The US president, who had just returned from an Asia trip, said these kind of mass shootings rarely happened anywhere else. 'Why are we willing to live with this carnage?' he asked.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz described the shooting as "truly horrific", but said gun reforms would not prevent such crimes. Biden, however, urged action to control the gun lobby.
Here's what's happening across the border: Parents of Pak student killed in Texas school shooting sue shooter’s family, and Reham Khan speaks up against corporal punishment in schools.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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