Ahmedabad Air India crash: U.K. families await update on DNA-matched remains

Ahmedabad Air India crash: U.K. families await update on DNA-matched remains

AHMEDABAD : GUJARAT : 12/07/2025 : Wreckage of the crashed Air India Plane is lying at Ahmedabad Airport premises in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on July 12, 2025. The Ahmedabad-London Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner (AI 171) with 242 people on board, crashed into a medical hostel and its canteen complex in Ahmedabad on June … Read more

Thailand returns two wounded soldiers to Cambodia but continues to hold 18 of their comrades

Thailand returns two wounded soldiers to Cambodia but continues to hold 18 of their comrades

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press, a Cambodian soldier, second from left, enters an ambulance at Cambodian-Thai border in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, on August 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Cambodia on Friday (July 31, 2025) welcomed the return of two wounded soldiers who had been captured by the Thai Army after … Read more

Trump administration freezes $339M in UCLA grants and accuses the school of rights violations

Trump administration freezes $339M in UCLA grants and accuses the school of rights violations

Children play outside Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles. | Photo Credit: AP The Trump administration is freezing $339 million in research grants to the University of California, Los Angeles, accusing the school of civil rights violations related to antisemitism, affirmative action and women’s sports, according to a … Read more

Eight new Indian Consular Application Centres inaugurated across U.S.

Eight new Indian Consular Application Centres inaugurated across U.S.

India has opened eight new consular centres across the U.S., significantly expanding the delivery footprint for visa, passport and other services and streamlining them to make them more accessible and efficient for the Indian diaspora in the country. India’s Ambassador to the U.S. Vinay Kwatra on Friday (August 1, 2025) virtually inaugurated the new Indian … Read more

All about India-U.S. trade: Infographics

All about India-U.S. trade: Infographics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump deliver a joint press statement after their meeting at the White House, in Washington, DC on Feb. 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (July 31, 2025) announced a 25% tariff on Indian imports into the U.S., effective August 1, following … Read more

Tesla ordered by Florida jury to pay $243 million in fatal Autopilot crash

Tesla ordered by Florida jury to pay $243 million in fatal Autopilot crash

A Florida jury on Friday found Tesla liable to pay $243 million to victims of a 2019 fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, a verdict that could encourage more legal action against Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company. The verdict is a rare win for victims of accidents involving Autopilot. Mr. Musk has been pushing … Read more

Bangladesh’s Yunus congratulates his trade negotiators on securing ‘landmark’ deal with U.S.

Bangladesh's Yunus congratulates his trade negotiators on securing 'landmark' deal with U.S.

Muhammad Yunus, interim head of the Bangladesh government. | Photo Credit: Reuters Interim government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Friday (August 1, 2025) congratulated his trade negotiators on securing a “landmark” deal with the U.S., which reduced its tariff rate on goods from Bangladesh to 20%, a significant reduction from the previous 35%. “We proudly … Read more

U.S. limits official visits to Karachi hotels after threat report

U.S. limits official visits to Karachi hotels after threat report

Guests are gather outside a Regent Plaza Hotel following a fire in the Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. | Photo Credit: AFP The United States has temporarily limited visits by government personnel to high-end hotels in Karachi, Pakistan, after receiving a report of a threat, the State Department said on Friday (August 1, 2025). “The … Read more

Coaches of passenger train derail in Pakistan, at least 30 injured

Coaches of passenger train derail in Pakistan, at least 30 injured

A closeup view of the wheels of a train | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto At least 30 passengers were injured after several coaches of a train derailed near Lahore, officials said on Saturday (August 2, 2025). According to the Pakistan Railways, the Islamabad Express that was going to Rawalpindi from Lahore derailed at Kala Shah … Read more

Nationalist agendas fuelled the border fight between Thailand and Cambodia

Nationalist agendas fuelled the border fight between Thailand and Cambodia

On the morning of July 24, Thai and Cambodian troops clashed at multiple locations along their 800-km border. Following five days of fighting that resulted in 43 deaths (including civilians) and the displacement of more than 300,000 people, both sides arrived at a ceasefire that took effect on July 29. Mediated by ASEAN chair Malaysia, … Read more