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Topic: USAID

‘Attempt to get somebody else elected’: Trump says must tell Modi govt about $21 mn USAID on polls

Washington’s cost-cutting agency DOGE, headed by Elon Musk, has disbanded USAID & cancelled 15 pledged grants to other countries.

As Congress-BJP row over USAID funding deepens, why Smriti Irani is caught in the crossfire

Apart from Irani, Congress has also slammed S Jaishankar & Piyush Goel for endorsing USAID during Modi government’s tenure & asked how much funding BJP-led NDA had got from USAID.

Despite concerns from lawmakers, USAID funded American charity linked to banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa

The under-fire agency gave thousands of dollars to Michigan-based HHRD that had ties with Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) & Milli Muslim League (MML), also banned in US.

Bangladesh braces for fallout of USAID suspension with health sector to bear brunt

USAID has directed its partners in Bangladesh to immediately halt any work under their contract in wake of Trump administration's executive order suspending nearly all US foreign aid.

Musk leads federal cost-cutting panel, aims to shut down ‘beyond repair’ USAID

USAID is the world’s largest single donor. It provided 42% of all humanitarian aid tracked by the United Nations in 2024.

Trump administration memo tells USAID to put “America First” in reviewing foreign aid

The sharply-worded memo sent Saturday to USAID staff effectively put a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide.

USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health to visit India

Atul Gawande, Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the USAID, will also engage with government officials, healthcare professionals in New Delhi, Dewas, and Indore.

9 cameras on you, empty boxes and a Little Red Book—The Tibet Museum in India is must-visit

From witness paintings to sampa-grinders, the Tibet Museum in McLeod Ganj is the clearest example of ‘the personal is the political’.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.