Veterans say the Trump administration's confusing new rule may be 'targeting' immigrants who serve in war zones

The new policy applies to Green Card holders who serve in uniform. "Why are we targeting people who want to serve?" a leading veterans advocate said.

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Portuguese national interrupts TV interview, gives moving speech about Brexit's impact

Another spanner has been thrown into the works in the countdown to Brexit. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked the Queen to suspend parliament which will scupper MPs chances to block a no-deal Brexit. On Wednesday, the Queen approved Johnson's request, prompting a national outcry and protests across the country.During a Central London protest against prorogation (the official term for the suspension of parliament), a Portuguese woman, who has lived and worked in the UK for 20 years, interrupted an interview and delivered an impassioned and extremely moving speech about Brexit's impact on her life."I'm Portuguese and I worked here for 20 years and I have no voice and the Settlement Scheme is not working," the woman -- whose name is unknown -- told Sky News. The woman is referring to the EU Settlement Scheme, which allows EU citizens to apply to continue living in the UK once it's no longer part of the European Union. She had been attending the protest, stating her reason for attending as "because I need a voice." "I gave this country my youth, I'm very grateful for what you taught me but you must make me part of all this process," she said. "I can't just be kicked out, I've built things for you, I've looked after your children, I looked after the elderly in this country, now you kick me out with what?"> A Portuguese national interrupted an interview to speak passionately to Sky News during protests against prorogation, saying she had "given her youth" to the UK > > For more on this story, head here: https://t.co/Bw9GJrZl0b pic.twitter.com/sFCZ1cnvrO> > -- Sky News (@SkyNews) August 28, 2019Per BBC News, a no-deal Brexit would result in the UK immediately exiting the EU with no agreement on Oct. 31. "Overnight, the UK would leave the single market and customs union -- arrangements designed to help trade between EU members by eliminating checks and tariffs (taxes on imports)," the BBC explains.The woman said she is "very, very hurt" by what's happening to the country. As she was about to walk away from the interview, the Sky News journalist urged her not to go away, and asked what was happening with her Settlement Status application. She explained that she'd been told her National Insurance number (the UK version of Social Security) didn't "correspond to the right thing" and she's been told she has to restart the whole process. "Oct. 31 is fast approaching, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? How am I going to stay? What are my rights?" she said.  WATCH: Watch Zuckerberg's face freeze after a far-right politician credited Facebook for Trump's win and Brexit

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West Virginia state senator charged with prostitution

West Virginia state Sen. Mike Maroney has been charged with soliciting a prostitute. The Republican lawmaker turned himself in and was arraigned Wednesday morning, a Marshall County court clerk said. Maroney exchanged text messages to discuss prices and set up meetings with a woman who has acknowledged being a prostitute, according to a criminal complaint.

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Omar tweets she received death threat targeting her at the Minnesota State Fair

"I hate that we live in a world where you have to be protected from fellow humans," said Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota.

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Brigitte Macron speaks out against sexism amid G7 Amazon fire funding row with Brazilian president

France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, hit back on Thursday at mockery of her age and appearance on Jair Bolsonaro’s Facebook page amid a war of words between the Brazilian president and her husband that has left £18m in emergency funding for the Amazon in limbo. Her comments came as Mr Bolsonaro, accused by critics of allowing tens of thousands of fires to rage unchecked in the Amazon rainforest, announced a two-month ban on fires deliberately started by farmers. Critics have accused the Brazilian president of allowing farmers to start fires in order to clear forest for crops or grazing. Mrs Macron, 65, did not mention Mr Bolsonaro by name, but implied that the 64-year-old president was out of tune with contemporary attitudes to women.  Mrs Macron thanked the thousands of Brazilians who had offered apologies on social media for their president’s approval of a post deriding her for being nearly 25 years older than her husband, Emmanuel Macron, the French president. The post implied that Michelle Bolsonaro, the 37-year-old wife of Mr Bolsonaro, 64, was better looking than the French first lady. Mrs Macron said: “Times are changing. There are those who are on the train of change, women are there with you, like you, you’ve almost all understood, gentlemen. Not everyone, some are still on the platform and I’m sure they will soon get on the train.” A fireman works to extinguish a fire at a forest near Porto Velho, Brazil, 28 August 2019 Credit: REX Her comments won sustained applause as she inaugurated a newly refurbished museum devoted to the Battle of Agincourt at a ceremony with the British ambassador, Edward Llewellyn, at the site of the 1415 English victory over the French in northern France. “It’s not just for me, it’s for all women,” Mrs Macron said. “Things are changing and everyone must realise it.” The diplomatic clash between the French and Brazilian presidents came as Mr Macron tried to lead international efforts to help Brazil put out the fires, which he sees as a global problem because the world’s largest rainforest produces 20 per cent of its oxygen. Mr Bolsonaro, whose critics have labelled him “Captain Chainsaw” because of what they say is his disregard for the environment, rejected £18 million in aid from the G7 announced at a summit hosted by Emmanuel Macron, the French president, in the coastal resort of Biarritz at the weekend. But he has accepted a separate £10m offer of assistance from the United Kingdom. State governors and agribusiness leaders from the Amazon region have implored Mr Bolsonaro to accept financial aid from the G7, fearing that continued tensions could harm Brazil’s exports. Mr Bolsonaro has now outlawed all uses of fire in the region except for farming in indigenous communities, but he stressed that the ban was only temporary. “The people there set these fires, it's a tradition,” he said. Data from Brazil's Institute of Space Research has shown the increase in fires this year is linked to a rise in deforestation, with illegal land grabbers clearing areas of virgin forest in order to sell to agribusiness firms. Under domestic and international pressure, the government is expected to launch a series of environment-related measures next week including curbs on deforestation and gold panning. Local media have warned of a new Amazon gold rush stemming from relaxed oversight and poverty. On Wednesday, Donald Trump lent his support to Mr Bolsonaro. “I have gotten to know [Mr Bolsonaro] very well during our dealings with Brazil”, Mr Trump tweeted. “He is working very hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of Brazil.” Mr Bolsonaro thanked him, saying that the “fake news campaign built against [Brazilian] sovereignty will not work.”

