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ASSOCHAM Recommends Measures To Strengthen Rupee Trade Settlement Framework

New Delhi, June 17 -- Industry body ASSOCHAM has submitted a detailed representation to the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), recommending measures to strengthen the rupee and expand its... Read More


Pakistan Back in Washington's Lap

Srinagar, June 17 -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would be really proud of himself-and he has all the reasons to be so. After all, by successfully stopping US President Donald Trump from bo... Read More


Israel leaves families permanently displaced in Syria's Quneitra

Quneitra, June 17 -- Families in Syria's southern Quneitra province remain permanently displaced after Israeli forces expanded their military presence in the region following the fall of former presid... Read More


White House UFC attack plot linked to 12 suspects across four states; new details emerge

India, June 17 -- New court filings and investigative documents have shed light on the alleged plot targeting the White House during President Donald Trump's UFC Freedom 250 event, with reports linkin... Read More


'Ponies' merges comedy with a gritty spy story in TV dramedy

New Delhi, June 17 -- "Ponies" is a bit of a unicorn. The Peacock series that stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as widows of CIA operatives who become intelligence assets in the 1970s Sovie... Read More


India attracts capital. Why can't it keep it?

New Delhi, June 17 -- India's foreign direct investment (FDI) data for 2025-26 contains two facts that ought to be read together but rarely are. Gross FDI inflows touched a record $94.53 billion, up ... Read More


China urges stronger Global South voice at UNPublished on: June 17, 2026 12:57 PM

BEIJING, June 17 -- China has called for greater representation of developing nations at the United Nations, arguing that emerging economies and countries from the Global South remain underrepresented... Read More


Does the Iran war diminish US superpower status?

India, June 17 -- The US is still unrivaled in its ability to project military strength around the world, but Iran's success in blocking the Strait of Hormuz has raised tough question on America's rol... Read More


Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran, its management to remain our responsibility: First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref

Tehran, June 17 -- Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has asserted that the Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran and that its management will remain the responsibility of the Islamic Republic,... Read More


OMCs get a breather from cooling oil prices, but the coast is not all clear

New Delhi, June 17 -- An imminent end to the West Asia war and the opening up of the Strait of Hormuz come as a big relief to Indian state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs). An agreement between the ... Read More