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The meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping is still very much on the table even as the two countries get embroiled in escalating trade tensions.US treasury secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said that he still expects a meeting between the two presidents.“He will be meeting with Party Chair Xi in…

Australia’s captain Alyssa Healy watches the replay of her dismissal as she walks off the field after losing her wicket during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup match between India and Australia at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) Alyssa Healy’s blistering 142 powered Australia to the highest…

Brittany Mahomes (Imagn Images) Patrick Mahomes may have lit up the scoreboard Sunday night, but it was his wife, Brittany Mahomes, who stole part of the spotlight off the field. The Kansas City Chiefs’ first lady showed up to GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in a bold, stylish outfit that had fans talking — but…

NEW DELHI: The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Monday eased the rules for partial withdrawal of the corpus, while insisting that at least 25% should be retained as “minimum balance” so that the over seven crore subscribers can build a significant retirement corpus and gain from compounding returns over their working life.“The liberalisation of…

Except for Pakistan, all of Afghanistan’s neighbours are “happy” with the country, Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Monday. “We don’t want conflict with anyone. There is peace in Afghanistan. Pakistan is not our only neighbour — we have five other neighbours, and all of them are happy with us,” Muttaqi said,…

NEW DELHI: A woman from Manipur was found dead, and her alleged live-in partner was critically injured in South Delhi’s Munirka on Sunday in what police suspect to be a case of murder followed by an attempted suicide.The deceased was identified as Thempi Khongsai, a beautician by profession. Her partner, Thangjam Viney Meitei, is undergoing…

NEW DELHI: India may scrap the proposed project to build another three French-origin Scorpene submarines at Mazagon Docks (MDL), while it goes full steam ahead with the plan to construct six new German-origin diesel-electric stealth submarines at the same facility for over Rs 70,000 crore.The plan for the three additional Scorpene submarines, which would have…

NEW DELHI: Noting that the Karur stampede in Tamil Nadu shook “national conscience” and the case has “political undertone”, Supreme Court Monday decided to hand over the probe into the tragedy to CBI & also appointed a three-member panel headed by its former judge Ajay Rastogi to supervise the investigation.Questioning the fairness of the investigation,…

A 26-year-old software engineer, Anandu Aji, was found dead in a lodge room in Thampanoor NEW DELHI: RSS has demanded an impartial probe into the death of a 26-year-old man from Kerala’s Kottayam district and dismissed as “baseless” a social media post in which certain RSS functionaries were accused of sexually and physically abusing him…

China rejects US sanctions China firmly rejected recent US restrictions and sanctions, pledging to take necessary measures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.In a post on X Monday, Chinese foreign ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian said, “China firmly rejects the recent US restrictions and sanctions on China, and will do what is necessary to protect…