Rush Hour: Trump says Biden govt. tried to influence India polls, TN demands education funds & more

United States President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he “guessed” that the previous administration was “trying to get somebody else elected” in India by having allegedly provided $21 million to a programme “for voter turnout”.

Trump’s comment on Thursday came a day after he defended his administration’s decision to cancel the funds allegedly being provided by USAID for the project in India. On Sunday, the US Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, revoked several USAID grants, including the alleged $21 million for India. This was part of $486 million in grants to the nonprofit Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening, which supports elections and political transitions globally.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya claimed that the funding was “external interference” and linked it to Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist George Soros. India’s ruling party has repeatedly accused Soros of conspiring with the Opposition Congress to destabilise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Read on.

The Panamanian government has informed India about the safe arrival of a group of Indians deported from the US, the Indian Embassy said on Thursday. The deportees are being kept in a hotel with consular access and essential facilities.

The group is part of 299 undocumented Indian migrants sent to Panama under an…

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