Trump Threatens Iran With Nuclear Annihilation; Death Penalty for 9 Policemen in Tamil Nadu; Iran’s S&T Capabilities: Resilience, Innovation, Self-Reliance Amidst Decades of Sanctions
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April 6, 2026
Siddharth Varadarajan
US President Donald Trump held a bizarre, rambling press conference today, a day and a half ahead of his expletive-laden threat to bomb Iran into the stone age. Today he came as close as he has done so far in threatening to use nuclear weapons against Iran: ‘the entire country can be taken out in one night if we want’.
Nine policemen have been sentenced to death by a court in Tamil Nadu for the 2020 custodial murder of a father and son.
The Delhi high court has ordered the satirical X accounts ‘Dr Nimo Yadav’ and ‘Nehr Who’ – were withheld in India on the Modi government’s orders – restored. A detailed order is awaited but Justice Purushaindra Kaurav declined to unblock specific posts the government had objected to. As per X’s affidavit filed before the court, the official blocking order for Nimo Yadav stated that the account contained ‘defamatory posts in which photographs, videos and AI-manipulated content were used to create controversial posts
