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NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday rejected recent claims by Donald Trump, declaring that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President “share a friendly relationship based on mutual respect.”Addressing the weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “Prime Minister Modi and President Trump have a friendly relationship and have always…

KOLKATA: Aftershocks of the showdown between Enforcement Directorate (ED) and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over raids on Trinamool-linked political consultancy I-PAC jolted Calcutta high court Friday, prompting Justice Suvra Ghosh to postpone hearing petitions filed by either side till Jan 14 on grounds of “enormous disturbance and commotion” in the courtroom.The judge, seemingly annoyed…

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen (AP file photo) Denmark has warned that its troops are under standing orders to “shoot first and ask questions later” if Greenland comes under attack, as anxiety grows in Europe over the United States under President Donald Trump openly weighing military action to seize the Arctic territory.The country’s defence ministry said…

The TOI correspondent from Washington: US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has offered a blunt and unusually personal account of why a long-anticipated US–India trade agreement failed to materialise, placing the blame squarely on timing, political hesitation in New Delhi, and what he described as President Donald Trump’s deliberately competitive approach to deal-making. Among the reasons…

NEW DELHI: Family members of jailed student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam expressed disappointment and anguish after the Supreme Court declined to grant them bail in the 2020 Delhi riots case, observing that the two stood on a “qualitatively different footing” from five other accused who were granted relief on Monday.Khalid’s family said the…

A Hindu widow in Bangladesh was tortured, raped and tied to a tree before her hair was cut by two local men, one of which had “an evil eye on the woman and made repeated indecent advances,” according to local outlet Bangladesh Partidin.In the tragic incident, which happened in Jhenaidah district on Saturday night, the…

Hindu businessman Khokon Das, who was attacked with sharp weapons and set afire in Bangladesh, died on Saturday while receiving treatment in the Natioal Burn Institute in Dhaka.According to the news agency ANI, professor of the National Burn Institute Dr Shaon Bin Rahman confirmed his death. Another Hindu Targeted In Bangladesh, Wife Alleges Trader Hacked…

With over 200 people from the area admitted in as many as 27 hospitals across Indore, lanes of Bhagirathpura are empty INDORE: A deathly silence prevails in Bhagirathpura area of Indore. Barring a few people at makeshift medical camps, its lanes are empty. With over 200 people from the area admitted in as many as…

A 22-year-old Telangana engineering student, Thokala Hruthik Reddy, tragically died in Germany after jumping from his burning apartment on New Year’s Eve HYDERABAD: A 22-year-old engineering student from Telangana died after jumping from his apartment during a fire in Germany on Dec 31, triggering appeals from his family for help to bring his body home….

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday spoke about India’s neighbourhood policy, saying that “you can have bad neighbours… unfortunately, we do” a veiled swipe at Pakistan.Ties between New Delhi and Islamabad, long strained, further deteriorated after the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, an attack was designed…