Who is Saloni Khanna? Economist, educator, mock interviewer popular among UPSC aspirants, her education qualifications are…
UPSC examinations is one of the toughest examinations in India. In the civil services arena, there are several well known personalities including Vikas Divyakirti (Vision IAS), Dr Tanu Jain, and Vijender Chauhan. One of the famous name is Saloni Khanna.
At least 2 dead after massive explosion in firecracker factory in ??Lucknow, here’s what we know so far
At least 2 dead after massive explosion in firecracker factory in ??Lucknow. The explosion was very intense, causing severe damage to the factory walls. The explosion was so loud that it can be heard from very far distance.
TikTok to make comeback in India? Chinese app makes BIG move amid PM Modi’s China visit, here’s how Indian govt reacted
The Chinese app TikTok has taken a step that has fueled speculation about its return to India. However, the Indian government has responded to these developments and has issued a statement. Read here to know India’s current stance on TikTok’s return.
India to US postal services suspended: Not even personal letters, low-value gifts to be sent to US; here’s why
The competent authority has decided to completely suspend all categories of mail to the USA, including letters/documents and gifts valued up to $100, here’s know why Indians no longer can sent letters, gifts and other items to the US?
PM Modi-Xi Jinping meet slammed by AAP, Congress: ‘Ask China to return our land’
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the SCO summit, Aam Admi Party (AAP), Congress and other oppostion leaders slammed the visit. Why AAP and Congress criticised the PM Modi-Xi Jinping’s talks?
Monsoon havoc in Himachal Pradesh: State suffers lose of over Rs 30000 lakh, death toll reaches 320, several roads disrupted
The monsoon this year is creating a havoc in many states across India. The worst hit states are Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, Heavy rains have triggered cloudbursts, flash floods, landslides in these states. In Himachal Pradesh, the rains have caused a severe damage.
PM Modi gets Xi Jinping’s preferred Hongqi car for commute during China visit, know all about it
PM Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a closely-observed bilateral meeting on Sunday. During the meet, Jinping reportedly said it was the need of the hour for “the Dragon and the Elephant” to come together, referring to China and India. Read on to know more on this.
School Holidays in September 2025: Schools, colleges likely to remain closed on THESE dates
With so many important days, students often wonder if schools will remain open on these festivals.
Trump cancels $4.9B foreign aid, pushes DC death penalty, touts Kim ties
President Donald Trump closed out his week by informing Congress he is revoking nearly $5 billion in foreign aid that Congress already had approved as the legislative branch faces an Oct. 1 deadline to fund the government or deal with a shutdown. Trump is rescinding the funding using a pocket rescission. Unlike a typical rescission request that allows Congress to sign off on nixing the approved funding within 45-days, a pocket rescission sidesteps Congress because it’s so close to the end of the fiscal year that the legislative branch can’t act accordingly. “Last night, President Trump CANCELED $4.9 billion in America Last foreign aid using a pocket rescission,” the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said on X on Friday. “[President Donald Trump] will always put AMERICA FIRST!” WHITE HOUSE MOVE TO CANCEL $4.9B FOREIGN AID WITH ‘POCKET RESCISSION’ BLASTED AS ILLEGAL Included in the slashed funds are roughly $520 million from the contributions to international organizations account, more than $390 million to the contributions for international peacekeeping activities account, $322 million from the democracy fund, $445 million from the Peacekeeping Operations account and more than $3 billion from development assistance. Meanwhile, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle aren’t happy about Trump’s decision to pull the funding. “Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law,” Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said in a Friday statement. Here’s what also happened this week: Trump kicked off the week Monday meeting with South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung. However, during the summit, he touted his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and said the two would meet “someday.” Trump met with Kim on three occasions during his first term in office for denuclearization talks — the first time in Singapore in 2018, and then twice in 2019 in Vietnam and within North Korea. TRUMP TOUTS KIM JONG UN RELATIONSHIP AMID SOUTH KOREA SUMMIT “I have very good relationships with Kim Jong UN, North Korea,” Trump told reporters at the White House Monday. “I mean, a lot of people would say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible.’ No, it’s good. In fact, someday I’ll see him. I look forward to seeing him. He was very good with me. We had two meeting — we had two summits. We got along great.” Although the current Trump administration has signaled ongoing interest in renewing denuclearization talks with North Korea, Pyongyang has not shown interest in denuclearizing. Trump disclosed that he plans to seek the death penalty in Washington for those convicted of murder as he continues his crime crackdown in the nation’s capital. “If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington, D.C., we’re going to be seeking the death penalty,” Trump told reporters during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting. “And that’s a very strong preventative. And everybody that’s heard it agrees with it. I don’t know if we’re ready for it in this country, but we have it. … We have no choice.” The Supreme Court ruled in 1972 in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment’s provision barring cruel and unusual punishment. Additionally, the D.C. Council officially rescinded the death penalty in 1981, according to the nonprofit organization the Death Penalty Information Center. DEATH PENALTY COULD RETURN IN NATION’S CAPITAL UNDER TRUMP’S DC CRIME CRACKDOWN It’s unclear exactly how the White House intends to launch this effort and no additional details were immediately available. The White House referred Fox News Digital back to Trump’s comments at the Cabinet meeting. However, Trump signed an executive order in January titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety.” The order instructs the attorney general to “pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use.” “Capital punishment is an essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes and acts of lethal violence against American citizens,” the order said. “Before, during, and after the founding of the United States, our cities, States, and country have continuously relied upon capital punishment as the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes.” Trump also waded into the discussion about whether Cracker Barrel should update its logo, and urged the restaurant chain to reverse its decision to change its logo to remove “Uncle Herschel.” “Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll), and manage the company better than ever before,” Trump said in a Tuesday social media post. Later Tuesday, Cracker Barrel announced that it had listened to customers and that the new logo was “going away” and the previous one that had been in place since 1977 would remain. The White House appeared to take credit for igniting the change, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X, “8 hours ago…” with a screenshot of Trump’s original social media post, in response to Cracker Barrel’s update about reverting to the previous logo. “Congratulations ‘Cracker Barrel’ on changing your logo back to what it was. All of your fans very much appreciate it,” Trump said in a subsequent social media post Tuesday. Fox News’ Alex Miller contributed to this report.
