WASHINGTON: The leadership of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) blamed the Trump administration’s rhetoric and appointments for fuelling anti-South Asian hate, after a foiled white-supremacist plot to carry out a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois.

WASHINGTON: Manjit Singh Bedi, an Indian-origin grocery store owner on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Fraudsters’ list, has been returned to the US from India to face charges of defrauding a US food aid programme of at least $600,000, American officials said.

UNITED NATIONS: India has reiterated its call for an immediate end to the conflict that encompasses the entire Gulf region and has taken a toll on its economy that has strong links to the region and on its people there.

WASHINGTON: India has emerged alongside the United States and Britain as one of the leading sources of private capital mobilised by the World Bank Group, its President Ajay Banga has said, as the institution announced plans to expand its critical minerals business fivefold over the next five years.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump claimed that drug cartels effectively controlled Mexico and said his administration was intensifying operations against trafficking networks, even as he acknowledged that the Mexican government was unhappy with his assessment.

WASHINGTON: US Vice President JD Vance and senior Republican leaders launched a fierce attack on Muslim Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a campaign rally in Michigan, accusing him of sympathising with extremist organisations, questioning his patriotism and portraying his candidacy as a threat to American values.

WASHINGTON: The US sanctioned an Iraqi bank, Iranian offshore banks, a Dubai-based Iranian oil intermediary and a Hong Kong front company, and blacklisted a Cuban state-owned bank, as the Trump administration tightened what it calls Operation Economic Outcast against Tehran.

SEOUL: South Korean Defence Minister Kang Shin-chul said Thursday that Seoul has conveyed concerns to the United States over remarks by the chief of the US Forces Korea (USFK) that conditions for the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON) have changed.

DHAKA: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the authorities of failing to ensure the safety of religious and ethnic minorities, highlighting killings, persecution, attacks on temples and homes, vandalism of idols, land grabs and violence against women across the country since August 2024.

BERLIN: As many as three Indian nationals have been killed in a fire incident in Bochum in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, the Indian Embassy in Germany said on Thursday.