New York/Washington: The Trump administration has said it will conduct a “rigorous” re-examination of all Green Cards issued to immigrants from “every country of concern” in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard service members by an Afghan national. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow said that President Donald Trump…
Udupi (Karnataka): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Udupi’s historic Sri Krishna Math on Friday. According to officials, the Prime Minister will participate in the “Laksha Geeta Pathana”, a mass recitation in which more than one lakh devotees will chant verses from the Bhagavad Gita. He is also expected to offer prayers at…
Sometimes revolutions arrive loudly. Others appear as a routine PDF on a Supreme Court website. What the Court uploaded this week looked like a dry docket of High Court appointments under Chief Justice B.R. Gavai. It is not. It is the most radical act of transparency the Collegium has ever undertaken—one that may permanently rewrite…
Bhubaneshwar: Ananta Charan Behera went to his former workplace, the Odisha assembly, on Thursday to have a glimpse of President Droupadi Murmu, but was utterly surprised when she spotted him in the crowd and called him by his name. Behera, a retired grade IV employee, was posted as a ‘jamadar’ in Murmu’s office when she…
New Delhi: With Friday being the last day of campaigning for the November 30 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) bypolls, senior BJP and AAP leaders have stepped up their efforts to woo voters. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta addressed a public meeting on Thursday in support of the Chandni Mahal ward candidate, Sunil Sharma, at Chhatta…
Faridabad: Delhi blast investigation revealed that Dr Muzammil Ganaie, one of the prime suspects arrested in connection with the white-collar terror module linked to the November 10 terrorist incident, had two more hideouts near the Al Falah University. Besides renting hideouts in Fatehpur Taga and Dhauj in Faridabad, Muzammil had taken a house on rent…
New Delhi: Poll authorities in Bihar have not received any application from candidates who were defeated in the recently-held Assembly polls with a request for EVM burnt-memory or microcontroller verification, the Election Commission (EC) said on Thursday. It said no similar request was received for the eight Assembly bypolls held along with the second phase…
If there is any country in the world that has neither the moral right nor the political standing to comment on India’s internal matters—least of all on Hindu civilisational issues—it is Pakistan. Yet, true to habit, Islamabad has once again thrust itself into a domain where it possesses neither credibility nor relevance. On November 25,…
A routine airport transit turned into a full-blown diplomatic flashpoint last week, exposing once again the fragility of India-China relations and the growing assertiveness with which Beijing pursues its territorial claims. The 18-hour detention of an Indian citizen at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport was no ordinary immigration dispute — it was a direct challenge to…
K S Nagarajan For decades, the world has been distracted by the glitz, wealth, and fabricated superiority of global power networks. Much like the caricatured sheikhs in old films — reveling in extravagance while exploiting others — today’s self-proclaimed guardians of international order behave no differently. Behind the polished language of “global security” and “peacekeeping”…
