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Hit by the massive US import tariff, export-led China seems to have gone crazy as its No.1 export destination, the United States of America, has suddenly gone out of reach after US President Donald Trump’s prohibitive import tariff on China. Shockingly, China has issued a warning against countries seeking to strike a broader economic deal with the United States at its expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiralling trade war between the world's two largest economies.

Washington and Riyadh are reportedly close to a new $100 billion arms package as Trump's Gulf trip nears. The US is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion, sources told Reuters, saying the proposal was being lined up for announcement during President Donald Trump's visit to the kingdom in May.

The world’s two leading cement producing countries China and India had a few common negative experiences last year resulting principally from falling demand from the infrastructure sector. At all times, at what rate, highways to sea ports to airports will be built will remain a government decision in the two countries to fund new projects. Beijing policy of the past has resulted in the country, the world’s second largest economy after the US already having a fairly robust infrastructure. As a result, the materials that go into building infrastructure from cement to steel to aluminium have all started feeling the impact of demand saturation. To add to the distress of cement makers, China’s property market remains mired in a crisis, resulting from overspeculation by the likes of Evergrande, Country Garden and Sunac defaulting in repayment of borrowings.

"Always prepared, ever vigilant", 'ADGPI - Indian Army' posted this assertion on 'X'. Pakistan and India have declared 'War' and United States President Donald Trump says it’s up to India and Pakistan to deal with it, "they're close and Kashmir has been between them for 1500 years!"

Close to 60 per cent people have reported that they were “struggling” with a further 12 per cent described themselves “suffering”. For billions across the globe, the struggle is either for finding work, or if they have jobs, they are struggling under fear of losing them. They are now losing their hope in their future.

President Donald Trump’s erratic dance with tariffs continues to confound not just global markets but even his own team. On April 22, in a move that underscored the White House’s habitual policy incoherence, Trump declared that the “very high” tariffs on Chinese goods would soon be “substantially reduced.” This comes after days of raising them dramatically at the start of the month, then selectively exempting key electronics sectors - moves that reflect both strategic confusion and political expediency.

LONDON: With the conclusion of the second round of talks between the representatives of the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran and an agreement to continue the talks, it can be stated that this course has thus far been able to prevent the current tensions [between Iran and the West] from spilling over into a US military attack [on Iran] and the start of a war, as well as stay the hand of the warmongering Israeli government away from attacking Iran.

NEW YORK: Since its founding in 1961, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has never formed a federal government. But through a mix of policy advocacy, union alliances, and grassroots organizing, it has helped shape Canada’s political landscape — pushing issues like worker’s rights, strong public services, and robust social welfare into the national mainstream. In recent years, the party has also placed greater emphasis on the concerns of First Nations communities and other historically marginalized groups.

It is perhaps the worst of time. In an act of terror at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, 26 people were killed, the worst in the last 25 years since 2000. The world called it ‘An Act of Terror’. Prima facie evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in this terror attack prompted India to immediately take five stringent actions against Pakistan. One of them was suspension of Indus Waters Treaty of 1960. Pakistan called the suspension ‘An Act of War’ and then suspended Simla Agreement of 1972, which amounts to ‘A Suspension of Peace’. UN calls for ‘maximum restraint’. The tale is in progress and nobody exactly knows which way it would turn.

International students on US campuses are at present a terrified lot: they can be abducted, sent to some detention centre hundreds of miles from where they live, kept there for any length of time, and then deported abroad. And all this can happen to them not because they have violated any known law, but entirely at the whim of the administration. Exact estimates are difficult to come by, but about 1500 students are reported to have had their student visas revoked and are facing deportation.