Xi announces 2 ‘envoys of friendship’ for US Chinese President Xi Jinping brought a softer touch to his meeting with US President Donald Trump and other White House officials on Thursday, announcing that two giant pandas would soon head to Atlanta as an “envoy of friendship”.The announcement was the latest development in a new panda…
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…
Rape-murder of A law student: Petitioner Ameer-Ul-Islam seeking transfer from Viyyur Central Prison in Kerala to a jail in Assam NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday laid down safeguards against the immediate arrest of a parent or family member accused under the POCSO Act when the alleged offence involves a child living under the…
Official logo of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (representative image) NEW DELHI: In a move that may boost port-adjacent industries by allowing storage of specific chemicals in coastal areas, the govt has expanded the list of petroleum and chemical products permitted for storage in the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) by amending the…
Akhilesh Yadav greets the crowd at the party’s PDA Rath Yatra campaign for the 2027 Assembly elections, in Raebareli NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused the Election Commission of facilitating what he called “vote theft” of the PDA bloc in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, claiming that his party would…
Gavin Newsom’s San Francisco childhood home is on the market for $4.5 million, decades after his family sold the property. (Photo: Getty/Kit Castagne, Arbor Visual Media) California Governor Gavin Newsom’s San Francisco childhood home has hit the market for $4.5 million, decades after his family sold the property. Newsom lived in the two-level house for…
Influence over Hormuz has given Iran a form of leverage that is disproportionate to its conventional economic and military weight. It has been more than 200 days since the US-Iran war began, and yet the conflict remains without a conclusion. One can expect a superpower like the United States, with the biggest economy and overwhelming…
Widow of Dave Fiji, an Indian-origin Delta pilot who died in a helicopter crash minutes after his wedding, filed a lawsuit against the helicopter company. Four months after Dave Fiji, an Indian-origin Delta pilot, lost his life in a helicopter crash minutes after his wedding, Jesni Sam, the Georgia bride who survived the crash, has…
Electric transmission towers in frame as Power ministry sends draft National Electricity Policy 2026 to Cabinet NEW DELHI: Union power ministry has finalised the draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) and moved the Cabinet note for inter-ministerial consultation.Released in Jan this year, the draft National Electricity Policy has proposed index-linked automatic annual tariff revision, sought to…
A massive skyscraper rising in Midtown Manhattan has turned tens of millions of used waste bottles into part of its structural support. The project shows how city waste can replace carbon-heavy building materials on a large commercial scale. Workers used special concrete containing ground recycled glass in the foundation and floor slabs of JPMorgan Chase’s…