U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) to intervene in its efforts to withhold billions of dollars from foreign aid organisations and lift an injunction that is forcing it to keep making payments. The U.S. Department of Justice, in … Read more
Hanan Balkhy, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean said on April 20 the United States slashing foreign aid risks piling pressure on already acute humanitarian crises across the globe, also warning against withdrawing from the U.N. agency | Photo Credit: AFP The United States slashing foreign aid risks piling pressure on … Read more
U.S. Agency for International Development flag. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A federal appeals court on Friday (March 28, 2025) lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The lawsuit was among of the first filed against Mr. Musk himself. It argued … Read more
MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. File | Photo Credit: ANI India on Friday (February 21, 2025) said that the reports about USAID’s alleged $21 million funding ‘for voter turnout’ in India is “deeply troubling” and has led to concerns regarding foreign interference in India’s internal affairs. Addressing a press briefing, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson … Read more
Amid rumours of a crack in friendship, US President Donald Trump called Elon Musk “terrific” and said he got “great help” from the tech magnate, whom he appointed to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut federal spending. “I’ve had great help from Elon Musk, who’s been terrific. He’s not gaining anything. In … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 07, 2025) WASHINGTON: A US-funded transgender clinic in Hyderabad is among the thousands of programs fed into the “woodchipper” as Donald Trump‘s MAGA minions led by Elon Musk gutted USAID, the US government’s main foreign aid agency, summarily firing most of 10,000 plus work force in the US … Read more
In pursuit of America First, US President Donald Trump is dismantling globalisation which has come to define the world in the post-Cold War era, or at least dislodging America from the pivotal role it has played in globalisation. Under American leadership, the world had got itself global institutions for trade, governance, security and social action. … Read more
India, which has taken proactive steps to reduce neonatal mortality, is likely to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets in this key area by 2030, a top WHO official has said, citing data on the annual rate of reduction for newborn deaths in the country between 2016 and 2021. “India has taken important steps … Read more
New Delhi: Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence has announced the deployment of an AI solution titled Comprehensive Loss to Follow-Up And Mortality Prediction (CLAMP-TB), developed under the USAID-supported TRACE-TB Project. The AI solution will help to predict the risk of ‘loss to follow-up’ (LFU) and mortality among TB patients when they start TB treatment from … Read more
India’s ambitious Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) will host the fifth edition of ‘International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure’ (ICDRI 2023) on April 4-5 with an aim to scale up potential solutions for a more resilient world and facilitating disaster and climate adaptation objectives. The theme of the conference is Delivering Resilient and Inclusive … Read more