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WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump is keeping "all options on the table," not ruling out military intervention regarding the ongoing crisis in Iran, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Thursday. Speaking at a press briefing, Leavitt warned of "grave consequences" if the violence against protesters continues....more
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump says he may impose tariffs on countries that don’t back the United States’s claim to control Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital. Since Trump returned to the White House in January, he has repeatedly insisted that the US control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in US hands would be “unacceptable”....more
NEW DELHI: Nearly 44,000 startups registered with the government in 2025, the highest annual addition since Startup India was launched, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday at an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Startup India scheme. Launched on January 16, 2016, the flagship initiative seeks to foster innovation, promote entrepreneurship, and enable investment-driven growth....more
By Deepak Arora
NEW DELHI: United States Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor presented his credentials to Indian President Droupadi Murmu during an official ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Wednesday. At the ceremony, Ambassador Gor formally became the 27th United States Ambassador to India....more
By Deepak Arora
 NEW DELHI/ UNITED NATIONS: India remains a bright spot in a challenging global economy, on course to be the fastest growing major economy in 2026, powered by resilient domestic demand and strategic investment, according to the UN report titled "World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026", released on Thursday....more
GANDHINAGAR: India and Germany will enhance defence trade with an eye on ‘co-production and co-development,’ said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, as the two sides signed an agreement to strengthen bilateral defence industrial cooperation. Welcoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to India, Modi said India will launch a ‘consultation mechanism’ on increasing collaboration with Germany in the Indo-Pacific region....more
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from 66 international organisations, including UN bodies and the India-France-led International Solar Alliance, calling the institutions “redundant” and “contrary” to America’s interests. Trump signed the memorandum on Wednesday titled ‘Withdrawing the United States from International Organisations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States’....more
LONDON: In an unsettling incident in Hounslow, West London, 200 members of the Sikh community gathered chanting, "Jo Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akal," to rescue a 16-year-old girl held captive by a man in his late 30s. The teenager was raped by 6 other men belonging to a Pakistani grooming gang. After hours of protests, one of the perpetrators was taken into custody by the police, and the girl was released....more
TEHRAN/ NEW DELHI: Amid protests which have rocked the country, the Indian embassy in Iran in an advisory on Wednesday urged Indian nationals who are in Iran to leave the country by available means of transport, including commercial flights. Iran's foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday called external affairs minister S Jaishankar....more
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has "greenlit" the bipartisan Russia Sanctions Bill, which could be used to penalise Moscow's trading partners, including India, China and Brazil, over their purchase of Russian oil, said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a prominent defence hawk....more
DOHA: The committee responsible for the GCC Tourism Capital has officially announced Doha as the GCC Tourism Capital for 2026, within the framework of strengthening joint tourism cooperation among GCC member states. This decision has been approved by Their Excellencies the Ministers responsible for tourism across the Gulf Cooperation Council....more
WASHINGTON: India’s economy is expected to grow 6.5 percent in FY27, easing from an estimated 7.2 percent in the current fiscal, the World Bank said on January 13, underlining that resilient domestic demand will continue to anchor growth even as external headwinds intensify. In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the multilateral lender noted that the impact of higher US tariffs on Indian exports is likely to be cushioned by stronger-than-anticipated momentum in domestic demand....more
WASHINGTON: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has given her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House, saying it was a recognition of his commitment to her country's freedom. "I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans," she said after meeting Trump in person for the first time, weeks after US forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and charged him in a drug-trafficking case....more
NEW DELHI: For many patients, receiving a 'normal' test result is a relief. But for a young woman treated by Dr Rahul Chawla – a neurologist trained at AIIMS, New Delhi, consultant neurologist at IBS Hospital, Lajpat Nagar, and founder of HealthPil.com – it was the source of a mounting nightmare....more |
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