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Wave of child sex abuse lawsuits threatens Boy Scouts

The Boy Scouts of America is facing a threat from a growing wave of lawsuits over decades-old allegations of sexual abuse. The Scouts have been sued in multiple states in recent months by purported abuse victims, including plaintiffs taking advantage of new state laws or court decisions that are now allowing suits previously barred because of the age of the allegations. A lawyer representing 150 people who say they were abused as Boy Scouts is planning a suit in New Jersey when the state's new civil statute of limitations law takes effect Dec. 1.

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We need Unions for All. It's a bold agenda for helping everyone get ahead in our economy.

We need serious plans to empower all workers to form unions, no matter what job they do. 'Unions for All' is our litmus test for 2020 candidates.

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At 5%, GDP growth hits over 6-yr low in Apr-June

The country's GDP growth slowed to an over six-year low of 5% in the April-June quarter, dragged down by manufacturing sector expansion of just 0.6%, sluggish financial services, farm and construction sectors and a slowdown in consumption. “The slowdown in growth is due to endogenous and exogenous factors,” said chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian.

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Nripendra Misra retires from PMO, Cabinet Secy PK Sinha moves in

The PM took to Twitter to convey his best wishes to Misra for his future endeavours.

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Assam waits for final NRC results today

To give more confidence to the people, the government has increased the time for filing an appeal to the tribunal to 120 from 60 days.

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AYUSH, Yoga are two strong pillars of 'Fit India': PM Narendra Modi

The Prime Minister further says that India has vast and ancient texts highlighting the importance of Ayurveda and Yoga

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OPINION: Recharging system need of hour

The need of the hour is to develop a recharge system in such a way that the rainwater finds its way to the underground table and charge the aquifers.

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Supreme Court takes Centre, Maharashtra to task over deluge

The tragedy claimed 45 lives and affected almost six lakh persons.

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Eye on self-reliance to spur Maharashtra's economy, says Sudhir Mungantiwar

This week's DNA Newsmaker, Maharashtra's Finance and Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, opens up on economy, politics, farmers, and tigers. From boosting the production of eggs to incense sticks, the minister explains the need and the road map for the state to cut imports, in order to realise PM Modi's trillion-dollar economy target

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Patna-born MLA: I'm an example of how Russia accepts outsiders

Russ In Boots: Patna-born doc talks about being an MLA from Putin's party

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Cops mistaken as child-lifters, gheraoed in Uttar Pradesh

However, after someone informed the local police, they came and rescued these police officers

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Bias & Fake News: Must separate views from facts

If a professional has to address facts then he or she needs to segregate facts from opinions.

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Lie Tolstoy' manufactured by a section of media

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri summed up the drama in a tongue-in-cheek tweet: As it turns out the judge trolled all the woke 'war and peace' liberal warriors and in the end, made them look like idiots.

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Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali faces Rs 62 lakh fine under FEMA

Watali is being probed by the NIA and the ED for allegedly pushing funds from LeT's Hafiz Saeed into Kashmir to fuel unrest in the Valley

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Efficient Move: Must not choke credit flow

The amalgamation process may choke management bandwidth, which should not result in slowdown in credit flow to the economy.

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In big bank reform, 10 merged into 4

Six banks to continue their regional focus

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Another Lord Ram's 'scion' emerges from Rajasthan

This comes after the royal families of Jaipur and Udaipur claimed for the same

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The Latest: Queen approves request to suspend Parliament

Ireland's foreign minister says it's too late to renegotiate Britain's departure deal from the European Union. Foreign Minister Simon Coveney on Wednesday reiterated Ireland's opposition to the EU renegotiating the Brexit agreement approved by former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. Coveney said there wouldn't be enough time before Britain's Oct. 31 departure deadline "even if we wanted to" reopen the negotiations.

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Secret Service, police in standoff with barricaded suspect in Fairfield

BARRICADED SUSPECT: The Secret Service along with police are in the middle of a standoff in Fairfield.

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Joe Biden warned about ‘welfare mothers driving luxury cars’ in a 1988 column

Former VP Joe Biden's half-century of public life has drawn extensive attention to his record on race and civil rights in the 2020 Democratic primary.

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इंदौर आई हॉस्पिटल के डायरेक्टर और सुप्रिंटेंडेंट के खिलाफ एफआईआर दर्ज

एक माह से फसल बर्बाद कर रहे थे, परेशान किसानों ने 150 मवेशी कलेक्टोरेट में छोड़े

पीएम के फिट इंडिया कार्यक्रम में नपा ने व्यवस्था की 150 लाेगों की... पहुंचे 6; स्कूली बच्चों को बुलाया, वे भी नहीं आए

First gear: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's e-buses on the run

Home Minister flags off 8 of 50 electric vehicles

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Banking frauds rose 74% to Rs 71.5K cr in FY19

Banks reported frauds worth Rs 41.2K cr in 2017-18, as per RBI's yearly report

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With FDI rules eased, Apple to sell iPhone, iPad online in India

Escalating trade tensions between the US and China, and New Delhi's latest investment rules could provide a boost to Apple

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Samsonite, Panasonic tie up for IoT baggage

Jai Krishnan says that the intent is to provide the consumers with a superior technology-enabled piece of luggage which is feature-packed and changes the way they look at travel

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Bihar MP Baidyanath Mahato's car rolls right onto train platform

The incident took place on Wednesday when the divisional railway manager was conducting an inspection of the station.

