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President Trump’s repeated assertions that India has agreed to reduce tariffs “way down” have sparked a predictable wave of denials from New Delhi, underscoring the fraught and often opaque nature of trade negotiations between the two countries. While Trump’s tendency to make exaggerated or even unverified claims is well-known, in this particular case his statements may hold more weight than the official denials coming from the Indian government. This is not without precedent.

As part of his pan-India vision, Rahul Gandhi has executed his ambitious programme to weed out BJP’s sleeper cells within Congress ranks and hand over the functioning of the party into the hands of the ideologically-oriented young leaders.

Wednesday afternoon the Pak Army was planning a “full-scale operation” to free Pak Army personnel taken hostage by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in a train. This, after claiming that security forces had "rescued over 100 civilian hostages" when the reality was the BLA had already "released civilians, including women and children."

In India, archaeological practices and conservation are regulated by a network of bureaucratic mechanisms, legal authority, and disciplinary conventions. The primary institution at the helm of these practices is the Archaeological Survey of India.

WASHINGTON DC: On the evening of January 19, 2025, the American Hindu Coalition — a pro–Donald Trump group whose stated mission is to “build a stronger America through Hindu Enlightenment Principles” — joined forces with several right-wing Latino organizations to host a joint Hindu-Latino inaugural ball in downtown Washington, DC. Among those who gathered in the ballroom of the swanky Mayflower Hotel, rubbing shoulders with Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei, was Rajiv Pandit, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) — a Washington, DC–based advocacy group that proudly professes to be the “largest and oldest education and advocacy organization and the pre-eminent voice for Hindu Americans.”

The 14th National People’s Congress of China ended its one-week-long session in Beijing on Tuesday March 11 with a clear direction given by the President and the Communist Party supremo Xi Jinping that China will take on the disruptions made in the global order by the United States president Donald Trump in his second term, through both diplomacy and increased strength of the country’s economy.

Trump's tariff policy is making headlines once again. On 2 March, the Trump administration's decision to impose 20% tariffs on Chinese imports and 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico came into effect. As a retaliatory measure, Canada has announced immediate 25% tariffs on C$30 billion ($20.7 billion) worth of U.S. imports, with the potential to extend these measures to an additional C$125 billion ($86.2 billion) if the U.S. tariffs remain in place beyond 21 days. Likewise, China has announced additional tariffs of 10–15% on various U.S. products.

Ajit Pawar, Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Finance in Maharashtra, has made a new promise on empty poll promises, that the promises will be implemented as and when funds are available. Soon after tabling of the Maharashtra’s Mahayuti government’s Budget 2025-26 on February 10, the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) had called Mahayuti’s poll promises bogus.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 24th State Conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) concluded with a ringing reiteration of its intent to build on the spectacular gains the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has made during the nine years it has been in power.

NEW YORK: Mark Carney has been elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party in months-long, high stake race to replace the present Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Now the question that follows is twofold – can he repair the deteriorating relations between Canada and USA as the Prime Minister designate over the 25% tariffs issue and can he arrest the rising popularity of the opposition Conservative party and its leader before the next national elections.