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LONDON: Several universities in the United Kingdom have suspended or restricted admissions for students from Pakistan and Bangladesh following tougher immigration rules introduced by the Home Office and rising concerns over alleged visa abuse, the international media has reported. At least nine higher education institutions have placed the two countries in a “high-risk” category for

WASHINGTON, DC (Kashmir English): In a stark warning, Trump said any country trafficking drugs into the United States could be attacked; this is a signal that the United States is prepared to use force against countries complicit in the trade. He repeated that any country trafficking drugs into the US could be attacked, giving an

PALEMBAYAN (Reuters): Rescue teams in western Indonesia were battling on Monday to clear roads cut off by cyclone-induced landslides and floods, as improved weather revealed more of the scale of a disaster that has killed close to 700 people in Southeast Asia. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand have seen large-scale devastation after a rare tropical storm

LONDON: Oxford University Press has named “rage bait’’ as its word of the year, capturing the internet zeitgeist of 2025. The phrase refers to online content that is “deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive,” to drive traffic to a particular social media account, Oxford said in a statement.

  LONDON (Kashmir English): Pakistani students secured a resounding victory at the prestigious Oxford Union, decisively defeating an Indian panel on India’s Pakistan policy with a two-thirds majority vote. The debate focused on the resolution that India’s policy toward Pakistan inflames public sentiment under the guise of security. Despite being numerically outnumbered, the Pakistani delegation

WASHINGTON, DC (Kashmir English): The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC, the head of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has said. Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said in a statement that his agency had “halted all asylum