“I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Trump said in a post on social media. “What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!”Trump on Monday also threatened to also divert billions in grant dollars away from the university.Harvard didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Gruenbaum referred to alleged discrimination at the Harvard Law Review. A federal task force recently called out the Review’s award of a ,000 fellowship to a protester who faced criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student on campus, a decision that the government claims was “reviewed and approved” by a faculty committee. To regain its program certification, Harvard was given 72 hours to provide six categories of information about foreign students over the past five years, including disciplinary records and video of those engaged in protests. Harvard still hasn’t turned over the requested information.The letter alleges that Harvard has continued to “engage in race discrimination, including in its admissions process and in other areas of student life” and says that the government is “aware of recent events at Harvard University involving anti-Semitic action that suggest the institution has a disturbing lack of concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students.”The Trump administration has already moved to freeze funding and block Harvard’s ability to enroll international students in an intensifying battle over what the president has cast as a failure by the university and other academic institutions to crack down on antisemitism, and part of a broader campaign against diversity efforts and left-wing bias.  

“We needed to move quickly because the consequences of revocation of visas for our international students were dire,” Garber told the Harvard Gazette. There will be a court hearing this week where Harvard will seek to extend the restraining order, he said.Harvard though has been front and center in the White House’s campaign, with the administration suspending more than .6 billion in federal research money and saying the school won’t be able to receive new funding. Trump has also repeatedly called for Harvard to lose its tax-exempt status, which would have significant financial implications, even with the school’s billion endowment.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has argued that Harvard’s responses to the government’s requests to provide information about misconduct by foreign students were insufficient.Administration officials are pressuring schools including Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern and other elite universities to institute broad policy changes, raising concerns over academic freedom, free speech and government interference. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling new interviews for student-visa applicants as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of social-media profiles, a move that will impact higher education across the country.The letter, first reported by the New York Times, asks agencies to report on their “actions or intended actions with respect to each referenced contract” by June 6.More stories like this are available on bloomberg.comPublished on May 27, 2025 President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University, marking the latest escalation of its battle against the oldest and richest US school. Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum, in a letter seen by Bloomberg News, is directing federal agencies to review their contracts, terminate those that they deem not critical and transition to other vendors if necessary. The contracts are worth an estimated 0 million, according to a person with knowlege of the matter, who asked not to named discussing the administration’s moves. The government has sought a series of changes as a condition of continuing its financial relationship with the university. It has demanded the university remake its governance, transform admissions and faculty hiring — which the administration has called discriminatory — as well as stop admitting international students who officials say are hostile to American values. Harvard President Alan Garber, who’s Jewish, has apologized for Harvard’s handling of antisemitism on campus and acknowledged that he has experienced prejudice himself at the school. But he has also said the extent of the government’s demands show that “the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism.” The university has sued the US government over the cuts to funding as well as the block on enrolling international students. The university last week won a temporary court order blocking the government from enforcing the foreign student ban.

So much so, Jaishankar was forced to come up with the quip that the “US was in the United States”, when recently asked about the country’s role in the Indo-Pak cessation of hostilities by Dutch TV, indicating that it was too far away to have made a difference.

The US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims of brokering peace between India and Pakistan following the recent military conflict between the two countries have posed big problems for the the External Affairs Ministry. Confronted at various forums, both within the country and outside, with the question on the US’ role in the peace talks, the diplomatic skills of Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his team are being put to the severest test.Maintaining that the ceasefire was reached by the two countries through bilateral talks was difficult and creditable.

Hogging the limelight

Joining on the stage with the IT company’s CEO Christian Klein and other top SAP executives were Abhinav Gupta, SVP, Enterprise Product, NBC Universal; Anand Radhakrishnan, CIO, KIND; and Aravind Srinivas, Co-Founder and CEO, Perplexity. Praveen Moturu, Global Vice President–Digital Platforms, Mars Information Services, Inc, addressed the customer success keynote. They shared their respective company’s association with SAP to a packed audience at the Orlando Convention Centre.Her brother, KTR, who is also the Working President of the party, tried to douse the fire, saying that the leaders should discuss issues, if any, internally. Our Bureaus

Letter to father

At the keynote of the SAP Sapphire event organised by German IT company SAP at Orlando in the US last week, there was a strong line-up of top Indian executives of large global multinational.Published on May 25, 2025 Sibling dispute is common in a family-owned business or political party which is synonymous with a family. Kalvakuntla Kavitha, the daughter of BRS Founder-President KCR, dropped a bombshell last week, sending shockwaves among the party cadre and leaders. In a letter to her father, which was “leaked” to the media, she gave a scorecard of his speech at the party’s foundation day. While praising him on a few counts, she flagged some negatives that “disappointed” her. She even questioned his decision to go slow on criticising the BJP, which is cutting into the party’s vote bank across the State. The party cadre wished that the leadership would dismiss it as a fake letter.Will India’s polite rebuttals need to become more direct? Well, that may depend on how seriously Trump pursues the matter in the future. If he is hoping for a Peace Prize, we may have not heard the last on this yet!