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NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yumnam Khemchand is set to become the chief minister of Manipur after he was elected as the leader of legislative party on Tuesday.This comes after a meeting of the BJP’s legislative members meeting was held in the party headquarters in Delhi.Last year on Feb 9, then Manipur chief minister…
NEW DELHI: The 77th Republic Day celebration, besides its opulence and exuberance, witnessed a full-throttle political slugfest as political rivals, the BJP and the Congress, engaged in a no-holds-barred spat over something that connects to the poll-bound Assam. A Gamosa! Both parties trained guns at one another after the BJP alleged that Rahul Gandhi refused…
Days after UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s visit to New Delhi, Abu Dhabi has reportedly abandoned its deal with Pakistan for the management and operations of Islamabad International Airport.According to a report by Pakistan daily Express Tribune, the plan was shelved after the UAE failed to identify a local partner to whom…
There are moments in global politics when a throwaway detail says more than a thousand policy papers. This week at Davos, it was not tariffs, wars or balance sheets that captured the internet’s imagination. It was a pair of dark, reflective aviator sunglasses perched on the face of Emmanuel Macron.In the thin Alpine air, amid…
US President Donald Trump’s designated aircraft, Air Force One, made a sharp U-turn and returned to Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday after the crew reported a “minor electrical issue” during his trip to Davos for the World Economic Forum.A US government motorcade was seen heading toward the Maryland base on Tuesday night (local time).The White…
Donald Trump dislikes being compared to other American presidents. The irritation is almost visceral. Once described as the third-best president after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, he snapped back that they had not fought “eight, nine wars.” When contrasted with Barack Obama or Joe Biden, the verdict in his mind is even simpler. He is…
NEW DELHI: Nitin Nabin will take over as BJP national president on Tuesday after emerging, as widely expected, as the sole candidate in fray, with the party’s leading figures from PM Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues and CMs, besides hundreds of electors from across country, endorsing his choice for the top organisational job.Modi, who signed…
NEW DELHI: European Council President Antonio Luis Santos da Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit India for the 16th India-EU summit on Jan 27 and participate in the Republic Day parade as chief guests a day earlier, said govt in an official announcement.The summit will be the culmination of months…
A strong earthquake struck Mexico on Friday morning, abruptly interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s regular press briefing at the National Palace and triggering a swift evacuation captured on camera.As Sheinbaum was addressing reporters, seismic alarms sounded across Mexico City, forcing the president, her staff and journalists to leave the historic building and move to safety. The…
When Donald Trump publicly demanded Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation over alleged China connections in August 2025, the chipmaker’s future hung in the balance. Less than two weeks later, Tan emerged from a pivotal Oval Office meeting with an $8.9 billion government investment that transformed Intel into a “too-strategic-to-fail” company. The dramatic turnaround came after…