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S-400 missile system by '23, advance pay to Russia done

Russia is ready to take all necessary efforts to follow the time parameters of this agreement, says Roman Babushkin

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Colgate, Marico likely to be in limelight today

On the weekly charts, Nifty hovering near the rising channel pattern suggests upside is intact for the near term

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ISI-Style: Open season for abuse in Pakistan

It is open season for exploiting girls in Pak, nevermind what Khan says about protecting minorities.

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Sikh woman abducted, forced to convert in Pakistan

The incident took place in Pakistan's Punjab province, in a Nankana Sahib town, birthplace of Guru Nanak Sahib.

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BrahMos supersonic missile may be exported to friendly countries

BrahMos ramjet supersonic cruise missile can be launched from land, aircraft, ships and submarines

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Emoji marketing is getting big for companies

Experts say brands should add a personal touch to their emoji marketing strategies

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Pakistani commandos might infiltrate India through Kutch, Gujarat ports on high alert

All ports in Gujarat along with the entire security apparatus including the Border Security Force are on high alert after intelligence inputs that trained commandos from Pakistan would infiltrate Indian territory through the Gulf of Kutch via Harami Naka creek to create communal disturbance or carry out a terror attack.

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New Delhi proposes round-3 of Kartarpur talks next week

The focus of the meet will be to finalise the agreement on the modalities for Kartarpur corridor and will follow a technical-level meeting to finalise the alignment of the temporary road

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Centre's EV push faces logjam as companies seek infrastructure first

M&M has launched a few products, especially for fleets, now plans to launch eKUV later this year

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उत्तर प्रदेश की तरह शक्ति संतुलन कायम करें दक्षिण भारत के पार्टी नेता : मायावती

पार्टी द्वारा जारी एक बयान में गुरूवार को कहा गया कि इन राज्यों का...

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Ballia School: DM orders probe but says prima facie caste bias allegations false

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Iran could restore oil output to pre-sanctions level within three days: minister

Iran would need three days to lift its oil production back to the level it was at before U.S. sanctions were imposed, the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying on Tuesday. "Three days are needed to return production to the levels before the reduction," Zanganeh said, according to the report. U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from world powers' landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and reimposed sanctions in an effort to curb the Islamic Republic's ballistic missile program and support for regional proxies.

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US approves $3.3bn sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan

Washington approved the $3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally. Japan will buy up to 73 of the Raytheon-made SM-3 Block IIA missiles, which are designed to be fired by the ship-board Aegis system to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, the Pentagon said. The sale came as North Korea is expanding its offensive missile capabilities, having proven over the past two years the ability to launch medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, potentially nuclear-tipped, that could hit both Japan and the United States.

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सुहागरात में पत्नी न घूंघट में मिली, न शरमाई, तलाक के लिए पति पहुंचा कोर्ट

खजराना गणेश मंदिर सेफ भोग प्लेस घोषित, महाकाल मंदिर के बाद देश में ऐसा दूसरा मंदिर

ढाई साल से फुटपाथ पर बच्चों को हॉकी सिखा रहे भारतीय टीम के पूर्व गोलकीपर नेगी, मैदान पर बना दिया कचरा स्टेशन

1.5 lakh gold artisans leave Gujarat due to lack of work

The overall dip in sales has affected wholesalers, retailers and artisans alike, and the sector is hoping the government will introduce relief measures just as it has for automobile and real estate sectors.

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Mamata Banerjee's campaign helpline turns into job-hunt portal for youth

Ever since the campaign was launched, there have been a lot of calls on the campaign helpline.

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Odisha teachers to lose raises over bad results

After issuing the letter, Minister of School and Mass education, Sameer Dash says that the government is trying to strengthen and systematise the Odisha educational system

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Train half empty for railways, glass half full for public

Quarter Down: 25% off on poor-performing routes to improve earnings

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Tata Global, MCX, ICICI Bank likely to be in limelight today

The current bounce could last another 3-5 days, post which we could see a downturn

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Justice Akil Kureshi's file back with Collegium

While the contents of the letter will be taken up in the Collegium meeting - scheduled for Wednesday evening - its arrival has ended the wait for the Gujarat High Court Advocates Association

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Supreme Court to hear petitions against Article 370 revocation by Oct

Article 370 permitted J&K to have its own Constitution, flag and laws, distinct from that of India.

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Sensex snaps three-day gains on slowdown worries

S&P BSE Sensex closed 189.43 points, or 0.50%, lower at 37451.84, while NSE Nifty 50 closed 59.25 points, or 0.53%, lower at 11046.10

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Gujarat government to use Rs 1500 crore CAMPA fund to increase forest cover

Patel said the fund will be used for compulsory afforestation, developing cultural forest, ensuring moisture preservation through model plots.

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Sitaram Yechury, a local get conditional Supreme Court nod to visit Kashmir

Meanwhile, The apex bench also sought an affidavit from the Centre on the two petitions that have questioned the clampdown, within a week

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Transparency: A step towards digitisation

The problem lies in implementation. Around 10 years ago, there was talk of property tax for individual flat owners. This has not been done so far. The database of the land records & registration departments must be linked to reflect changes in ownership immediately. At the time of issuing property cards, a problem may arise over documents expected from flat owners & transactions during the transitory period, & issues of legal heirs & encumbrances.

