FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The Yeristovo and Poltava iron ore mine in Ukraine - Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg
The European Union is pushing for its own deal to share Ukraine’s mineral wealth as Donald Trump closed in on an agreement to secure mining rights as part of a peace agreement.
Stephane Sejourne, the bloc’s industry commissioner, quietly pushed Europe’s alternative deal on a visit to...
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to hire federal employees who have been fired as a result of cuts spearheaded by Elon Musk's DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency.
"The federal government might say, 'You're fired,' but here in New York, we say, 'You're hired.' In fact, we love federal workers," Hochul said in a message posted on...
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Airline passengers have experienced serious disruptions at Washington’s Reagan National Airport because of new rules that trigger runway closures when President Donald Trump flies to and from the White House aboard his helicopter, according to people aware of the restrictions, flight tracking data and federal records.
The stricter requirements — imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration after the...
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron tried Monday to bend President Donald Trump back to the side of Kyiv and Europe, after an intense White House effort to end the war in Ukraine in which the U.S. leader blamed Ukraine, not Russia, for the invasion by the Kremlin three years ago.
Meeting Trump in the Oval Office Macron scrambled to...
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Friedrich Merz says he is eager to re-engage with international partners. - Getty Images
Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, didn't wait for the final results of his country's election on Sunday to herald a new era in Europe.
Declaring the US indifferent to this continent's fate, Friedrich Merz questioned the future of Nato and demanded Europe boost its own defences. Quickly.
This tone...
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
Vishnu: The Preserver
“परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥”
(Bhagavad Gita 4.8)
"To protect the righteous, to annihilate the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I appear in every age."
Life is a constant battle between creation and destruction, righteousness and chaos. But what happens when dharma (cosmic order) is threatened? Hindu mythology answers this through two powerful forces—Vishnu, the...
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
There comes a point in life when you realize that truth and perception are two very different things.
You could be honest, well-intentioned, even entirely blameless—but if the world decides otherwise, what then?
Do you spend your days explaining yourself to those who have already made up their minds?
Do you fight every accusation, every whisper, every lie? Or do...
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya on Friday pointed out that constitutionalism and having a constitution are different concepts, using Hitler's rise to dictatorship as an example.
Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya made a stern statement at the 29th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture on Friday about the importance of rule of law. He emphasised...
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin (Image/ X@mkstalin)
Tamil Nadu will not implement National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the state’s Chief Minister MK Stalin said. Even if the Centre offered to provide Rs 10,000 crore in funds to the state, Tamil Nadu will continue its opposition to the NEP as it is only due to the “imposition of...
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
President George H.W. Bush meets with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney among others while seated at the C&O desk (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Donald Trump has temporarily removed the iconic Resolute Desk used by his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama from the Oval Office and replaced it with the C&O desk.
Crafted from the once-abandoned British...
