A photograph of U.S. Presidential-elect Donald Trump is displayed by activists belonging to ‘Hindu Sena’ in New Delhi on Wednesday. Pakistanis fear the business magnate will forge closer ties with their arch-rival India and not be so favourably poised towards their country. Donald Trump’s surprise election as the 45th United States President has Pakistanis wary
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sacked Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid for the “lapse” on his part to stop a “false” report on a rift between the government and the powerful army from being published in national interest, a senior minister said on Sunday. Addressing a press conference a day after Mr. Rashid was fired by
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With Islamic State claiming responsibility for the police academy attack in Pakistan’s Quetta on Monday, is IS firmly in position in the Indian subcontinent or Khorasan as it terms the region? In an interview to The Hindu , Islamic State expert, Amarnath Amarsingam, a Fellow of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism in the US,
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The Prevention of Terrorism Act was enacted in 1979, under President J.R. Jayawardene, primarily to crush the emerging armed struggle of Tamil youth. — THE HINDU PHOTO ARCHIVES Even as Sri Lanka drafts a new law to counter terrorism, human rights activists and lawyers here fear it might be worse than the Prevention of Terrorism
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Anil Kumar, the Democratic congressional candidate for Michigan, who has attracted support from both Indian and Pakistani community members. Photo: Facebook Rabab Quamar was one of the three volunteers on shift on Monday afternoon, canvassing voters over the phone at the Democratic Party campaign office on the outskirts of the city, which is considered the
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The white synthetic resin he started manufacturing four years later at the company’s first plant in Kondivita Village, Mumbai, is today a generic term for adhesives, a go-to resource for anyone looking to glue things together. The original product was solidly utilitarian—a synthetic resin adhesive that was a much better substitute for earlier natural adhesives
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is on a two-day bilateral visit to India. Leyen is accompanied by members of European College of Commissioners. The delegation held talks with Indian officials in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Leyen at the Hyderabad House in the national capital on Friday. Also Read |
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ArcelorMittal’s India joint venture has warned it may have to severely curtail steelmaking in the country and delay its expansion plans due to New Delhi’s import restrictions on a key raw material, a letter to the government showed. In a bid to help the domestic coke industry, India, the world’s second-biggest producer of crude steel,
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Zoho Corp plans to make two artificial intelligence-based internal foundational models public by the end of the year, group chief executive officer Shailesh Davey said in an interview with Mint. The cloud software startup is also working on foundational models to support Indian languages, though it does not have a timeline on when they will
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New Delhi: With a strong rabi harvest expected, the government on Thursday decided to reimpose a 10% import duty on chana (bengal gram). The move marks an end to the duty-free import regime that was in place since May last year to ease domestic shortages and stabilize prices. The decision comes at a time when
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