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Maharashtra set to issue ownership cards for apartments

The new decision will grant ownership rights to verticle structures and ensure easier transactions on immovable properties.

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Acquiring for talent

Start-up giants are buying newbie ventures that score high on technology

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Not scared of Pakistan's nuclear bogey, says Lt Gen MM Naravane

We are ready to face any challenges. Whatever we do it is keeping long-term goals in mind, says Naravane

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DNA IMPACT: BMC removes illegal Sena banners at Western Express Highway

The hoardings had lined the highway all the way till Dahisar, where the event to honour the Yuva Sena chief was held on Monday.

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PNB lists property in e-auction without proper documents

PNB put up a property owned by Shell Packaging in MIDC on e-auction to recover a non-performing loan

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योगी सरकार के प्रशासन पर अखिलेश यादव ने उठाए सवाल, कहा- बीजेपी ने उत्तर प्रदेश को बना दिया 'हत्या प्रदेश'

अखिलेश यादव ने कहा कि प्रदेश में लूट, अपहरण, बलात्कार की घटनाएं भी थमने का नाम...

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Arpinder falls centimetres short

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A man's truck was stolen while he was robbing a store across the street, police say

A Washington man called police to report his vehicle as stolen. Police say surveillance footage shows he was stealing from a store when it happened.

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Can you reconsider Jaspal Rana’s award snub, Delhi High Court asks govt

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खंडवा में चौथी कक्षा के बच्चों से प्रधान शिक्षिका ने साफ कराए शौचालय, वीडियो वायरल

आई हॉस्पिटल का लाइसेंस निरस्त व प्रबंधन पर एफआईआर के आदेश

रतलाम में तीन घंटे में 5 इंच बारिश दिल्ली-मुंबई ट्रैक 5.30 घंटे बंद रहा

भुगतान नहीं किया तो किसान व्यापारी के घर धरने पर बैठे

Now, PG in medical science planned in Jammu and Kashmir

The course will offer studies in five areas of medical science - Anesthesia, Medicine, Gynae, Surgery, Pediatrics - and involve the best-in-class education and training.

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Finally, after Supreme Court rap, Uber starts 24x7 safety helpline for women

This is in addition to the already present in-app SOS button, available in the safety toolkit that allows riders to connect with law enforcement authorities in case of an emergency

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Infosys closes Rs 8,260 crore buyback offer, gets 11 cr shares

The buyback started on March 20

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Supreme Court refuses to stay razing drive around Puri Jagannath Temple

Two petitions were filed in SC seeking stay on the state government's order of demolition of unauthorized constructions in the temple's vicinity.

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Inter-caste marriage: Chief Minister Vijay Rupani vows to untangle NOC knot

Dr Savita Ambedkar Inter-Caste Marriage Scheme gives aid if one partner is a Dalit

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No direct proof: Bombay High Court upholds Jigna Vora's acquittal in J-Dey murder case

While convicting Chhota Rajan and eight others for the killing of Jyotirmoy Dey, who was the then crime and investigations editor at Mid-day

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Govt eyes earthern kulhads to create jobs

The MSME ministry aims to create five crore jobs in addition to the present 11 crore jobs

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Nitin Gadkari says funds under roads & highways tied up

Gadkari explains his plans to promote road transport, green vehicles, curb accidents and also boost growth in roads, highways, and MSMEs

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'Ambulance Dada' seeks financial aid for treatment

Following his appeal, Trinamool Congress leader and state Food and Supplies Minister, Jyotipriyo Mullick, has stepped up to provide assistance

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Fine not enough: Private buses to lose licence for illegal parking in Mumbai

Private buses could get deregistered if parked illegally, with the BMC stepping up its efforts to clear city roads of congestion. School buses will be spared the punishment.

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Apollo Hospitals, Bata India, BoB may log gains

The medium term trend is still negative, and once this bounceback is over the downtrend will resume

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INX Media case: Now, CBI wants P Chidambaram to undergo a lie detector test

Facing major issues in extracting information from "highly intelligent" P Chidambaram, the CBI wants him to undergo a lie detection test in INX Media case, sources in the agency said. The agency can conduct a polygraph test only if the person on whom the test is being conducted has consented to it. The probe agency is, however, apprehensive if Chidambaram will give it the go-ahead.

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Uddta Punjab: Mom chains drug addict daughter to bed

The case has thrown off the claims made by the Punjab government which downplay the extent and severity of the drug addiction crisis in the state.

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INX Media case: P Chidambaram willing to 'face perjury' if foreign homes, accs found

The statement came in response to an affidavit filed by the ED, alleging that Chidambaram held 17 bank accounts and 10 prime properties abroad in the name of his co-conspirators

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OPINION: Intellectual terrorism

What The Wire and its journalists did was no investigation. It was pure rabble-rousing.

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The Wire earns Supreme Court ire for yellow journalism

The strong remarks came after The Wire journalists chose to withdraw their petition, which had sought quashing of a defamation case filed against them by Jay Shah.

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Ex-minister Chinmayanand booked for abduction

Three days after a 23-year-old LLM student went missing, the Shahjahanpur police has lodged an FIR against former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand, for allegedly kidnapping and threatening to kill her. The former minister is the chairperson of the SS Postgraduate College of the city where the girl is pursuing post-graduation in law.

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Bihar MLA Anant Singh struggles to adapt prison life

The Independent legislator was remanded to judicial custody for two weeks in connection with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case lodged against him by a Patna court on Sunday.

