Houthi rebels detained two additional United Nations staff members and raided the homes of several others in Yemen over the last 48 hours, the latest in a series of events now forcing the world body to reassess how it operates in the war-torn country. The detainment of two staffers was confirmed by Farhan Haqq, the... Read More

During his first term, Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on a wide swath of Chinese imports — and Beijing retaliated by targeting American products — in a dispute over China’s aggressive efforts to supplant U.S. technological leadership. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. officials are launching an investigation into whether China lived up to its commitments... Read More

Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies, appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., on August 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by announcing the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America — a show of force far beyond any past counter-narcotics effort and Washington’s most assertive move in the region yet. The deployment, which adds to the... Read More

CPI (M) leader MV Govindan. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State Secretariat apparently sought to ease tensions with the Communist Party of India (CPI), the second largest constituent of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), which had openly criticised the government for “surreptiously” signing the “anti-federal and reactionary”... Read More

The Kerala High Court on Friday closed a plea by St. Rita’s School, Palluruthy, which challenged a directive issued by the Deputy Director of Education (DDE) to permit a Class VIII student of the school to attend classes by wearing the hijab (head scarf). This was after the court was informed that the student’s parents... Read More

Arvind Singh Rathore was born in 1989, which was the year before his grandfather, (late) Thakur Datar Singh Rathore, and his father, Thakur Santosh Singh Rathore, began cultivating soybean on their ancestral farmland in Muradpura, a village on the outskirts of Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The oilseed was quite new to farmers in this area... Read More

A not-for-profit techno-legal forum, primarily driven by practitioners of law and technology, will soon be launched to help address the challenges of cybercrime, privacy erosion, and regulatory gaps, said the organisers of Cyber Vidhi Sangam 2025. The inaugural conclave of the forum was organised by alumni of Cyber Law & Cyber Forensics Programme, NLSIU.  “Even the... Read More

BJP West Bengal State President Samik Bhattacharya. File. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday (October 25, 2025) accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of issuing “fake citizenship” documents in the State’s border districts by issuing delayed birth certificates.  The party claimed that these certificates... Read More

The Joint Action Committee of Karnataka State Anganwadi Workers’ Union has decided to go on strike at Freedom Park in Bengaluru from November 6, demanding that gratuity (retirement allowance) be given to all those who have been continuously serving as Anganwadi workers and helpers since 1975 and have retired since 2011-12 as per the Payment... Read More