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The Democratic Party dealt a major blow to President Donald Trump in the 2026 US midterm elections, flipping the Georgia gubernatorial mansion with Keisha Lance Bottoms’ historic win and flipping key Senate seats in North Carolina and South Carolina. While Indian-Americans Pia Dandiya and Suhas Subramanyam captured US House seats and Aruna Miller retained Maryland’s lieutenant governorship, Trump-endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy lost Ohio’s gubernatorial race, pushing Democrats to the edge of retaking the House.
Celebrated British actor Sir Patrick Stewart has passed away at the age of 86. Rising from a childhood marked by domestic hardship and going completely bald by age 19, Stewart built a formidable career with the Royal Shakespeare Company before capturing global stardom as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor X in the X-Men franchise. Knighted in 2010, the Yorkshire-born legend proved that classical discipline and character can redefine modern popular culture.
At least 14 people were killed and over a dozen wounded when a Russian drone struck a busy railway platform in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday, part of a wider wave of air strikes that killed at least 19 people nationwide. The attack on Ukraine’s transport infrastructure followed an overnight barrage of more than 600 Ukrainian drones directed at the Moscow region while the Russian capital hosted an African leaders’ summit, highlighting intensifying long-range strikes ahead of planned US-mediated talks.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been in detention for two decades. But it has not diminished her political stature, it has only altered its firm. The Nobel Laureate was once the voice of moral resistance. Now she is a silent symbol in a country where silence itself has become a weapon.
William Mark Tully, who passed away recently had become more of an institution than an individual scribe. Credibility was the middle name of the man who reported momentous events from India for the BBC.
India has been invited by U.S. President Donald Trump to be part of the Board of Peace for Gaza, sources in New Delhi said on Sunday (January 18, 2026). The information was also disseminated by the U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor who shared a letter on social media from Mr. Trump to Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting India’s participation in the Board of Peace for Gaza.
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday said his people “choose Denmark” and “choose NATO” instead of the United States, amid President Trump’s calls for the island territory to be annexed into the union.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday (January 6, 2026) said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “not that happy with me” because of the tariffs imposed by Washington on Delhi for its purchases of Russian oil
Hours after a radical group in Dhaka announced a march to the Indian High Commission on Wednesday (December 17, 2025) afternoon, to protest India’s alleged interference in Bangladeshi politics, the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi summoned the High Commissioner of Bangladesh Riaz Hamidullah and reminded him about his government’s responsibility to ensure the security and safety of India’s mission and visa facilities in Bangladesh.
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