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Supreme Court admits govt's plea against ban on diesel vehicles

The Tribunal order putting a cap of 10 years for diesel vehicles and 15 years for petrol vehicles was attacked by the Centre for being without any legal basis.

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Congo fever death rings alarm bells across Gujarat

75-year-old woman from Limbdi taluka died during treatment

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First Gujjar girl clears AIIMS entrance exam

VALLEY OF FLOWERS: J&K resident Irmim Shamim walked 10 km daily to her school

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Conservation: Tortoise wins race to get star protection, otter hops on too

Star tortoise, smooth-coated and small-clawed otters up-listed for protection globally at India's behest

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Gold closing in on Rs 40,000 mark

Spot gold in the international market was trading higher at $1,529 an ounce in New York

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Jal Shakti min pushes to improve 'recharge'

This is necessary as groundwater levels are dangerously declining due to continuous withdrawal that caters to increased population, industrialisation and urbanisation along with increasing vagaries of rainfall

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Ganpati 'boards' a train to Jammu and Kashmir for soldiers

Lord on LoC: Ghatkopar woman takes 6-ft idol, Bordercha Raja, to Poonch

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INX Media Case: CBI gets P Chidambaram's custody till Aug 30 to 'unearth' conspiracy

CBI has alleged that Chidambaram and his family members' assets and bank accounts are spread across 14 countries and most of them are linked to his son Karti Chidambaram.

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Govt plans Rs 1.2 lakh cr play in city gas biz

PNGRB has awarded licences for setting up city gas distribution networks in 136 geographical areas

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Donald Trump Upstaged at G7 By Foreign Minister of ... Iran

Jeff J Mitchell/ReutersIt looked like President Donald Trump was set up for a diplomatic ambush at the Group of Seven summit on Sunday when Iran’s foreign minister suddenly flew into town.The arrival of the smooth-talking Javad Zarif at the elegant French beach resort of Biarritz, where the leaders of the seven most industrialized democracies are gathered, underscored a key conflict between Trump and the rest about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions. ‘Absolute Amateur Hour’: Team Trump Mangles Messages to IranLast year, the U.S. pulled out of an agreement that severely limited for several years Iran’s production and stockpiling of nuclear fuel and imposed an extensive inspection regime. Trump claimed the accord forged under Barack Obama was a disastrous deal, and he could do better.A senior French diplomat told reporters at the G7 summit in Biarritz that Macron informed Trump over lunch on Saturday that Zarif would be coming, and told the rest of the summit participants at dinner that night. The Trump administration imposed sanctions specifically targeting Zarif earlier this month, but when Trump was asked for a reaction after the the visit became public, his initial comment was, “No comment.”Although Trump has said he would be willing to meet with Iran’s leaders, they have so far declined, and a tweet from the Iranian foreign ministry stated flatly, “There will be no meetings or negotiations with the American delegation on this trip.”Trump has insisted he can force Iran to make more concessions, not only about nukes, but about its missiles and extensive proxy forces outside its borders, most notably Hezbollah, and to that end the U.S. has imposed draconian sanctions crippling the Iranian economy while punishing its trading partners.Germany, France and Britain–all signatories of the Iran deal, and all represented at the G7–have sought desperately to shore up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the agreement is called. They share Trump’s view that missiles and proxies are serious issues, but they believe it makes more sense to keep the nuclear agreement that exists rather than throw all the cards up in the air.To try to keep Iran on board, the Europeans have been discussing various mechanisms to try to bypass the American sanctions, but with little success. Meanwhile, step by calculated step, Iran terminates bits of the JCPOA. As Iran-U.S. Tensions Rise, Hezbollah Readies for War With IsraelIn June, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, also at the G7 this weekend, visited Tehran to try to calm the situation, but to no avail. Indeed, holes were blown in a Japanese tanker by mysterious, presumably Iranian, agents at the same time as Abe’s visit.It’s likely that Zarif’s visit to Biarritz is mainly political theater orchestrated by Macron, and there is little hope it will resolve an increasingly dangerous standoff between the U.S. and Iran. Already we have seen attacks on shipping near the strategic Strait of Hormuz and the recent British seizure, then release against U.S. objections, of an Iranian tanker at Gibraltar. Last month, when Iran downed an American drone it claimed was over its territorial waters, Trump gave a green light, then a red one, to a retaliatory attack that would have killed a number of Iranian personnel.Meanwhile, as The Daily Beast has reported, Iran’s clients in Lebanon and Syria, the Hezbollah militias, are preparing for war with Israel as part of a wider conflagration, and Israel is attacking Iranian installations in Iraq as well as Syria.What Zarif’s visit to the G7 summit might do is calm the situation and buy some time.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Man found with mummified remains called dangerous to society

Prosecutors called a New Jersey man "dangerous to society" after pieces of a human body were found in his closet, including a head, part of an arm, and a torso dressed in a necktie and suit jacket. Robert Williams, of Newark, pleaded not guilty Monday to desecrating human remains and separate charges of child sexual abuse. Police initially went to Williams' home to investigate allegations he abused a 12- to 13-year-old boy over several months, but when they searched the apartment they found an altar and mummified human remains that had apparently been used in religious ceremonies, according to prosecutors.

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A Giant Raft of Volcanic Rock From an Underwater Eruption Could Help Revive the Great Barrier Reef

Chunks of rock from an underwater volcano are carrying living organisms

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Amazon fires: Brazil sends warplanes to dump water on devastating blaze after international outcry

Brazil’s warplanes are dumping water on fires across the Amazon, as Jair Bolsonaro’s government scrambles to contain the damage following an international outcry.A video posted by Brazil’s Defence Ministry on Saturday evening showed a military plane pumping thousands of litres of water as it passed through clouds of smoke close to a forest canopy in Rondonia state.

