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INSWAREB proposes partnership with U.S. universities on irradiated construction materials

INSWAREB proposes partnership with U.S. universities on irradiated construction materials

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INSWAREB founders N. Bhanumathidas (left) and N. Kalidas (right) with U.S. Consul General Laura Williams during a meeting in Visakhapatnam on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Visakhapatnam-based Institute for Solid Waste Research and Ecological Balance (INSWAREB) is seeking to bridge the gap between industrial waste utilisation and nuclear infrastructure requirements through a proposed partnership with United States universities. Founders N. Bhanumathidas and N. Kalidas, veterans in blended cement research, have developed concepts using irradiation to create ‘Irradiated Cementitious Construction Materials’ (ICCMs). By transforming industrial byproducts such as fly ash and rice husk ash into amorphised silica, they aim to produce high-strength concrete that could enhance grade strengths to 65-85 MPa, while offering a sustainable alternative to costly silica fume. INSWAREB is also advocating the application of its patented ‘Nano Concrete’ (NAC), developed in 2010, for the construction of nuclear shield walls. The institute says NAC’s densified microstructure, which eliminates traditional aggregates and the associated cracks at the interstitial transition zone, could offer superior radiation attenuation. These proposals recently gained traction after a meeting …

U.S. says it helped in rescuing Indian MSV crew

U.S. says it helped in rescuing Indian MSV crew

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Twitter logo of U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Centcom has posted on its X page a news report that a U.S. Navy search and rescue helicopter assisted in the rescue of 14 Indian mariners in the Northern Arabian Sea, June 14. A U.S. Navy P-8 aircraft was first on scene, responded by dropping a search and rescue kit that included a life raft, which the 14 mariners boarded. MV Jabal Ali 9 subsequently arrived on scene and successfully recovered eleven crew members from the raft. According to news report, an MH-60 Sea Hawk, assigned to Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), rescued three additional mariners after their life raft capsized in the rough seas. The three mariners were transported to M/V Jabal Ali 9, where they were in good health and spirits. A mechanised sailing vessel had experienced an engine failure off the coast of Muscat, and the crew eventually transferred safely to a liferaft, as per an Indian embassy post on X. Published – June 15, 2026 09:00 am IST Disclaimer: We …

Will not allow illegal oil shipments from Iran, U.S. tells India

Will not allow illegal oil shipments from Iran, U.S. tells India

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. File | Photo Credit: AP On Friday (June 12, 2026), after India summoned U.S. Embassy representative Jason Meeks and lodged its “strong protest” against the missile attacks on ships carrying Indian crew, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar that violations of the American blockade and “illicit transport of Iranian oil” would not be tolerated. Recalling his discussion with Mr. Rubio, Mr. Jaishankar posted on X: “I reiterated India’s strong protest at the attacks by the U.S. Navy in the Gulf that killed three Indian mariners. Such lethal actions against commercial shipping are not justified.” West Asia war LIVE updates – June 13, 2026 The two discussed the Strait of Hormuz situation following U.S. missile strikes on three vessels — Marivex near Duqm, and Settebello and Jalveer near Shinas — that killed three Indian seafarers off the Oman coast. The U.S. State Department said Mr. Rubio further told Mr. Jaishankar that “all commercial vessels should immediately comply with orders from U.S. forces as they …

U.S. attacks third ship with Indian seafarers; crew safe

U.S. attacks third ship with Indian seafarers; crew safe

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Jalveer is a Guinea-Bissau-flagged asphalt tanker. Photo Credit: X/@FSUIINDIA U.S. forces attacked a merchant ship carrying Indian seafarers for the third time in four days. Thursday’s (June 11, 2026) attack was on Guinea-Bissau flagged bitumen carrier Jalveer off the port of Shinas, Oman. West Asia war LIVE updates The vessel had 20 Indian seafarers, and they were safe, said Mukesh Mangal, Additional Secretary of the Ports, Shipping and Waterways Ministry. “As per the latest information, evacuation [of crew] to Shinas port has commenced,” Mr. Mangal said at an inter-ministerial briefing on Thursday (June 11, 2026). https://t.co/6VEqoDxDSb — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 11, 2026 On Wednesday (June 10, 2026), the External Affairs Ministry had summoned the U.S. Chargé d’affaires Jason Meeks and lodged a “strong protest” regarding the attacks. On Thursday (June 11, 2026), the Ministry, while emphasising that the “attacks came from the U.S. Navy stationed there”, described the strikes as “deeply worrisome” but blamed them on the ongoing conflict between U.S.-Israel and Iran in the region. U.S. Centcom has said in a statement that two Hellfire missiles were fired into Jalveer’s engine room after the “crew repeatedly failed to comply with directions from U.S. …

24 Indian sailors rescued from ship hit by U.S. missile

24 Indian sailors rescued from ship hit by U.S. missile

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A screenshot from the video shared by FSUI shows smoke billowing from Marivex after it was struck by a U.S. precision munition. | Photo Credit: FSUI Twenty four Indian seafarers were rescued from tanker Marivex, a ship sanctioned by the U.S. for Iran links, off the south-eastern coast of Oman on Monday (June 8, 2026), after a U.S. missile strike. The sailors sent distress messages to a Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) office-bearer that the U.S. Navy had attacked the ship’s engine room. Audio messages purported to be from the seafarers to Manoj Yadav, general secretary of FSUI, received at 2 p.m. IST say: “This is Motor Tanker Marivex. Fire on board. Vessel is sinking. U.S. Navy attacked with missile our engine room. We have a hole at the bottom.” U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement that “U.S. forces disabled (attacked) an unladen oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, June 8, after the vessel violated the ongoing blockade against Iran by attempting to sail to an Iranian port. An F/A-18 Super …

