‘Trump has said India a great country’: US in firefight mode after president’s ‘hellhole’ remark | India News

PM Modi and US President Donald Trump (File photo) NEW DELHI: The US embassy in New Delhi was in full damage-control mode on Thursday following President Donald Trump’s social media post referring to India and China as “hell holes”.Spokesperson Christopher Elm sought to defuse tensions by quoting Trump’s past praise for India and Prime Minister…

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CEC holds review meeting for first-phase polling in Bengal | India News

NEW DELHI: A day before campaigning for the first phase of polls in Bengal winds up, CEC Gyanesh Kumar reviewed polling arrangements in the state. “EC will leave no stone unturned to hold elections that are fear-free, violence-free, intimidation-free, inducement-free, chhaapa-free, booth jamming-free and source jamming-free,” he said Monday. EC suspends Bhowanipore executive magistrates EC…

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Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath headline CAC; sweeping changes in the KSCA selection panel | Cricket News

Former cricketer Anil Kumble, Venkatesh Prasad and Javagal Srinath during a press conference on the upcoming KSCA election. (Image: PTI/Shailendra Bhojak) BENGALURU: The newly elected managing committee of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has made sweeping changes to the selection committees and their structure.Ahead of the overhaul, a high-profile Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) was…

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‘No one can rank my Americanness’: Indian-origin Mehek Cooke backs Vivek Ramaswamy’s rejection of ‘heritage Americanism’

Indian-origin MAGA lawyer and ‘Trump surrogate’ Mehek Cooke weighed in on the growing debate inside the US conservative movement, saying that ‘Americanness ‘ cannot be ranked by ancestry. She backed GOP leader and fellow Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy’s rejection of “heritage Americanism”.Posting on X, Cooke said that she came into the US legally and embraced the…

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