Top DNC official demands Dems be ‘more aggressive,’ compares Trump admin to popular carjacking video game
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta is among the party’s leaders calling for Democrats to become “more aggressive in making life better for people.” It was a common theme as more than 400 DNC committee members from all 50 states and seven territories huddled this past week for their summer meeting, which was held in Minnesota’s largest city. As Democrats hunger for more forceful resistance against President Donald Trump’s sweeping and controversial agenda, DNC Chair Ken Martin kicked off the three-day confab by targeting the president, arguing Trump’s acting as “a dictator-in-chief” and that his second administration is “fascism dressed in a red tie.” Martin, pointing to the forceful response by Democrats to moves this summer by Trump and Republicans to create more right-leaning U.S. House seats in states across the country through rare mid-decade congressional redistricting ahead of next year’s midterm elections, told committee members that he’s “sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight.” DNC CHAIR DEMANDS DEMOCRATS ‘STOP BRINGING A PENCIL TO A KNIFE FIGHT’ “We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore,” he urged. Kenyatta, a 35-year-old state lawmaker from battleground Pennsylvania who was elected as a DNC vice chair in February, is echoing that message. “We’ve been playing checkers. They’re playing Grand Theft Auto,” Kenyatta said about the Trump administration and the Republicans, as he referred to the long-running and popular action-adventure video game series that revolves around carjacking and shooting. “They’ve stolen their next car, and they’re running over the fire hydrant.” DEMOCRATS DIVIDED: TENSIONS FLARE OVER WAR IN GAZA Kenyatta, who has traveled extensively across the country in his new role, emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview on the sidelines of the DNC meeting that Democrats “have to engage in a level of fight, not power for power’s sake, but we have to fight hard because we understand what’s at stake for working people and working families.” He claimed that while Democrats work “to make life better for workers” and are “in this for the people, Donald Trump, the Republican Party, are in this for the billionaires. They can say differently, but if you look at what they do when they’re in power, they make life better for billionaires. Make life suck for us.” And Kenyatta, pointing to Trump’s immense dominance over the GOP, argued that Democrats “don’t have a leader that demands fealty, who throws up Kim Jong Un-style signs of himself around our nation’s capital. There are no signs hanging around here of Ken Martin or of me, or of anybody else.” But Democrats face a multitude of problems as they try to escape the political wilderness. Democrats are aiming to rebound after last year’s elections, when the party lost control of the White House and the Senate and fell short in their bid to win back the House majority. And Republicans made gains with voters who make up key parts of the Democratic Party’s base. And the situation has only deteriorated for the Democrats in the 10 months since last year’s election setbacks, according to key metrics. DNC MEMBERS RALLY AROUND PRO-DEI RESOLUTION The Democrats’ brand is deeply unpopular, especially with younger voters, as the party’s poll numbers continue to drop to all-time lows in national surveys. And the DNC faces a massive fundraising deficit at the hands of the rival Republican National Committee (RNC), as well as concerns over lagging party registration. Former RNC chair Michael Whatley, who formally stepped down earlier this month as he runs for the Senate, argued in a Fox News Digital interview that the Democrats “are moving further and further and farther to the left. They are walking away from Main Street right now. They are beholden to left-wing radical woke policies.” “They haven’t learned a single thing from their election losses in 2024,” Whatley claimed. But Kenyatta is optimistic heading into next year’s midterm elections, when the Democrats will try to win back majorities in Congress, and Republicans, as the party in power, may face the traditional political headwinds. Pointing to Trump, Kenyatta said the “Democratic Party is going to stand in his way every single step of the way. And we’re going to do it by winning elections up and down the ballot. And we’re certainly going to do it by winning back the House of Representatives in 2026.”