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Trump defends asylum freeze after Afghan shooter arrest in DC Guard attack - 'We have enough problems'

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- President Donald Trump has defended his administration's indefinite halt on asylum decisions, saying the pause carries "no time limit" and could stretch for "a long time," as the ... Read More


Quants clash with tech titans on IIT placement pitch

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- High-frequency traders and startups will compete with agentic artificial intelligence (AI) firms, as well as tech giants Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia, and even aircraft mak... Read More


Sudan Civil War Day 960: Europe's Migration Cash and Guns Fuel Sudan's Endless Bloodbath

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- KHARTOUM, Sudan - In the scorched earth of Sudan's Kordofan region, where the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have seized a key hospital amid a ruthless push southward, the echoes of E... Read More


FM to introduce Bill for 'health, national security' cess today, as tobacco levy set to expire

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Monday introduce a Bill in Lok Sabha to levy a new cess for public health and national security, replacing the GST compensation cess on... Read More


Surprise GDP growth casts a cloud over December rate cut

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is widely expected to keep the policy rate unchanged on 5 December, even as a sizable minority of economists ar... Read More


Haryana man killed in UK, kin seek MEA help

India, Dec. 1 -- The family of a 30-year-old student from Haryana's Charkhi Dadri, who was allegedly stabbed to death in Worcester in the United Kingdom on November 25, has urged the government for im... Read More


Kids being used to smuggle at India-Bangladesh border: BSF official

India, Dec. 1 -- Kolkata It was October 22. A sleepy village in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district went about its day as usual. Farmers toiled in the fields, women queued at the village tube we... Read More


Basti girl killed by brother; mom, son held for staging 'accident'

Lucknow, Dec. 1 -- A 20-year-old girl in Basti was allegedly murdered by her younger brother, with her mother also involved, after the two found her talking to a male friend over the phone. The incide... Read More


Vinay Kumar assumes charge as HP Congress chief

Dharamshala, Dec. 1 -- The newly appointed president of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) Vinay Kumar on Sunday assumed office at the party's state headquarters, Rajiv Bhawan in Shimla, i... Read More


Opposition looks to corner government on SIR as Parliament starts today

New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- The Opposition's insistence on having a debate on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls might lead to a turbulent winter session of Parliament that commences on ... Read More