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Mausam Jha

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A journalist covering International Relations, and Business.

ARTICLES BY MAUSAM JHA

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. head office of TikTok is shown in Culver City, California, U.S., September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake//File Photo (REUTERS)

TikTok vanishes: When will the app list again in Apple, Google stores in US

5 min read . 12:29 PM IST

FILE PHOTO: Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar is seen after a party meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/File Photo (REUTERS)

PIA under fire: How a ‘stupid’ Paris ad sparked a major controversy and backlash

2 min read . 21 Jan 2025

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden departs from the South Lawn of the White House alongside his son Hunter Biden en route to Camp David, Washington, U.S., July 26, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard  /File Photo (REUTERS)

Why did Joe Biden break his promise by pardoning Hunter?

4 min read . 02 Dec 2024

US Election 2024: Former US President Donald Trump arrives for his closing campaign event at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are separated by the narrowest of margins in polls, which show Tuesday's election is a coin flip, and by a chasm in their future vision for the world's premier economic and military power. Photographer: Sarah Rice/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

US Presidential Elections 2024: From abortion to unemployment, A-Z glossary

19 min read . 05 Nov 2024

US Election 2024: A mural at Grant Park Recreation Center in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. A flurry of polls released Sunday show Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump remain poised for a photo finish in this week's presidential election, with voters narrowly split both nationally and across the pivotal swing states that will decide the election. Photographer: Jon Cherry/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

US Election 2024: Is Kamala Harris facing dilemma with pro-Palestine voters?

5 min read . 04 Nov 2024

In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, A Bulava ballistic missile is test-fired from the Okhotsk Sea during drills of Russia's nuclear forces. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) (AP)

Russia conducts nuclear drills, Putin says use of nukes will be ‘exceptional’

3 min read . 30 Oct 2024

A man walks past a mural painting of Iranian flags in a street in Tehran on October 26, 2024. Residents of Tehran awoke and went about their business as planned on October 26 after their sleep was troubled by Israeli strikes that triggered blasts that echoed across the city. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (AFP)

Iran downplays Israeli strikes, warns of retaliation as US hopes ‘this is end’

6 min read . 27 Oct 2024

Rona Kaufman, a self-described progressive who is conflicted over who she will vote for in the presidential election, poses for a portrait in Squirrel Hill, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke) (AP)

US: What do Jewish voters in swing states think of Nov 5 presidential polls?

6 min read . 22 Oct 2024

A paramilitary soldier gestures toward media as security officials examine the site of an explosion that caused injures and destroyed vehicles at outside the Karachi airport, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan) (AP)

Pakistan blast: How bombing was carried outside Jinnah airport in Karachi

4 min read . 07 Oct 2024

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu during his ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) (PTI)

Maldives' Prez in India to mend ties amid thinning tourist influx: Agenda

3 min read . 07 Oct 2024

Bullet holes and shrapnel pockmark the wall of a roadside bomb shelter near Sderot, where the police station was stormed during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) (AP)

Hamas attack on Israel: Infiltration, assaults, kidnappings and war | Timeline

4 min read . 07 Oct 2024

Election posters showing portraits of National People's Power's presidential candidate Anura Dissanayake, are pasted on the kitchen walls of an eatery where a cook prepares food for customers in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) (AP)

Sri Lanka presidential polls: Wickremesinghe faces challenge from Marxist leader

3 min read . 21 Sep 2024

Hashim Safieddine, a Shiite Muslim cleric and the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, speaks during the funeral of persons killed after hundreds of paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 18, 2024. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on September 17, killing at least nine people and wounding around 2,800 in blasts the Iran-backed militant group blamed on Israel. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) (AFP)

Is war with Hezbollah imminent as Israel's patience runs thin? Explained

5 min read . 19 Sep 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

PM Modi embarks on visit to Brunei, Singapore as part of ‘Act East Policy’

5 min read . 03 Sep 2024

FILE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 Summit, in Apulia, Italy, June 14, 2024. (PTI Photo) (File) (PTI)

PM Modi's Ukraine visit signals shift to ‘multi-alignment’ in multipolar world

3 min read . 22 Aug 2024

(FILES) Yahya Sinwar, the new leader of the Hamas Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip, sit next to the son of Mazen Faqha, a Hamas leader who was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the Gaza Strip, during a memorial on March 27, 2017, in Gaza City. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said July 31, 2024 that the chief of the Palestinian Hamas militant group, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran along with one of his bodyguards. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (AFP)

Hamas appoints Yahya Sinwar as new chief. All you need to know

5 min read . 07 Aug 2024

(FILES) Bangladesh's main opposition leader and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia attends a rally in Dhaka on January 20, 2014. Bangladesh's president on August 5, 2024 after meeting the army chief Waker, ordered the release of prisoners from the protests, as well as former prime minister and key opposition leader Khaleda Zia, 78. Zia, who is in poor health, was jailed by her arch-rival Hasina for graft in 2018. (Photo by Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP) (AFP)

Khaleda Zia vs Sheikh Hasina: All you need to know about ‘Battle of Begums’

4 min read . 07 Aug 2024

Professor Mohammed Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, a micro credit institution, explains to villagers the benefits of the system at Kalampur village in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman, File) (AP)

Who is Muhammad Yunus? The Nobel Laureate to lead Bangladesh's interim govt

3 min read . 07 Aug 2024

A defaced wall mural of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee / AFP) (AFP)

Bangladesh violence: How ouster of Sheikh Hasina to affect ties with India?

4 min read . 06 Aug 2024

Demonstrators carry signs during a protest over the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and in support of Palestinians in Gaza, near the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan August 2, 2024. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni. (REUTERS)

Netanyahu’s ‘Abraham Alliance’ challenges Iran’s dilemmatic ‘axis of resistance’

8 min read . 04 Aug 2024