The US has exempted India and 19 other nations from its new 100% Section 232 tariff on patented pharmaceuticals, covering specialty drugs for rare diseases, gene therapies and veterinary medicine. Generic drugs and their ingredients remain entirely outside the tariff's scope.
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Trump signs a commission making Marco Rubio permanent national security adviser while he remains secretary of state, the first such dual role since Kissinger.
Trump tells the UN General Assembly that AI will be renamed "super intelligence" in US documents, while rejecting global oversight of the technology.
India's 157th rank on the 2026 World Press Freedom Index puts it below Qatar, the Philippines, and near war zones, even as Trump banned three US outlets.
Trump announces a ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over "fake news," though no clear enforcement steps have followed the post.
DHS deletes AI-generated "Mr Singh" deportation poster after Sikh groups, lawmakers and Hasbro accuse the agency of racial profiling and unauthorised use of Transformers imagery.
Donald Trump has promised a $5,000 "dividend" to every American adult if Republicans win the midterms, drawing skepticism over its trillion-dollar cost and legality, while Indian social media compared...
President Trump on August 28 announced a deal with Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez giving the US 55% effective control of a new joint venture holding 65 billion barrels of proven oil re...
The United States formally removed Syria from its State Sponsors of Terrorism list on August 24, ending a 47-year designation and simultaneously delisting Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a global terrorist or...
President Trump posted a Strait of Hormuz map labelled "New US Territory" on August 18 after the 60-day US-Iran MOU deadline expired without a broader deal. Iran's top negotiator Ghalibaf said the Str...
Niger, Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Indonesia tightened anti-LGBTQ laws in 2026, while over 60 nations still criminalise same-sex conduct. India, where homosexuality was decriminalised in 2018 bu...
President Trump on August 18 invoked India's 2024 general election, 646 million voters, all with photo ID, less than 1% mail-in to push Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. He cited Chief Election C...
President Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce" Ulchi Freedom Shield joint exercises with South Korea on August 16, citing his relationship with Kim Jong Un and Seoul'...
Iranian Army Commander-in-Chief Amir Hatami announced a $30,000 bounty for killing or capturing US soldiers on August 16, doubled to $60,000 for Iranian women, citing citizen requests for financial pa...
The Senior Citizen Rights Handbook is a comprehensive guide designed to empower elderly citizens with clear and accessible knowledge of their legal and social rights in India.