Indian Envoy Vinay Mohan Kwatra meets senior U.S. counter-terror official

Indian Envoy Vinay Mohan Kwatra meets senior U.S. counter-terror official

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U.S. counter-terrorism official Sebastian Gorka with India’s Ambassador to the U.S. Vinay Mohan Kwatra. File Photo: X/@AmbVMKwatra India’s Ambassador to the U.S. Vinay Mohan Kwatra discussed threats posed by terrorism across the world during a meeting with senior U.S. counter-terrorism official Sebastian Gorka. “Had an engaging conversation with @SebGorka Deputy Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Counterterrorism, National Security Council,” Mr. Kwatra said in a post on X on Sunday (June 7, 2026). “We shared perspectives on the threats of terrorism, and our counter-terrorism cooperation outlined in India-USA Joint Statement of February 2025,” Mr. Kwatra said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump, in February last year, reaffirmed that the global scourge of terrorism must be fought, and terrorist safe havens eliminated from every corner of the world. “They committed to strengthen cooperation against terrorist threats from groups, including Al-Qaida, ISIS, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba in order to prevent heinous acts like the attacks in Mumbai on 26/11 and the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021,” said a joint …

PM Modi good friend, India and U.S. will get to trade deal: Trump

PM Modi good friend, India and U.S. will get to trade deal: Trump

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a good friend and expressed confidence that the United States and India would reach a trade agreement. “We will get to a deal because I like your prime minister a lot. He is a good friend of mine. We get along great, and we are gonna make a deal,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Thursday (June 4, 2026). Also Read | U.S. War Secretary Hegseth backs Trump’s India-Pak ceasefire claim; outlines Indo-Pacific strategy Responding to a question on the trade deal being negotiated between the two countries, Mr. Trump said India had taken advantage of US policies for years and charged “tremendous tariffs”. “They charged tremendous amounts of tariffs to our companies, and we didn’t charge them anything,” Mr. Trump said. A U.S. delegation was in India earlier this week and concluded four days of negotiations on an interim bilateral agreement on Thursday (June 4). India’s …

U.S. War Secretary Hegseth backs Trump’s India-Pak ceasefire claim; outlines Indo-Pacific strategy

U.S. War Secretary Hegseth backs Trump’s India-Pak ceasefire claim; outlines Indo-Pacific strategy

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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Saturday (May 30, 2026) credited President Donald Trump with helping broker peace between India and Pakistan, while describing New Delhi as a key partner in Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Mr. Hegseth referred to the understanding reached between India and Pakistan after their military confrontation last year and praised Mr. Trump’s role in easing tensions. “You saw that in the ability of the president to come together on brokering a peace between India and Pakistan, two nuclear capable countries,” Mr. Hegseth said. Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he helped secure peace between India and Pakistan following a four-day military conflict last year triggered by the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 people. India, however, has consistently maintained that the understanding was reached directly between the two countries and has rejected claims of third-party mediation. The U.S. secretary on Saturday (May 30, 2026) said both India and Pakistan would continue to view each other through the prism of security …

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets PM Modi

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets PM Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a meeting in New Delhi on May 23, 2026. Photo: X/@narendramodi via PTI. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday (May 23, 2026) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Earlier in the day, Mr. Rubio began his maiden four-day visit to India by visiting Mother House, the headquarters of Saint Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, in Kolkata. Mr. Rubio, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor, discussed U.S.-India ties on security, trade and critical technologies with Mr. Modi. Also Read : Marco Rubio in India LIVE updates On his X page, Mr. Gor said, “Great to join Secretary of State Rubio for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” Mr. Gor, in his X page, further stated that “We had a productive discussion on ways to deepen U.S.-India cooperation across security, trade and critical technologies — areas that strengthen both our nations and advance a free and open Indo-Pacific.” Mr. Gor said, “India is a vital partner to the United …

Trump Says Poland Will Get an Extra 5,000 U.S. Troops

Trump Says Poland Will Get an Extra 5,000 U.S. Troops

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President Trump said Thursday that he plans to send 5,000 troops to Poland, a move that is intended to reassure an ally but which won’t forestall the White House’s effort to shrink the American military presence in Europe. U.S. Army soldiers during a recent exercise in Poland. “Based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki,” Trump wrote in a social-media post, “I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland.” Trump’s decision followed a surprise move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this month to cancel the nine-month rotation of an armored brigade to Poland from Fort Hood, Texas. The decision by Hegseth drew sharp criticism from Republican and Democratic lawmakers and concerned Polish officials, who told The Wall Street Journal they were not consulted about the move. Hegseth’s move also surprised some officials because it was Germany—not Poland—that criticized the U.S. strategy in the war with Iran, drawing Trump’s ire. In early May, Trump responded to criticism from German Chancellor Friedrich …