Beyond Today, Into Tomorrow
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said India will buy Venezuelan oil, as opposed to purchasing oil from Iran. “We’ve already made that deal, the concept of the deal,” Trump told reporters while on Air Force One, en route to Florida from Washington, D.C. Trump’s comment came a day after the United States told Delhi…
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that poisonous propaganda, hate speech and inflammatory remarks targeting Muslims have become a routine practice of leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). According to Beyond the Time News, the Board’s spokesperson, Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, in a strongly-worded statement, condemned the…
MADRID: Spanish police have detained a 38-year-old Chinese national who owned a hair salon near Barcelona on suspicion of financing the Palestinian group Hamas through about 600,000 euros ($714,960) in cryptocurrency transfers, regional police said on Friday. Investigators traced at least 31 crypto transactions from virtual wallets controlled by the suspect to addresses that are…
Wellington: New Zealand rejected an invitation to take part in US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” on Friday, joining a small list of nations to knock back the proposal. “New Zealand will not be joining the Board in its current form but will continue to monitor developments,” Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in a…
Raipur: Indian forces killed two people in violence-hit Chhattisgarh state. According to Beyond The Time News, the killings took place during a cordon and search operation in the Bijapur district of the state. Indian police officials, justifying the killings, have termed the deceased as Maoists. “We found the bodies of two Maoists during a search…
WASHINGTON: Sleeping or bored? For U.S. President Donald Trump, it’s in the eye of the beholder. Trump on Thursday said he was not asleep, just bored, during his cabinet meeting in December, when he shut his eyes for several extended periods. “Some people said he closed his eyes. Look, it got pretty boring,” Trump told…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Wednesday established a Joint Working Group on IT and Digital Economy to collaborate in emerging technologies and digital transformation. During the 13th Session of the Joint Economic Commission (JEC) held in Colombo, both countries reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral economic relations further and expanding cooperation across multiple sectors….
BEIJING: China on Thursday executed 11 people linked to Myanmar criminal gangs, including “key members” involved in telecom scam operations, state media reported. Fraud compounds have flourished in Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry. The centres are typically staffed by foreigners — including many Chinese — with many saying they were trafficked…
A plane crash in northeast Colombia on Wednesday killed all 15 people on board, including a local lawmaker, state-run airline Satena said. The Beechcraft 1900 twin-engined turboprop plane took off before noon from Cucuta, on the border with Venezuela, for a short flight to the town of Ocana, Satena said. Air traffic control lost contact…
London: A newly announced EU–India Security and Defence Partnership has come under intense scrutiny from human rights advocates, who warn that the European Union is legitimizing India’s accelerating authoritarianism while ignoring widespread abuses against minorities, civil society, and the press. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently described India as “the world’s largest democracy”…
