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POTUS signs order to ease federal restrictions on medical marijuana
By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing the federal government to move marijuana from the most restrictive category of controlled substances.
He argued the step would expand…
Kennedy Center renamed Trump-Kennedy Center
By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday announced that the board of the Kennedy Center has voted unanimously to rename the iconic performing arts institution as the Trump-Kennedy Center.…
7 died in plane crash at US North Carolina airport
By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON - US state of North Carolina, police said on Friday that 7 people were killed after a small jet crashed at a regional airport in Statesville.
According to the police, those killed in the crash were former…
Former Iraqi President Salih elected as next UNHCR head
By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS - Former Iraqi president Barham Salih, who was once a refugee, has been elected as the next UN High Commissioner for Refugees at a time when the agency faces the twin crises of shrinking resources and a huge…
India distributes assistance Kits, restores bridge in Sri Lanka post cyclone Ditwah
By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON - High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha on Friday distributed assistance kits under India’s assistance to Sri Lanka as Cyclone Ditwah wreaked havoc
Cyclone Ditwah had affected the Kolonnawa…
Tharoor Slams Mob Violence in Bangladesh
Shashi Tharoor condemns mob rule and violence in Bangladesh
Hindu man lynched amid unrest triggered by activist’s killing
Seven arrested by Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion
Tharoor urges peace, stability and democratic…
UN mission says Bangladeshi peacekeepers bodies repatriated
By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS - UN Interim Security Force for Abyei on Friday said that the bodies of 6 UN peacekeepers killed in a drone attack on the camp in Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan, last weekend were transported to Bangladesh.…
Dhurandhar: A Cinema Stops Pretending begins Speaking Truth
Poonam Sharma
Dhurandhar is not just a film—it is a moment in Indian cinema when storytelling decides to stop whispering and starts speaking plainly. From its first frame to its last unsettling silence, the film announces that it has no…
UNSC renews peacekeeping mission in eastern DRC, cites M23 offensives
By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS -UN Security Council on Friday unanimously extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a year, as fighting in eastern intensified after renewed offensives…
When Passion Leaves the Classroom: India’s Silent Teacher Crisis
Poonam Sharma
For generations, teaching in India was never merely a profession. It was a calling. A teacher was not a “worker,” not a “resource,” not a line item in a budget—but a moral anchor of society. Someone who did not merely…