Ashley Tellis, a United States government adviser and expert on India-US relations, has been arrested and charged with unlawfully retaining national defence information and allegedly meeting with Chinese officials, US prosecutors said on Tuesday. Tellis made his initial court appearance on Tuesday. A detention hearing is scheduled for October 21, US media reported. “We are…
China has accused the United States of “double standards” after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose an additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods in response to Beijing’s curbs on exports of rare earth minerals. China says its export control measures announced last week were in response to the US restrictions on its entities…
China tightened export controls for critical rare-earth metals on Thursday. The new restrictions were announced by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and come ahead of an expected meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Donald Trump’s later this month. The world’s two largest economies have been locked in trade negotiations aimed at…
Five members of Norway’s Nobel Committee could hold the key to United States President Donald Trump’s much-desired moment of glory – being named this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Each year, the Nobel Committee, whose members are elected by Norway’s parliament, award the prize, established under the will of Alfred Nobel, to “the…
United States President Donald Trump has announced that Israel and Hamas have agreed on the first phase of a peace framework that aims at a Gaza ceasefire and the release of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners. The announcement follows from Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war on Gaza, which he announced last week, and…
The price of gold has soared to a historic high, crossing $4,000 per troy ounce (31.1g) as global investors have flocked to the asset over the past year. Gold futures, which are contracts to buy or sell gold at a certain price, passed the threshold on Tuesday, followed by the spot price of gold on…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked United States President Donald Trump to lift the 40 percent additional trade tariff imposed by the US government on Brazilian imports, in a phone call on Monday. The leaders spoke for 30 minutes. During the call, they exchanged phone numbers in order to maintain a direct line…
Premium Updated Oct 3, 2025, 08:53 PM IST The news, reportedly circulating on social media, suggested that SMEE’s EUV machine was on display at a major trade show in Shanghai. Shares of Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Development, a stakeholder in SMEE, surged by the daily 10 per cent limit for two consecutive days. How rumors…
US President Donald Trump announced earlier this week that his administration would launch a new website, called TrumpRx, which will allow American consumers to buy prescription drugs from pharmaceutical companies at discounted prices. Pfizer, the first United States pharmaceutical group to sign up to the website, said it would offer discounts of up to 85…
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its…