Washington: In a significant immigration policy shift, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the end of the practice of automatically extending Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for certain noncitizens who file renewal applications, a rule that may impact Indians there. According to the rule, which takes effect on October 30, 2025, immigrants applying…
Busan (South Korea): US President Donald Trump said he will lower his tariff rates on imports of Chinese goods to 47% after meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, here, Thursday. Trump also announced that the meeting yielded an extendable one-year deal on the supply of crucial rare earths, as the meeting set the stage for the…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday alleged that the “Congress ecosystem” is against the state’s development, and the opposition party wants the youth to return to militancy. Sarma made the comments while responding to Karnataka Information Technology Minister Priyank Kharge’s purported statement that investments meant for the southern state were being diverted towards…
Kolkata: To maintain transparency and clarify doubts among people regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, the Election Commission (EC) has launched voter helpline 1950, an official said. Citizens have been informed that they can now use the helpline, along with various state and district-level services, to raise questions and…
United Nations: India has strongly rejected “baseless observations” made by a UN expert on Myanmar that refugees from the Southeast Asian nation were “under severe pressure” following the Pahalgam terror attack, with Delhi denouncing this “prejudiced and blinkered” analysis. “I express serious objection to the baseless and biased observations in the report regarding my country….
N Jagannath Das This day eight years ago (October 30), Maturi Venkat Sridhar left us. He was just 51 years old when he succumbed to cardiac arrest. Sridhar was a quintessential all-round personality — a man of many talents. He was Hyderabad’s leading run-getter, scoring 6,701 runs with 21 hundreds between the 1988 and 1999-2000…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will address two rallies in poll-bound Bihar on Thursday and exuded confidence that the voters will ensure a grand victory of the BJP-NDA. Modi kicked off the NDA campaign for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections by addressing rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai on October 24. “My family…
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said he feared forces “from home and abroad” to thwart planned general elections over barring deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League from contesting. “Many forces from inside and outside the country will work to spoil the election. Many powerful forces, not minor ones, will attempt…
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi has insulted all devotees of ‘Chhath Maiya’ by calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s devotion for the goddess a drama, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said, asserting that the Congress leader and Mahagathbandhan will have to suffer major consequences in the upcoming Bihar polls. He said the entire country prays…
Peshawar: At least six soldiers, including a Captain, were killed in an IED blast targeting a convoy of the security forces in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, said. The convoy came under attack in the Sultani area in the restive Kurram tribal district…
