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A view shows the railway station, after the train service is halted following the attack on a train by separatist militants in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan on March 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan Army on Friday (March 14, 2025) said that 18 of the 26 hostages killed by Balochistan Liberation Army militants, who ambushed … Read more
Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Parvathaneni Harish. File | Photo Credit: ANI India has slammed Pakistan for its “unjustified” reference to Jammu and Kashmir in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with New Delhi asserting that such remarks will neither validate the country’s claim nor justify its practice of cross-border terrorism. “As … Read more
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launches from the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP The replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on Friday (March 14, 2025) night, paving the … Read more
Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian student at Columbia University who self-deported after visa revocation. | Photo Credit: X/U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that an Indian doctoral student from Columbia University, whose visa was revoked for allegedly supporting Hamas, has voluntarily left the United States. Who is … Read more
South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool talked in academic language of the Trump administration’s crackdowns on diversity and equity programs and immigration on March 14, 2025. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday (March 14, 2025) that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP After U.S. President Donald Trump urged Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Friday (March 14, 2025) to spare Ukrainian troops that Russia is pushing out of its Kursk region, Mr. Putin said … Read more
Last month, six people, including JUI-S leader Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, were killed and 15 injured when a suicide blast ripped through the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in the province. File | Photo Credit: AP Four worshippers, including a senior cleric, were injured when a bomb exploded during Friday (March 14, 2025) prayers at a … Read more
The Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill Friday (March 14, 2025) hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to U.S. President Donald Trump to be signed into law. The essentially party-line vote, 54-46, didn’t give the full picture of gnawing Democratic angst over how to confront the … Read more
In 1951, Nepal had its first tryst with democracy. An iconic hand-wave from a plane by Nepal’s King Tribhuvan in Kathmandu, returning from India seven and a half decades ago, is still synonymous with democracy. People chanted slogans hailing democracy. The airport was later named after him — Tribhuvan International Airport, which caters to both … Read more
Immigration officials have arrested a second person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and have revoked the visa of another student, they announced Friday (March 14, 2025). Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by immigration officers for overstaying her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security said. … Read more