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Masked men try to abduct woman in Dehradun; police form teams to nab them

A few women sanitation workers who witnessed the incident rushed to her aid. DEHRADUN: An investigation has been launched to identify and arrest two men who allegedly attempted to abduct a 46-year-old woman on Sahastradhara Road of Dehradun’s Raipur area, police said on Friday.The incident took place around 6.45am on Wednesday when the woman was...

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Trump-Xi bonhomie set to continue, leaders announce two more meetings

The two leaders held a 90-minute closed-door meeting on Thursday. According to the Chinese government’s readout, they discussed the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula. The White House did not release details of those talks. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet twice more this year, with the...

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Trump embraces Xi as peer, alarms partners and critics

TOI correspondent from Washington: A 48-hour state visit to the United States by China’s President Xi Jinping yielded no immediate major breakthroughs but confirmed the broad impression, in visuals and much as words, that Washington now accepts China as a peer in a new G-2 formulation.For all the talk of trade, artificial intelligence, Taiwan, Iran...

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CBSE names Mandeep K Bhandari as new chairman, appointment follows OSM controversy

Senior IAS officer Mandeep K Bhandari has been appointed chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (Image via Social media) The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has appointed 2001-batch IAS officer Mandeep K Bhandari as its new chairperson, with the government upgrading the post temporarily to the rank and pay of an Additional...

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Tea output slips, exports drop in January-July 2026

India’s tea production declined 1.7% year-on-year (YoY) to 658.3 million kg during January-July this year, according to data shared by the United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI). While the country’s tea output in 2025 had grown 7.1% YoY, production during the first seven months of this year sw pressure across major tea-growing regions. Output...

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America laughs as Trump pivots from ‘Kung Flu’ to hug Xi’s panda diplomacy

President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping walk along the Colonnade of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) TOI correspondent from Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington DC to negotiate trade, technology, tariffs and the future of the global economy. Instead, he got the most elaborate...

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