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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicUS Department of State

Topic: US Department of State

Houston horror: Employee beheads Indian-origin motel manager in front of wife & kids; murder on CCTV

Killer went on to kick around man's severed head in a parking lot. Victim identified as Chandra Nagamallaiah. Accused Yordanis Cobos-Martinez in custody of Dallas police.

US dials Jaishankar & Shehbaz Sharif, calls for de-escalation. ISI chief named Pakistan NSA

EAM Jaishankar says he discussed the Pahalgam attack with US Secretary of State Rubio, and ‘its perpetrators, backers and planners must be brought to justice’.

Indian scholar self-deports after US revokes visa alleging support for Hamas

Ranjani Srinivasan, Indian national & a doctoral student at Columbia University, was involved in activities supporting Haas, a terrorist organisation, said the US Department of State press release.

US says won’t be satisfied without ‘meaningful accountability’ from India’s ‘Pannun plot’ probe

State Dept says ‘valuable engagement’ took place between US authorities & Indian high-level inquiry committee looking into alleged murder-for-hire plot, and expects to see further steps.

Two India-registered firms face US sanctions for ‘using deceptive practices’ to ship LNG from Russia

US Department of State issued statement saying it was imposing additional sanction measures to 'degrade' Russia’s attempts to operationalise its Arctic LNG 2 project.

Days before Trump goes, US releases report pointing finger at Wuhan lab for Covid origin

In a statement, US Department of State says researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology fell sick much before first Covid case was officially recorded in December in the city.

American national allegedly killed by protected tribe in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

A case of culpable homicide has been registered, and the fishermen who took John Allen Chau, 27, to the island have been arrested. 

On Camera

What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.