Judge transfers case of detained Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont (Picture credit: AP) A federal judge on Friday ordered the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, to be moved from Massachusetts to Vermont, where she was briefly held after her arrest by immigration officers last week.Ozturk’s lawyers had […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) The US Supreme Court on Friday handed a major victory to the Trump administration by allowing it to terminate over $600 million in federal teacher-training grants, part of its broader campaign to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The 5-4 decision overruled a lower court’s […]
A tsunami warning was issued for Papua New Guinea after a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Britain Island on Saturday morning, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake, which occurred at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres, hit at 6:04am local time, around 194 kilometres southeast of Kimbe. The US […]
Donald Trump posted a cryptic message on Truth Social amid tariff chaos. President Donald Trump put out a cryptic message Friday amid global meltdown over his tariffs as he wrote ‘only the weak will fail’. The aftershocks of Donald Trump’s massive tariff moves started with China announced an additional 34 per cent tariff on all […]
NEW DELHI: In a meeting with Myanmar junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, PM Narendra Modi underlined the importance of early restoration of the democratic process in Myanmar, including through credible and inclusive elections. He said India would support all efforts, as it has in the past, to foster trust and advance a Myanmar-owned […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) A US federal judge on Friday blocked US President Donald Trump’s move to dismantle the Latin America development agency, Inter-American Foundation (IAF), ruling that the administration likely overstepped its authority when it removed the agency’s leadership and froze its grants.US district judge Loren AliKhan, an appointee […]
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) beat Mumbai Indians (MI) by 12 runs in Match No.16 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 on Friday, April 4 at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. With their third defeat in four matches, MI slipped to seventh in the table with a net […]
‘Stop playing politics!’: Donald Trump urges Fed Chair Jerome Powell to slash rates (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Friday called on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates immediately, even as the central bank faces mounting pressure over inflation concerns triggered by his administration’s sweeping new tariffs.“This would be a […]
Donald Trump personally chose the formula based on which the tariffs were decided. A White House official told Washington Post that President Donald Trump is “at the peak of just not giving a f**k anymore”, explaining the rationale behind the reciprocratory tariffs that the president announced on April 2. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a […]
Donald Trump delays TikTok ban again, grants 75-day extension (Picture credit: AP) TikTok will continue operating in the United States until at least mid-June, after US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order delaying the ban by another 75 days. The deadline extension gives ByteDance more time to divest TikTok’s US operations amid […]
