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US Senator slams Trump’s 12B farm aid, cites India tariff fallout

IANS | December 10, 2025 7:03 AM

Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) A top American Senator Sen. Maria Cantwell blasted President Donald Trump’s new $12 billion plan to aid farmers hurt by his trade battles, calling the effort a “meager bailout” that fails to fix the damage caused by tariffs that have reshaped global markets and hit major exporters — including products once shipped in large volumes to India.

China trade tensions dominate Senate grilling of US trade chief

IANS | December 10, 2025 6:46 AM

Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) China loomed over a contentious Senate hearing as US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer defended the administration’s high-tariff strategy, its ongoing negotiations with Beijing, and controversial decisions affecting critical technologies and rare-earth supply chains.

US lawmakers press Trade Representative Greer on tariffs, inflation, and trade talks

IANS | December 10, 2025 6:41 AM

Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) Influential American Senators confronted US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer over tariffs, rising consumer prices, small-business strain, and the administration’s sweeping reciprocal-trade negotiations, in a hearing that revealed growing bipartisan unease with the economic fallout of rapid policy shifts.

US trade chief calls India talks as 'best offers ever received'

IANS | December 10, 2025 6:33 AM

Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) The United States is pushing ahead with intensive trade negotiations with India, with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer telling lawmakers that New Delhi has made “the best we’ve ever received as a country” in ongoing discussions aimed at expanding market access for American farm products, including grain sorghum and soy.

India, Kenya discuss strengthening cooperation in healthcare sector

IANS | December 9, 2025 9:50 PM

Nairobi, Dec 9 (IANS) Indian High Commissioner to Kenya Adarsh Swaika called on Kenya's Cabinet Secretary of Health, Aden Duale, on Tuesday, and discussed further strengthening between the two nations in healthcare, including pharmaceuticals, pharma manufacturing, equipment, medical devices, and capacity building.

India scales up cyclone relief efforts in Sri Lanka under Operation Sagar Bandhu

IANS | December 9, 2025 8:56 PM

New Delhi/Colombo, Dec 9 (IANS) As part of its humanitarian support to Sri Lanka under Operation Sagar Bandhu following Cyclone Ditwah, India has been delivering life-saving assistance, essential relief supplies, and critical early-recovery capabilities across the island nation, including in areas that were badly impacted and had been rendered inaccessible, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday.

Investing in planetary health would deliver higher GDP, less poverty: UN

IANS | December 9, 2025 7:30 PM

Nairobi, Dec 9 (IANS) The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.

Bangladesh: Dengue claims three more lives; death toll crosses 400

IANS | December 9, 2025 7:21 PM

Dhaka, Dec 9 (IANS) The dengue outbreak in Bangladesh is worsening rapidly, with infections and deaths rising sharply across the country. As many as three people died of dengue in Bangladesh in 24 hours till Tuesday, raising the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 401 in 2025, local media reported.

MoS Singh arrives in Kenya for seventh session of UN Environment Assembly

IANS | December 9, 2025 7:14 PM

Nairobi, Dec 9 (IANS) Union Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh arrived in Kenya on Tuesday to attend the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), saying that India remains committed to enhancing efforts for environmental conservation and advancing policies of the UN Environment Programme for a sustainable ecosystem.

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