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January 24, 2025 4:15 PM

How Modi government introduced DOGE a decade before Trump?

Around early 2013, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, gave a clairon call that was a precursor to his national campaign. ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’ was the Chief Minister’s aspiration amd ambition for the country w...

January 24, 2025 2:30 PM

Risk of clash between nuclear powers is growing, Russian security official says

Russian security official Sergei Shoigu warned in an interview published on Friday that the risk of an armed clash between nuclear powers was rising. Shoigu, the secretary of President Vladimir Putin's Security Council, told TASS news agency: "Again...

January 23, 2025 4:43 PM

South Korea investigators ask prosecutors to indict Yoon for insurrection, abuse of power

South Korea's anti-corruption officials on Thursday requested that prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for insurrection and abuse of power for his short-lived martial law declaration. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ran...

January 23, 2025 1:55 PM

Hamas’ tight grip on Gaza complicates plan for lasting peace

In neighbourhoods levelled by 15 months of war with Israel, Hamas officials are overseeing the clearance of rubble in the wake of Sunday's ceasefire. The group's gunmen are guarding aid convoys on Gaza's dusty roads, and its blue-uniformed police onc...

January 23, 2025 4:44 PM

US deploys Typhon missile launchers to new location in Philippines

The U.S. military has moved its Typhon launchers - which can fire multipurpose missiles up to thousands of kilometres - from Laoag airfield in the Philippines to another location on the island of Luzon, a senior Philippine government source s...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

January 23, 2025 4:45 PM

Trump threatens Russia, others with tariffs if Ukraine deal not reached

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would add new tariffs to his sanctions threat against Russia if the country does not make a deal to end its war in Ukraine, and added that these could also be applied to "other participating countri...

January 22, 2025 7:08 PM

Trump 2.0: Crypto bet big on Trump in 2024. Can it cash in?

After pouring record sums of money into the 2024 U.S. elections, the cryptocurrency industry is hopeful – if not certain – of a newly friendly reception from D.C. policymakers after what it perceived to be a hostile environment in the Biden admin...

January 22, 2025 5:54 PM

India’s soft power at its grandest

Mahakumbh is creating waves in India and abroad. Hindu devotees having connections to various branches of Sanatana thought, Shaiva, Vaishnava, Shaakta, those who follow the tenets of a particular Guru or Ashram and those who follow no one....all are ...

January 22, 2025 2:55 PM

China families appeal to free relatives held by scam gangs in Myanmar

The abduction and cross-border rescue had all the makings of the kind of action script struggling Chinese actor Wang Xing had hoped to land – only not as a reality star. Wang, 22, flew to Bangkok earlier this month after getting an unsolicited off...

January 22, 2025 3:16 PM

EAM Jaishankar discusses regional, global issues with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in first bilateral meeting

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held his first bilateral meeting with newly-appointed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, where they reviewed the extensive India-US partnership and discussed a range of regional and global issues. The meeting to...

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