Day: April 18, 2025

JEE Main Session 2 Result 2025: In addition to the JEE Main 2025 Session 2 results, the All India Rank (AIR) list will be released. The rank list will comprise scores from both Session 1 and Session 2.

Businesses will be able to get GST registration within 7 days, while applications flagged as risky will be processed within 30 days after physical verification of the premises.

Advertised as a luxury music festival yet again, Fyre Festival 2 was supposed to take place in Mexico from May 30 to June 2.

A flight carrying 178 passengers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s principal secretary PK Mishra, was diverted to Bhubaneswar airport on Friday after the aircraft was unable to land at Jharsuguda due to cracks on the runway, officials said.

In yet another incident of violence against minorities in Bangladesh, a Hindu leader in Dinajpur’s Biral upazila was kidnapped and brutally assaulted to death, as confirmed by the local police and family members.

Watch live as U.S. President Donald Trump officiates the Swearing-In Ceremony for the new Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inside the Oval Office.

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A 17-year-old boy, who was presumed dead and cremated more than a month ago, has returned alive in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, officials said on Friday.

The Kochi city police on Friday served a notice to actor Shine Tom Chacko, directing him to appear for questioning in connection with an incident where he allegedly fled from a hotel during an anti-drug raid.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asked all underground Maoists to surrender as soon as possible and join the mainstream, saying the government is determined to free the country from the scourge of Maoism before March 31, 2026.

Rubio previously reported that his office had revoked over 300 visas since the beginning of the year, including those of student visa holders who have expressed criticism towards Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Renaud Camus was set to give a speech at a hard-right political party event in Britain next week, but officials turned down his request for a travel permit, his English-language publisher Vauban Books said.

A young woman made a false claim of sexual assault after falling off a running MMTS train in Hyderabad while making an Instagram reel, railway police said.

A US judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted there.

The Finance Ministry on Friday made it clear that the government is not considering any proposal to levy Goods and Services Tax (GST) on UPI transactions over Rs 2,000.

A mob beat to death a member of the persecuted Ahmadiyya minority on Friday after hundreds of radical Islamists surrounded their place of worship in the port city of Karachi, police said.

The Supreme Court has criticised an order of a Dubai court restricting the travel of a minor child in a matrimonial dispute and called it “atrocious” and “violative of human rights”.

Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, whose arrest sparked protests in universities across the US described his detention as an “administrative error” and alleged that the evidence against him was based on “sensationalized tabloids.”
“Last Friday, I sat in a courtroom as an immigration judge determined that the government could deport me despite my status as a legal permanent resident and despite that the government’s claims against me were baseless — much of its “evidence” lifted directly from sensationalized tabloids,” Khalil wrote.
Despite being a legal permanent resident married to a US citizen, Khalil said he had been targeted for his political beliefs, particularly his criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza.
In the piece, Khalil described the conditions inside the detention centre, where dozens of men sleep on hard mats under a leaking metal roof. “Which ones are dreaming about reuniting with their families? Which ones are having nightmares about becoming the Trump administration’s next ‘administrative error’?”
The Columbia University graduate student and prominent face of the campus protest movement said he was shocked at how quickly his case was processed.
“I think about the breakneck speed with which my case was heard and decided, running roughshod over due process,” he wrote. He compared his experience to that of Mitsuye Endo, a Japanese American who challenged her wartime incarceration in a case that reached the US Supreme Court.
“Rights are granted to those who align with power. For the poor, for people of color, for those who resist injustice, rights are but words written on water,” Khalil added.
“The right to free speech when it comes to Palestine has always been exceptionally weak. Even so, the crackdown on universities and students reveals just how afraid the White House is of the idea of Palestine’s freedom entering the mainstream. Why else would Trump officials not only attempt to deport me but also intentionally mislead the public about who I am and what I stand for?” he rewrote.
Last Friday, Judge Jamee E. Comans ruled that the government had met the legal threshold to deport Khalil on grounds of foreign policy. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio cited a rarely used statute, arguing that Khalil’s activism posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences” for the United States. In a letter to the court, Rubio accused him of participating in “anti-Semitic protests and disruptive activities,” though no crimes have been alleged.
Khalil’s lawyers called the ruling “a weaponisation of immigration law to suppress dissent” and said they would appeal. They have until 23 April to seek a waiver.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has denied accusations that it is targeting pro-Palestinian voices, though Khalil’s case is part of a broader pattern. Immigration officials have arrested other students and academics critical of Israel, including a Georgetown scholar and a Brown University professor. Some had their visas cancelled, others faced deportation proceedings.
Despite the pressure, Khalil said his beliefs remain unchanged. “Like the thousands of students that I advocated with at Columbia — including Muslim, Jewish and Christian friends — I believe in the innate equality of all human beings,” he wrote. “I believe in human dignity. I believe in the right of my people to look at the blue sky and not fear an impending missile.”

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After Secretary of State Marco Rubio Friday hinted that US can’t go one mediating between Russia and Ukraine and would “move on” within days unless there is a clear sign of an agreement, critics of President Donald Trump asked what happened to his promised that he could end the war within 24 hours.
“We’re not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end,” Rubio said after landmark meetings in Paris with European and Ukrainian leaders amid the Trump admin’s ongoing efforts to spearhead a ceasefire deal.
“So we need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable in the next few weeks.”
“If it’s not possible, if we’re so far apart that this is not going to happen, then I think [President Trump] is probably at a point where he’s going to say, ‘well, we’re done’,” he added.
Rubio repeated what Trump has been saying that it is not his war — it is former president Joe Biden’s war, “It’s not our war. We have other priorities to focus on,” Rubio said. “The president feels very strongly about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … this is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserves just as much, if not more attention.”

Where does the Russia-Ukraine deal stand now?

The Paris meeting was the first substantive, high-level meeting which Rubio said went well. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office called the talks constructive and positive. When asked about Rubio’s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday that “fairly complex” negotiations are ongoing between Russia and the US. “Russia is striving toward resolving this conflict, securing its own interests, and is open to dialogue. We are continuing to do this,” he said.

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US President Donald Trump and his administration are studying whether dismissing independent Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell is an option, his top White House economic aide said Friday.

Rain, accompanied by gusty winds, lashed parts of Delhi on Friday evening, bringing relief from the heat.

Former West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh tied the knot with party colleague Rinku Majumdar in an intimate ceremony on Friday.