Khushboo Razdan

5 days ago | thestar.com.my | Khushboo Razdan

Weeks after a tense and widely televised spat with Ukraine’s leader during a meeting expected to lead to a critical minerals deal, Donald Trump announced that the long-awaited agreement would be signed next week. “We have a minerals deal which I guess is going to be signed on Thursday,” the US president said during an Oval Office meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday.

6 days ago | thestar.com.my | Khushboo Razdan

Scarcely two weeks into Donald Trump’s celebration of “Liberation Day” on April 2, America’s bustling maritime gateways have emerged as ground zero for the consequences of the US president’s unpredictable tariff policies. Ports, logistics and trade-dependent businesses are finding their operations in disarray, while supply-chain analysts warn of greater uncertainty, rerouting, uneven port utilisation, slowed trade and job losses becoming the new norm.

6 days ago | thestar.com.my | Mark Magnier |Khushboo Razdan

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Washington and Beijing were talking and expressed confidence that a deal on tariffs would be reached soon but declined to say if he had spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping, as a brewing trade war threatens to roil the global economy. “We are confident that we will work out something with China,” he said during a late afternoon executive order signing in the Oval Office.

6 days ago | medium.com | Khushboo Razdan

Moving towards Progress or Peril? Legality of Nuclear WeaponsIt feels just like yesterday when Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed cinematic masterpiece Oppenheimer released. The movie sparked intrigue and dialogue, it lay bare in front of us the consequences of the father of the atomic bomb. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This phrase, borrowed from the Bhagavad Gita encapsulates the paradox of humanity’s pursuit of excellence in nuclear physics.

6 days ago | medium.com | Khushboo Razdan

When one hears the word “mushrooms” many factoids or images can pop into mind. Some think about eating them while others recall the classic red top mushroom with white specs in children’s colouring books (🍄) Others might have pondered on the lucrative business of growing them or remember the popular Tumblr posts citing “You cannot kill me in a way that matters”. Mushrooms show a great diversity of shape, colour and size.