HYDERABAD/NAGPUR: When Mallojula Venugopal Rao joined the public relations department in undivided Andhra Pradesh’s Adilabad as an apprentice after graduation, few could have foreseen that he would spend the next three-and-a-half decades as one of India’s most...

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WASHINGTON: The US-China trade war deepened this week after Beijing tightened export controls on rare earth minerals, prompting sharp criticism from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who accused President Xi Jinping’s regime of taking “provocative” steps against...

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CHANDIGARH: In a disturbing repeat of an earlier tragedy, a Haryana police officer who had investigated former Rohtak IG Y. Puran Kumar in a corruption case died by suicide on Tuesday, leaving behind a three-page note and a video message claiming he was “sacrificing...

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified his decision to impose tariffs on Brics nations, claiming the economic alliance was “an attack on the dollar” and asserting that several countries were “dropping out” of the bloc. “I told anybody who wants...

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WASHINGTON: Ashley Tellis, an Indian-origin expert on South Asian affairs who served as a Pentagon contractor and unpaid adviser to the US State Department, has been arrested for allegedly retaining classified defense documents and meeting with Chinese officials over...

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CHENNAI: A seven-year-old boy died when an airbag deployed during a collision on Old Mahabalipuram Road near Thiruporur on Monday night. The child, identified as Kevin, son of Veeramuthu from Pudupattinam near Kalpakkam, was seated on his father’s lap in the front...

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