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Candidate who wanted city as white 'as possible' ends run

A city council candidate in Michigan who said last week that she wants to keep her community white "as much as possible" withdrew from the council race on Monday. Jean Cramer stopped by Marysville City Hall to say she was leaving the race and later, at the request of city officials, put her withdrawal in writing in a one-sentence letter that did not give a reason for why she dropped out, the Times Herald in Port Huron reported. Her name will remain on the Nov. 5 election ballot. "Just checking the calendar here and making sure it's still 2019," Mike Deising said.

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‘Safe Haven’ Israel Became Hot Money Bait for Central Bank Chief

(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Israel’s economic transformation has turned it into an “emerging markets safe haven” that continued to absorb money from abroad despite maintaining near-zero interest rates, according to central bank Governor Amir Yaron.The inflows in recent years were a reflection of “the structural change in the fundamentals of the Israeli economy,” including the country’s declining debt burden and current-account surpluses, Yaron said in a speech at the annual retreat for central bankers from around the world in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,“In spite of having kept rates very low, Israel faced capital inflows following the U.S. rate hikes,” Yaron said in prepared remarks. “And appreciation pressures emerged -- a marked change from past patterns.”Israel has struggled to normalize its monetary policy after years of near-zero borrowing costs. As a strong currency dampened inflation this year and major central banks turned more dovish, Yaron put off a future hike and said in late July that rates won’t rise for a “long time.”Yaron cited research to demonstrate how “Israel is caught in between” policies in major economies. Unlike the period before the global financial crisis a decade ago, short maturities on Israeli government bond yields are now more correlated with Europe’s while longer tenors more closely track the U.S.“A challenge for the policy makers in markets like Israel is to deal with divergence of policies in the major blocs,” Yaron said.Another issue he raised in Jackson Hole was Israel’s weak inflation, which he said had been higher than among its peers before slowing.“Such developments make real-time assessments of whether policy makers are faced with transitory divergence or structural economic changes a challenge,” Yaron said. “While there is a wish to not be behind the curve, the uncertainty and ambiguity suggest a call for greater patience and risk aversion.”To contact the reporter on this story: Ivan Levingston in Tel Aviv at ilevingston@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Lin Noueihed at lnoueihed@bloomberg.net, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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7 escape injury in fiery plane crash at California airport

Seven people escaped unhurt when a large transport plane they were on crash-landed and caught fire at Southern California's Santa Barbara Airport, authorities said. The crew declared an emergency and diverted to Santa Barbara, where it landed on its belly and skidded along a runway, the FAA said. Firefighters sprayed the aircraft with foam to douse the flames sparked in the crash.

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Exclusive: Iran says it will not negotiate missile work, wants to export more oil

Iran wants to export a minimum of 700,000 barrels per day of its oil and ideally up to 1.5 million bpd if the West wants to negotiate with Tehran to save a 2015 nuclear deal, two Iranian officials and one diplomat told Reuters on Sunday. A second official said "Iran's ballistic missile programme cannot and will not be negotiated.

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5 Facts About Queen Elizabeth's Scottish Summer Retreat

The monarch is currently hosting Prince William and Duchess Kate at Balmoral Castle

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Fallout from Russia's mysterious missile disaster suggests a nuclear reactor blew up

An explosion at a Russian weapons testing site in August released radioactive isotopes that almost certainly came from a nuclear reactor, experts say.

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Armed Jewel Thieves Rob New York Diamond District Store Popular With Rappers, Celebrities

Avianne and Co's customers have included Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne

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Chandigarh traffic Police Problem: Shortage of towing vehicles, abundance of complaints

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Chandigarh 24×7 water supply: A distant pipe dream

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BMC plans vertical gardens on pillars

Plan is to beautify pillars of Metro rail, flyovers and Monorail, and avoid political banners

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Gujarat: FMCG dealers won't buy from manufacturers or sell to malls

They claim that recent tactics by the companies and organised retail have shrunk margins of dealers and distributors

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Free Mother India of plastic: PM Narendra Modi

In his monthly radio address, Prime Minister says a new revolution against plastic must start from Oct 2

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Maharashtra to lure herbivores to give tigers square meals

FAIR GAME: Forest dept plans meadows to translocate prey to sahyadri reserve

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Crocodile escapes cage to wander off, captured

No injuries were reported in the incident

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Glenmark to recall drugs in US market

The ongoing voluntary class III recall is due to complaints received of "liquidy texture", says US FDA

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Jharkhand: 'Panchayat' strips woman nude after she was abused by nephew

The 'panchayat' at Dengidoh village in Jharkhand's Koderma district held the woman guilty, though she is the alleged victim

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Before festival rush, Railway Protection Force cracks down on touts

Starting August 22, the RPF has begun raiding touts across all five divisions who black market tickets as part of "Operation Thunder"

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CVC forms panel on bank frauds

The ABBF would undertake the first level of examination before recommendations are made to the investigative agencies

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OPINION: Prices will come down

In MMR, there are 2.9L unsold units

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CIDCO to construct over one lakh affordable houses in Sanpada

The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) presented a proposal, prepared under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna

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Madhya Pradesh Food Department raids kitchen serving Shatabdi train

During the raids, the food department officials seized several rotten items, including 25 kg rotten onion, that were being used to prepare meals for the passengers in the train's base kitchen

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Luxury car companies upbeat after rollback of super rich tax

