Author: Justin M. Larson

NEW DELHI: After becoming the first country to establish foreign university campuses in India with the entry of University of Wollongong and Deakin University, Australia is now extending its footprint into school education, as Western Australia’s WACE has become the first foreign govt-backed school board to begin operations in India, receiving equivalence from the Association of Indian Universities for its Class X and Class XII qualifications. This is the first such approval for a foreign board in India in 25 years.WACE, or Western Australian Certificate of Education, is the school-leaving qualification for students in Western Australia, administered by state’s School…

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The US Supreme Court in Washington (File photo) The US Supreme Court delivered two rulings in favour of the Trump administration on Friday regarding Department of Government Efficiency cases, including permitting access to Social Security databases with personal details of millions of US citizens. The court also limited transparency requirements for DOGE, formerly headed by Elon Musk.The court’s conservative majority supported the administration in these first Supreme Court appeals concerning DOGE, while the three liberal justices opposed both decisions, reported the Associated Press.These DOGE rulings emerge during a contentious falling out between the president and Musk following his White House…

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ALWAR: A 32-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a nursing staffer inside the surgical medical ICU of ESIC Medical College earlier this week, prompting police action and a hospital-level probe. The accused, Subhash Ghithala (30), has been barred from entering the hospital. The administration has also issued notices to the on-duty doctor and staff members, seeking their written responses. A committee has been formed to conduct an inquiry, and its findings are expected by Saturday evening.According to police, the woman had been admitted on June 2 for a tubectomy. After her surgery on June 4, she was shifted to the…

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NEW DELHI: In a dramatic turn of events, Canadian PM Mark Carney called PM Modi and invited him for the G7 summit that begins eight days from now at Kananaskis in Alberta. Modi accepted the invitation and said he was looking forward to meeting him at the summit.The announcement by Modi on X followed almost a week of suspense over his participation because of a lack of invitation, drawing barbs from the opposition about his possible exclusion from the summit. India is not a member of G7 but Modi has been invited for all summits since 2019. Modi congratulated Carney…

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When Amanda and Nick learnt their son had a life-limiting condition, they had no-one in the same situation to turn to. Jack is only 11 months old but is one of only 16 children in the world with a genetic condition that is so rare it doesn’t have a name. “We are going to outlive our child, and knowing that his brothers and his sister may one day have to say goodbye to him… I can’t even begin to explain how difficult that is to process each day,” said Amanda. But the mum said finding a woman in Georgia, USA,…

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NEW DELHI: A heavy-duty Apache attack helicopter of IAF was forced to make emergency landing in a field near UP’s Saharanpur Friday after the pilots received a technical snag warning on their flying panel in the cockpit.After extensive checks on the ground, the Apache was flown back to Sarsawa air station, around 12km from Saharanpur, later in the day. “There is no damage to the helicopter. All crew members are safe,” an official said.This comes after another Apache helicopter was badly damaged when it made a hard landing near Khardung La in Ladakh during an operational sortie on April 4…

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Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. The former mayor of Palmer Lake, Colorado, called people who were against land annexation for a Buc-ee’s store and other measures “terrorists” and “losers,” according to local media reports and text messages included in a lawsuit. Glant Havenar, who resigned from serving as the town’s mayor mid-week, used the insults when talking about people opposed to the project in text exchanges with a friend, 9News reported Thursday, citing court documents.Integrity Matters and other entities included the messages in a recent court filing for a lawsuit against the town in connection to the Buc-ee’s, according to…

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NEW DELHI: Continuing with his govt’s ‘decolonisation’ project, Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday launched an Indian languages section within the department of official language as a step towards dispensing with the role of English in official communication.”It would prove to be a milestone in the path to freeing administration from the influence of foreign languages,” Shah said as he announced the formation of Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag.So far, English had been relied upon for easy and faster official communication and filework between the Centre and non-Hindi speaking states and also among the latter. “We will definitely win the battle…

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NEW DELHI: The 4th India-Central Asia Dialogue saw the two sides stressing that perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of terrorist acts must be held accountable and brought to justice, while also unequivocally condemning the Pahalgam attack. In a joint statement, they underlined the need to strengthen UN-led global counterterrorism cooperation and fully implement the relevant UNSC resolutions, Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and FATF standards. External affairs minister S Jaishankar and his counterparts from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and Turkmenistan called on PM Narendra Modi after the Dialogue that saw focus on issues related to connectivity, trade, investment and counterterrorism. “India…

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NEW DELHI: The 11th Brics Parliamentary Forum has unequivocally condemned the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam in which 26 innocent civilians were masscared, triggering tensions with Pakistan that culminated with Operation Sindoor.”We express strong condemnation of any acts of terrorism as criminal and unustifiable regardless of their motivation, whenever, wherever and by whomsoever committed. We condemn in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April 2025,” said the forum whose members include China, Pakistan’s staunchest ally.The formulation, adopted by the forum after its three-day meeting in Brasilia where the Indian delegation was led by…

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NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Friday acquitted former coal ministry officials H C Gupta (secretary), K S Kropha (joint secretary), and K C Samaria (coal allocation director) in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of Jharkhand’s Mahuagarhi coal block to JAS Infrastructure Capital Pvt Ltd, a private company.The court of special judge Sanjay Bansal has convicted the firm and its director, Manoj Kumar Jayaswal. Arguments on their sentence will be heard on July 8.CBI alleged, JAS Infrastructure misrepresented facts in its application and fraudulently obtained allocation of the coal block. The public servants acted in a manner…

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