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Washington: US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce shunned a Pakistani journalist’s questioning over India-Pakistan border tensions following the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, which claimed the lives of 26 people while several others were injured. When asked about the border tensions between India and Pakistan …

The Trump administration has taken a significant step in implementing a new executive order aimed at supporting Christian employees in the federal government, per a report by Politico. As part of this effort, the State Department has instructed its employees to report instances of “anti-Christian bias” within the department. This …

The total downsizing will shrink the department from 82,000 to 62,000 employees. The US health department will reduce its workforce by around 10,000 full-time employees as part of a broader cost-cutting overhaul of the federal government, according to an official statement released Thursday.  Including early retirements and so-called “deferred resignations,” …

New Delhi: The United States has released an official statement in which it has praised Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard for her “nuanced understanding” of the Indo-Pacific region. The statement comes days after her visit to India, during which she held a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During her visit …

It was 1979 when former US President Jimmy Carter’s administration managed a narrow 210-to-206 House victory to create a cabinet-level Department of Education. Forty-six years later another US President, Donald Trump, is close to fulfilling a long-standing conservative ambition: the complete dismantling of the department.  On Thursday, President Trump signed …

Washington: US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at “eliminating” the Department of Education, a decades-old goal of the American right, which wants individual states to run schools free from the federal government. Surrounded by schoolchildren sitting at desks set up in the East Room of the White …