06 March 2025
Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada's Conservative Party and the current opposition leader, has made a significant pledge to restore a "professional relationship" with India if he assumes the role of Prime Minister. In a recent interview with Nepalese media outlet Namaste Radio Toronto, Poilievre expressed his concern over the growing "aggression" faced by Indian diplomats in Canada and the increasing instances of Hinduphobia within the country.
Politician and yesteryear actress Jayaprada suffered a legal setback on Friday with the Madras High Court directing her and the former partners of a cinema hall in Chennai to surrender before the jurisdictional magistrate and also deposit ₹20 lakh to get suspension of conviction and bail in a ESI case.
In August this year, the Metropolitan Magistrate in Chennai had sentenced the actor and other partners of a cinema theatre named after her to six months simple imprisonment for not having paid the dues of the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for former workers of the theatre.
American taxpayers could soon be coughing up nearly $100 billion to shore up US primacy and security -- including that of its allies Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan -- after President Joe Biden maintained that walking back from the three-front challenge would increase the cost and threats to America and to the world.
In only his second nighttime Oval Office address to the nation, Biden said, soon after his return from Israel, that his request to Congress for aid would be “a smart investment that’s going to pay dividends for American security for generations.”
Some high-ranking European delegates reportedly "boycotted" Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech in China on Wednesday.
The videos of delegates, including former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, walking out of the room before Putin's speech began have been circulating online.
Europe has strongly condemned Putin for ordering the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with the European Union slapping a slew on sanctions on Russia.
The Biden administration issued sanctions on Wednesday aimed at disrupting Hamas' funding, targeting what it said was "a secret Hamas investment portfolio," a financial facilitator tied to Iran and a Gaza-based virtual currency exchange, among others.
The sanctions, imposed under a terrorism-related executive order, targeted nine individuals and one entity based in Gaza and elsewhere including Sudan, Turkey, Algeria, and Qatar, the US Department of Treasury said in a statement.