Around 15,000- 17,000 luxury cars were sold in the first half of 2019, in comparison to around 20,000 units a year earlier

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GOLDEN GIRL: It was total dominance

Until Sunday, everyone was believing it was possible to win Superseries, but now, they will think of world championships

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World champion PV Sindhu gifts India its first badminton gold

It is a victory that the tall shuttler from Hyderabad thoroughly deserved, perhaps more than anyone

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Madhya Pradesh: In Jabhua, students struggle for basic needs like school building

One such school is the Kalyanpura Secondary School which has a capacity of 409 students, but only seven classrooms to offer

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MFs rush in equity products to ride volatile markets

Recently, Sundaram Mutual launched Sundaram Equity Fund, an open-ended equity scheme investing across large cap, mid cap and small cap

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The Latest: HK police draw guns as protesters chase them

Hong Kong police officers have pulled their guns and reportedly shot a warning shot after they were attacked by protesters with sticks and rods. The protesters called the police "gangsters" as they chased them on Sunday night following a standoff with police earlier in the evening. The incident happened after police used tear gas to clear a large group of protesters who had occupied a street in the outlying Tsuen Wan district.

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Seven dead in Majorca air crash as sightseeing helicopter collides with ultralight plane

Seven people, including two children, died when a sightseeing helicopter and an ultralight aircraft crashed in mid-air over Majorca. The helicopter had three adults and two children on board, all of whom were killed. According to the Balearic Islands government it was believed they were all German. However, a local report suggested one of them may have been Italian. Two men in the ultralight, who were local to Majorca, also died. An ultralight is a form of small aircraft with only one or two seats. Both aircraft were in private use, according to the Diario de Mallorca newspaper. Emergency services were called to the crash at 1.35pm local time, and the mid-air collision happened over the Inca Hospital, in the municipality of Inca, in the north of the island Wreckage from both aircraft was strewn across parts of the town and rural areas. Photographs circulated on social media showed one section landed on fire on what appeared to be a garden wall. A tail section from one of the aircraft came down on a road, and another section crashed into a farm field. Pedro Sanchez, Spain's caretaker prime minister, sent his sympathies to the families of the dead. He wrote on Twitter: "My solidarity and love for the families of the victims that lost their lives in this tragic accident," The Balearic islands government said an investigation into the cause of the tragedy had been launched. More than nine million holidaymakers visit Majorca annually. Of those, more than two million are British. As many as 500 cruise ships now dock in Palma each year, depositing up to 22,000 passengers a day.

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UPDATE 9-Iran's Zarif leaves G7 talks, unclear if progress made to ease tensions

Iran's foreign minister made a flying visit for talks with host France at the G7 summit on Sunday, as Paris ramped up efforts to ease tensions between Tehran and Washington, a dramatic diplomatic move that the White House said had surprised them. European leaders have struggled to tamp down the brewing confrontation between Iran and the United States since Trump pulled Washington out of Iran's internationally-brokered 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on the Iranian economy.

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White House insists Trump not having second thoughts on China trade war

* Asked he is rethinking tariffs, president says: ‘Sure. Why not?’ * Press secretary: Trump regrets not raising tariffs higherDonald Trump admitted on Sunday to having second thoughts about raising tariffs against China, sparking brief hopes of a possible truce in the trans-Pacific trade war. But his spokeswoman later insisted the only regret the president had was not imposing even greater tariffs.It appeared to be the latest incident in a White House pattern, in which Trump appears to say something conciliatory in public, only for the olive branch to be snatched back by officials.At a breakfast meeting with the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, Trump was asked if he was rethinking his decision to escalate tariffs against China.He replied: “Yeah, sure. Why not?”Asked again, he repeated: “Might as well. Might as well … I have second thoughts about everything.”White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, however, said the president’s “answer has been greatly misinterpreted”.> President Trump responded in the affirmative because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher> > Stephanie Grisham“President Trump responded in the affirmative,” she said, “because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher.”Trump’s chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, repeated Grisham’s line.“That was his thought,” he told CNN’s State of the Union, “it somehow got misinterpreted, I’m not sure he heard the question altogether, it was a very crowded room, I was there. That was his thought, that he needed to go higher.”Photographers were in the meeting room but were not taking shots when the first question was asked. No one other than the president and his questioners was speaking.Trump insisted China’s approach to trade had been “outrageous”.“Presidents and administrations allowed them to get away with taking hundreds of billions of dollars out every year and putting it into China,” he said. The US has long accused China of dumping, forced technology transfers, and wholesale intellectual property theft.Kudlow said he did not expect China to retaliate against Trump’s latest tariff raise, announced on Friday, telling CBS’ Face the Nation “his was an action to respond to their action. So I doubt whether they’re going to take another step”.Trump denied he had come under pressure from other leaders at the G7 summit, a club of major industrialised democracies, to ease up on tariffs.“Nobody’s told me that. Nobody would tell me that,” he said.But Johnson, speaking alongside him, did object, albeit politely.After congratulating Trump on “everything the American economy is achieving”, the prime minister added: “But just to register a faint sheeplike note of our view on the trade war: we’re in favour of trade peace on the whole, and dialling it down if we can.“We think that, on the whole, the UK has profited massively in the last 200 years from free trade, and that’s what we want to see … we don’t like tariffs on the whole.”“How about the last three years?” Trump responded, laughing. “Don’t talk about the last three. Two hundred, I agree with you.”On CNN, Kudlow claimed the clip of Johnson saying “we don’t like tariffs” had been “taken out of context” and added: “I’m not sure what you just played was something from that meeting. It sounds to me like it came after the meeting.”It did not.On Saturday, Donald Tusk, president of the European council, noted: “Trade wars will lead to recession, while trade deals will boost the economy.”On Friday, Trump threatened to use national security powers to declare an emergency to force US companies to leave China. That triggered accusations that he would thereby abuse presidential powers not intended for executive control over commercial decisions. Trump insisted he would be acting within his rights.“I have the right to, if I want,” the president said. “I could declare a national emergency.“I think when they steal and take out, and – intellectual property theft, anywhere from $300bn to $500bn a year, and where we have a total loss of almost a trillion dollars a year – for many years, this has been going on – in many ways, that’s an emergency.”Trump said, however, he would not be invoking the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act – originally intended to help the White House isolate rogue regimes – for the time being.Boris Johnson meets Donald Trump. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA“I have no plan right now,” he said. “Actually, we’re getting along very well with China right now. We’re talking. I think they want to make a deal much more than I do.”Demonstrating a view of how tariffs work that has repeatedly been questioned, he added: “We’re getting a lot of money in tariffs. It’s coming in by the billions. We never got 10 cents from China. So we’ll see what happens. But we are talking to China very seriously.”In May, Kudlow famously said “both sides will pay” under Trump’s tariff policy. On CNN on Sunday, he was questioned about a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that said Trump’s policy would reduce average US household income by $580.“I probably quibble with that dollar amount that they have,” Kudlow said. “There’s virtually no question in our mind that the largest part of the economic burden on tariffs has fallen on China.”He added: “To the extent that there is an impact on American businesses and consumers, it is a small impact.”A key Trump ally, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, also appeared on CBS. He put the situation more bluntly.“We just got to accept the pain that comes with standing up to China,” he said.

