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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea | Oct 30, 2025 US President Donald Trump will be meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in April, while Xi is expected to visit the US later this year. Trump, without announcing an exact date of the meeting,…

DHAKA: The bloodied body of a young Hindu tea garden worker – his hands and legs tied with ropes – was found in Kamalganj upazila in northeast Bangladesh on Wednesday, a day before polling. Ratan Shuvo Kar was the second Hindu to be killed since Monday, amid a series of attacks on members of the…

NEW DELHI: Worried about foreigners accused in NDPS cases securing release under the ‘bail not jail’ principle only to disappear, Supreme Court is exploring the creation of licensed professional bail bondsmen, who would stand surety for non-citizens and ensure their availability during trial.Dealing with an NDPS case where a foreign national, Chidiebere Kingsley Nawchara, secured…

New Delhi: Observing that the fundamental right to speech and expression did not give anyone the licence to denigrate a citizen or a community, Supreme Court on Thursday disapproved of the title of the film ‘Ghooskhor Pandat’ and made it clear to the producers that it would not allow its release if the name was…

Amidst the voting in Bangladesh, India said Thursday that it stands for free, fair, inclusive, and credible elections in the country. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) also said India had declined Dhaka’s invitation to send observers for the polls.“We should wait for the outcome to see what sort of mandate emerges, and thereafter, we…

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police’s special cell questioned some members of the publishing team at Penguin Random House India on Thursday in connection with the alleged leak of former Army chief General (retd) MM Naravane’s unpublished memoir.The interrogation, which came a day after investigators issued notice to the publishing firm, lasted two hours. There could be…

DHAKA: Tarique Rahman-led BNP was cruising to the halfway mark of 150 – winning 120 of the 300 parliamentary seats and leading in 55 more – leaving behind its rival and Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, on Thursday, as counting was under way after Bangladeshis voted in the first national election since the 2024 ‘July…

NEW DELHI: Giving a push to ‘Make-in-India’ initiative, the defence ministry on Thursday inked a Rs 2,312 crore contract with defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for production of eight Dornier 228 Aircraft for the Indian Coast Guard.The contract was signed under the “buy (Indian) category” in the presence of defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh.The…

NEW DELHI: Potholes claimed 9,438 lives over five years, from 2020 to 2024, according to govt data. Uttar Pradesh alone reported 5,127 of these fatalities, more than half of all pothole-related deaths, while more than half a dozen states and UTs, including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, and Chandigarh, reported “zero” road crashes, injuries, or deaths…

NEW DELHI: Ahead of assembly elections in Kerala, PM Narendra Modi delivered a pep talk to party members recently elected to the state’s local bodies and asked them to build up its agenda of good governance and deepen its connect with the masses, asserting that voters are fed up with the ruling LDF and main…