- Thursday, February 27, 2025
INDIAN-AMERICAN Republican presidential candidates have reacted strongly to the indictment of former US president Donald Trump. Trump was arraigned last week on charges accusing him of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday (6) urged voters to leave Trump and his legal…
Bangladesh will tone down its Digital Security Act, criticised by many as a draconian curb on dissent, to allow bail for suspects and halt the jailing of journalists for defamation, the law minister said on Monday (7). Journalists and rights activists have long demanded the repeal of the act to…
Imran Khan’s conviction and his three-year jail term in a corruption case have cleared a “major hurdle” in holding general elections in Pakistan and will help the ruling PML-N and the powerful military establishment to get the “desired results” in the polls, some analysts and political leaders believe. Political analyst…
IN FEBRUARY 1999, Sir William Macpherson released a devastating report into the racist murder of the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence. The term ‘institutional racism’ started to prick the conscience of our wonderfully tolerant country. I say this without any hint of sarcasm or irony because I can’t imagine living in…
FAR-RIGHT British politician Nigel Farage has said that Indian-American Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, ‘has what it takes to be a force in the US politics’. “He (Ramaswamy) can help Make America Great Again,” Farage wrote in his column in The Telegraph. “The story of Ramaswamy’s life so far is a…
SENIOR doctors in England plan to strike again in September unless the government agrees to more pay negotiations, their union said on Monday (7). But the health department restated that its last pay offer was “final.” The NHS has been disrupted by healthcare workers walking out in demand of pay…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi will attend the next BRICS summit to be held Johannesburg in-person from August 22, the South African government has said. It dismissed some media reports as “rumours” that the Indian leader will not take part in the meeting of the five-nation grouping. The BRICS bloc…
Bangladesh is grappling with a record-deadly outbreak of dengue fever, with hospitals struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely-populated country. At least 293 people have died so far in 2023 and nearly 61,500 infected, according to official figures, making this the deadliest year…
TESLA’S Indian-origin accounting officer has been made the electric carmaker’s chief finance officer. Vaibhav Taneja succeeds Zachary Kirkhorn who stepped down from the position after 13 years of association with the Austin-based company headed by billionaire Elon Musk. Kirkhorn, who had succeeded Indian-American Deepak Ahuja as the CFO in 2019,…
INDIA in recent months has barred domestic manufacturers of military drones from using components made in China over concerns about security vulnerabilities, according to four defence and industry officials and documents reviewed by Reuters. The measure comes amid tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours and as New Delhi pursues a military modernisation…
