File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday warned Iran that he is ready to go beyond destroying its power plants and bridges if it does not “cry uncle” before his Tuesday evening deadline. “We have obliterated the country…they don’t want to say uncle […]
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, along with American songwriter Bob Dylan, are the only two people to achieve literary and cinematic harmony: winning both the Nobel and the Oscar. Bernard Shaw won his Nobel for the screenplay Pygmalion, which was made into a movie and was credited with elevating Hollywood from illiteracy to literacy. Bernard […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday suggested ‘winding down’ US military operations in the Middle East as he listed the ‘5 objectives’ that Washington is nearing to achieve in its war in the Middle East, ruling out the possibility of a ceasefire. The announcement comes as Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei claimed victory over […]
If one listens to commentary about Donald Trump – and there’s so much of it that banning the word ‘Trump’ would bankrupt WENA outlets – you would assume he was an anomaly in the system, the sum total of all unbalanced equations, antithetical to the American way of life. In recent times, his actions — […]
In the early hours of Feb. 28, President Donald Trump and his administration joined Israel in launching a wave of strikes on Iran, and later that night, he asked a group of roughly 25 GOP donors at Mar-a-Lago in Florida whom they would prefer he support for president in 2028: Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]
Donald Trump was set to deliver the State of the Union in Washington, his second major address to Congress this term and the last before the 2026 midterms. It was also the first time Trump was to be confronted with the Supreme Court justices since they ruled his tariffs illegal.The State of the Union traditionally […]
The Pentagon reportedly did not receive any orders to send a hospital ship to Greenland, despite President Donald Trump claiming over the weekend that a vessel was “on the way.”The military did not receive orders to deploy any Navy vessels, The Wall Street Journal reported, and both Navy hospital ships were reportedly docked at a […]
There’s a Hindustani proverb that states: Hammam mein sab nange hain. The phrase refers to public bathhouses common in Persian, Mughal, or Ottoman societies. The phrase’s literal translation is: In a bathhouse, everyone is naked. The idea is that there’s no point pretending behind a veil of hypocrisy because, when the judgement comes, we are […]
Elon Musk, X chief, on Thursday took a dig at US President Donald Trump’s newly announced Board of Peace, drawing a similarity between “piece” or “peace.”He opened his session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a joke, saying “I heard about the formation of the peace summit, and I was like, is […]
The White House debunked the reports claiming that US President Donald Trump suffered a stroke several months ago and has kept it from the public. In a post on X, the Trump administration, sharing the Daily Beast report on the president’s health, said, “Another day, another BS Fake News “story” from the Daily Beast. President […]
