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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: United States

15,000 Indians stranded abroad to be brought back on ‘compelling grounds’

A total of 64 flights will be operated from 12 countries. Passengers would be charged Rs 50,000 each for London-Delhi flight & Rs 1 lakh from the US.

US scientists guarding precious living collections during Covid lockdown

Hundreds of scientists are fighting against pandemic to protect everything from crickets, to tissue cultures, mice, powdery mildews, zebrafish and even rust fungi.

US runs out of emergency medical supplies needed to fight coronavirus

Recently, Russia sent a cargo plane carrying 60 tonnes of medical supplies, including ventilators and masks to the US, to help in treating coronavirus patients.

Chinese envoy to US disagrees with Beijing that coronavirus came from American military lab

Donald Trump has taken to calling the pandemic the “Chinese virus” and has blamed US’s outbreak on China’s early failures to control the disease.

Coronavirus death toll crosses 100 in US as outbreak spreads to all 50 states

The first fatality was reported from Washington state on 26 February. Less than a month later, the toll has reached 105 with 6,500 infections.

Coronavirus cases cross 80,000 in China, 90 in US as global death toll crosses 3,056

Chinese officials said the number of confirmed cases was the lowest on Monday since the country began reporting on the epidemic and it's showing signs of stabilising.

US and Australia report first deaths caused by coronavirus

President Trump says first coronavirus death was ‘high-risk patient’. In Australia, 78-yr-old who died in Perth hospital was quarantined aboard Diamond Princess cruise ship.

Coronavirus pandemic spreads to US West Coast as four new cases confirmed

Most of the infected people had no known links to countries hit by coronavirus outbreak or other patients.

India’s polarised politics is a bigger national security threat than Pakistan, China

The most pressing threat to India’s standing in the world comes not from China’s expansionism or roguish activity of Pakistan but from polarised Indian politics.

Iran has admitted to shooting down a plane. Putin still won’t

There appears to be an internal debate within the Russian establishment on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?