ — and how…
It is hard to be optimistic about the future of India-Bangladesh relations. Since the student-led transition to an interim government in Dhaka on August 5th, bilateral ties have been in freefall. New Delhi had been friendly with the previous Awami League government despite its authoritarian trampling of human rights and democracy. India now harbours former…