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US VP Vance links Christian identity to American jobs, H1B visas

New York/Washington, Dec 23 (PTI) Vice President JD Vance has asserted that a “true” Christian identity of the USA is not just about protecting the unborn and linked it to American jobs and H1B visas, saying it is wrong for companies to seek “cheaper” options in the third world. The remarks by Vance are the latest amid an intensifying crackdown by the Trump administration on immigration, both legal and illegal, as well as the H1B visas, used by corporations in the US to hire foreign talent. “A true Christian politics, it cannot just be about the protection of the unborn

RBI unveils measures to infuse $32 billion of liquidity into banking system

MUMBAI, Dec 23 (Reuters) – The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) will infuse about $32 billion worth of rupee liquidity into the banking system over the next month via open market bond purchases and a buy/sell dollar-rupee swap, it said on Tuesday. The RBI will purchase government bonds worth 2 trillion rupees ($22.34 billion) between December 29 and January 22 while also conducting a $10 billion 3-year dollar-rupee buy/sell swap on January 13. The measures are expected to both infuse rupee liquidity into the banking system while also pulling out excess dollar liquidity that had contributed to a surge in

Protest erupts in India’s capital city over lynching of Hindu man in Bangladesh

NEW DELHI, December 23, 2025 (AP) — A protest erupted in India’s capital Tuesday in response to the death of a Hindu man who was lynched and burned by an angry mob in neighboring Bangladesh, a new sign of strain in relations between the neighboring countries. The protest in New Delhi, mainly led by Hindu nationalist organization Vishva Hindu Parishad, highlights the fragility in the relationship between India and Bangladesh, which often is held up as a rare example of stability in South Asia. Bangladeshi student leader Sharif Osman Hadi died in a hospital in Singapore on Thursday after being

US Justice Department releases new tranche of Epstein files

WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department released a new trove of documents on Tuesday from its investigation into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including an email from a prosecutor indicating President Trump had traveled aboard his private jet “many more times than previously has been reported”. The latest release includes around 30,000 pages of documents, with many redactions, and dozens of video clips, including several purporting to be shot inside a federal detention center. Epstein was found dead in 2019 in a New York jail. His death was ruled a suicide. PRIVATE JET

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