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US President Donald Trump on Thursday welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House, formally beginning Xi’s second state visit to the United States.Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, as a military band played. Xi arrived in a black Hongqi N701 SUV, the Chinese equivalent of the...

Govt sources issue clarification amid UPI MDR row NEW DELHI: Banks will monitor merchants to ensure that the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions is not passed on to consumers, news agency ANI reported citing government sources on Thursday. Further, they said that not a single penny from MDR will come to government, rather...

Mushtaq Khan, ‘Welcome’ and ‘Gadar – Ek Prem Katha’ actor, passes away at the age of 56 Veteran Bollywood actor Mushtaq Khan, a familiar face in Hindi cinema for over three decades, has died. He passed away on Thursday evening, September 24, at Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital, where he had been admitted for the past 15...

A volunteer searches through the rubble of Shajareh Tayyebeh school, shattered by a U.S. airstrike on Feb. 28, in Minab Outdated intelligence, a rushed targeting process and reliance on an AI-enabled system may have contributed to the deaths of more than 150 people, including at least 123 children, in a US missile strike on a...

The report alleges outdated data fed to AI may have caused the tragedy Saudi Arabia issued an emergency alert for Mecca on Thursday amid an escalation in attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, warning of potential danger in the holy city for the first time during the latest flare-up.The alert was later lifted, with Saudi Civil...

File photo: BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress leader and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday escalated his attack on the Centre and the Election Commission over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that India’s elections had been “rigged” and demanding...

– Athletics – Paloma Mizuho Sports Park, Nagoya, Japan – September 24, 2026. India’s Poovamma Raju Machettira in action during the 4 x 400m Mixed Relay Final India added another athletics medal to its Asian Games tally on Thursday as the mixed 4x400m relay team of Manu, Vithya Ramaraj, Poovamma and Vishal TK won silver...

Representative picture Engineers working to upgrade a busy highway junction near San Francisco in 2000 faced a serious technical problem. The ground was made up of about 30 feet of unstable bay mud, a soft type of soil that could sink or crack under the weight of normal road-building materials. To solve the problem, project...

BJP counters Rahul Gandhi with Tamil Nadu, Bengal poll history NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi‘s claim that anti-incumbency has “disappeared” for the BJP because of its alleged collusion with the Election Commission drew a sharp response from the ruling party. BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi cited the Congress’s electoral record in states including Tamil...

Subrat Manocha (right) was arrested on Wednesday night and sent to judicial custody on Thursday. LUCKNOW: The son of a pharmaceutical trader allegedly conspired to kill his father fearing that the 60-year-old man, who had relationships with several women, might end up transferring his property to another woman, police said Thursday, days after arresting the...