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Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to work with the incoming US administration of Donald Trump as he held his final talks with outgoing President Joe Biden on conflicts from cyber crime to trade, Taiwan, the South China Sea and Russia. Biden met Xi for about two hours at a hotel where the Chinese […]

At COP29 in Baku, India expressed frustration with developed countries for not seriously discussing how to support climate action in developing nations, saying it is impossible to tackle climate change without financial and technological help. Delivering a statement in the closing plenary of the subsidiary bodies’ meeting on the Mitigation Work Programme (MWP) on Saturday, […]

Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot’s walkout from Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party was the culmination of a rift that had its genesis in the division of portfolios held by Manish Sisodia after he was arrested in the Delhi liquor policy case. Mr Sisodia, then Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, held the maximum number of portfolios – […]

Actor-singer and Big Boss participant PS Fareeduddin was held for allegedly possessing banned narcotics, Excise officials said here on Sunday. The actor, popularly known as Pareekutty, and one of his friends were arrested with MDMA and ganja during a routine vehicle check at Pullikkanam in this hill district on Saturday night. The actor has appeared […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended condolences to the people of Nigeria for the loss of lives due to the devastating floods that hit the country last month and announced to send 20 tons of humanitarian aid to support the relief efforts. “On behalf of 140 crore Indians, I express condolences over the loss […]

The Lebanese army said an Israeli attack on Sunday killed two soldiers, accusing Israel of directly targeting their position in south Lebanon where the Israeli military is fighting Hezbollah. “The Israeli enemy directly targeted an army centre” in Mari in the Hasbaya area, causing “the death of one of the soldiers and the wounding of […]

A government official received a show cause notice for allegedly laughing in the presence of his senior colleagues during a public hearing in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district. The show cause notice, issued on October 30, surfaced on social media on Saturday evening. The notice was purportedly issued by additional collector Milind Nagdev to KK Tiwari, […]

Nurse Megha James was on duty when the fire broke out at the Jhansi hospital and she threw herself headlong into the rescue efforts, playing a hero’s role by saving several babies. Even when her salwar got burned, she refused to give up and was able to evacuate 14-15 babies with others’ help. “I had […]

Well-known author and Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty has spoken of her pride in son-in-law Rishi Sunak, a British citizen with “good Indian cultural values” imbibed from his parents’ upbringing in the UK. Sudha Murty joined Rishi Sunak and her daughter Akshata Murty as the guest of honour at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s annual Diwali gala […]

In a shocking incident in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, an anesthesiologist, identified by his surname Qu, has been implicated in a tragic case involving his partner, Chen, a pharmaceutical sales representative. According to the South China Morning Post, he caused his girlfriend’s death by attempting to treat her insomnia with repeated anaesthetic injections. He administered […]

A one-and-half-month-old infant, kidnapped from the Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital, was rescued from Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur railway station while two suspects in the case were arrested, police said on Sunday. The rescue operation was carried out by the Delhi Police in collaboration with the Government Railway Police (GRP) and the Railway Protection Force […]

A faculty member of Government Medical College in Khammam district, Telangana allegedly took a student to a barber shop and got his head tonsured, prompting the government to order an enquiry into the incident, officials said on Sunday. Taking a serious view of the incident which happened on November 12, Telangana Health Minister Damodar Raja […]