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
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | Photo Credit: REUTERS I Representatives of China, Russia and Iran called Friday (March 14, 2025) for an end to U.S. sanctions on Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program and a restart to multinational talks on the issue. The talks are the latest attempt to broach the matter … Read more
New York Police officers arrest a demonstrator from the group, Jewish Voice for Peace, who protested inside Trump Tower in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, Thursday, March 13, 2025, in New York. | Photo Credit: AP Columbia University on Thursday (March 13, 2025) said it had doled out a range of punishments to … Read more
Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney arrives for a swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday, March 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Former central banker Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new Prime Minister on Friday (March 14, 2025), and will now try to steer his country through a trade war brought … Read more
This week, we look at the situation in Afghanistan, where it would seem the Taliban regime has consolidated its position since it took over Kabul in 2021. As a result, India is looking for whether it should draw the Taliban closer in a number of ways, a series of measures that have followed after a … Read more
Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) have written to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio seeking details of the alleged $21 million spent by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on “voter turnout” in India. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday (March 14, 2025) there is a “very good chance” the war between Russia and Ukraine can end after productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Thursday (March 13, 2025). “We had very … Read more
A view shows a damaged site, after Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday (March 13, 2025), as reported by Syria’s state news agency, in Damascus, Syria. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: Syria has entered a three-month period of political and military uncertainty following the fall of … Read more
Foreign Ministers of leading Western democracies warned on Thursday (March 13, 2025) of the threat from Iran’s growing use of arbitrary detention and foreign assassination attempts as a tool of coercion, a final draft statement seen by Reuters showed. The G7 nations, comprising Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, said in … Read more