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31 Dec

Year Ender 2025: Starting with expectations, Trump ends year knotted in controversies

New York, Dec 31 (IANS) The year began with expectations as President Donald Trump stepped up to lead the US. He, however, ended 2025 knotted in chaos and controversies. After four years of drift under his predecessor Joe Biden, 2025 started with Trump promising decisive action. But, as the year ends, the foreign policy and the voter's personal finances are in disarray. The US underwent a centralisation of power, perhaps unprecedented in the post-World War II era, that Trump's political, economic, trade, and, even, social policies this year seem aligned with the nation's. The US alliances and geopolitical interests have…

31 Dec

Putin wants Trump back as President: Retd US Army General

New York, Dec 31, Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "actively hoping" that former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 Presidential election as Putin felt "Trump's persecution was politically motivated reflecting the rottenness of the American political system". Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, has long been praised by Putin (even suspected of trying to interfere in the 2016 campaign to influence voters) and the former President has often quoted the Russian leader on the campaign trail. The Russian President himself faces the electorate in his country facing a…

15 Dec

I don’t think Trump is right person to be President right now: Haley

Washington, Dec 15, Indian-American Nikki Haley, who has emerged as a strong contender in the Republican presidential primary race, doesn't think her rival Donald Trump is the right person to be President at the moment. During the fourth Republican debate on December 6, Haley, the former South Carolina Governor, did not answer whether Trump is fit to be Ppresident, but she told ABC News that it is not about fitness but rather Trump is just not the right person to be President right now. "It's not about fitness. I think he's fit to be President. It's 'Should he be President?'…

20 Jul

Trump loses retrial bid in defamation case

Washington, July 20, Former US President Donald Trump has lost a retrial bid in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming columnist E Jean Carroll. E. Jean Carroll, 79, had accused Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and then branding the incident a hoax in an October 2022 post on his Truth Social platform. The jury found Trump guilty of battering the columnist, but stopped short of finding the former President guilty of rape. Trump has been ordered to pay $5 million in damages. The…

24 Jun

Modi ends US visit with a ringing endorsement of Biden

Washington, June 24, While ending his four-day US visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is an astute politician, left behind a gift for his host, President Joe Biden: a resounding endorsement. "Over the last three days, we have been together continuously," Modi said on Friday in his address to a packed auditorium of Indian-Americans who had travelled from all over the US. Modi was at the White House for a private dinner on Wednesday, the day he arrived here from New York, and the whole of next morning, starting with a ceremonial reception, which was followed by bilateral talks and a…

14 Feb

Parrikar not concerned with America First call

Bengaluru: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said the "America First" call of US President Donald Trump is not a concern for India or the Make in India programme. Asked if Trump's America First would come in the way of Make in India and stop US firms from participating in the programme, Parrikar said: "You should have put this question to Boeing, they are there at the exhibition... Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc." "What I will say is what I want... I want you to Make in India. If someone wants to shift production to some other place, it is his choice.…