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RBI board meets today, may discuss reserves level

The central board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will meet in Mumbai on Monday to take up the annual accounts. With the Bimal Jalan report on an ideal level of reserves to be maintained by the RBI having been submitted, the meeting is also likely to discuss the same. The August board meeting finalises the central bank’s accounts for the year and also decides on surplus to be transferred to the govt

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Cadet Komalika hits bullseye in Spain

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China is feeling the pain of U.S. tariffs. Now it's time for negotiators to secure a deal.

China's economy is weaker than it has been in a long time, leaving U.S. negotiators with incredible leverage. Now's the time for them to use it.

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David Koch's Millions Remade the Republican Party. He Didn't Like the Results

David Koch was the most vilified symbol of the billionaires who have turned 21st century politics their playground. He died at 79.

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Tear gas fired as Hong Kong police, protesters clash

Hong Kong riot cops fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles on Saturday, as a standoff in a working-class neighbourhood descended into violence, breaking an uneasy peace that had lasted several days. Earlier thousands of demonstrators, many wearing hard hats and gas masks, marched through the industrial Kwun Tong area, where they were blocked by dozens of riot police with shields and batons outside a police station. Frontline protesters -- known as "braves" -- pulled together a barricade of traffic barriers and bamboo construction poles.

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North Korea launches short-range missiles complicating US attempts for talks

North Korea fired what appears to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, the South Korean military said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks. A US official said the two missiles North Korea had fired appeared to be similar to launches in recent weeks. Saturday's launch, the seventh by North Korea since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met at the inter-Korean border in June, have complicated attempts to restart talks between US and North Korean negotiators over the future of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes. The two leaders agreed to restart working-level negotiations in June, but since then the United States has so far been unsuccessful in attempts to get talks going. US envoy on North Korea Stephen Biegun was in Seoul this week to discuss ways to get negotiations back on track. "We are prepared to engage as soon as we hear from our counterparts in North Korea," Mr Biegun said on Wednesday. But in recent weeks, North Korea has repeatedly criticised US and South Korean largely computer-simulated joint military drills, South Korea's import of high-tech weapons such as F-35 stealth jets, and US testing of its intermediate-range cruise missile as threatening and hindrances to dialogue. North Korean missile ranges On Friday, North Korea's top diplomat called US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a "diehard toxin," saying: "We are ready for both dialogue and standoff." South Korea's National Security Council (NSC) expressed "strong concern" over North Korea's continued launches despite the fact that the South Korea-US joint military exercises denounced by North Korea had ended. It called for North Korea to stop escalating military tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The NSC agreed to make diplomatic efforts to bring North Korea to the negotiating table with the United States as soon as possible for the complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's presidential office said in a statement. A senior US administration official said: "We are aware of reports of a missile launch from North Korea, and continue to monitor the situation. We are consulting closely with our Japanese and South Korean allies." Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya said that North Korea's missile launches were a clear violation of UN resolutions and cannot be ignored. He confirmed that missiles fell outside Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, and posed no immediate threat to Japan's security. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) said North Korea fired what appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles on Saturday at around 6:45 a.m. and 7:02 a.m. KST respectively from around Sondok, South Hamgyong Province. Sondok is the site of a North Korean military airfield. They flew about 236 miles and reached a height of 60 miles, JSC said. Japan's Coast Guard warned shipping not to approach any fallen debris. South Korea officially informed Japan on Friday of its decision to scrap an intelligence-sharing agreement, which Japanese Minister of Defence Takeshi Iwaya said was regrettable and showed that Seoul failed to appreciate the growing security threat posed by North Korea.

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Man Who Stopped to 'Assist' Woman Having Car Trouble Accused of Sexually Assaulting Her

Police in Monroe County, Indiana are working to identify a suspect in a rape case.

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The Latest: Hong Kong protest winds down after clashes

A large group of protesters has largely dispersed in Hong Kong after engaging in clashes with police for the first time in nearly two weeks. Riot officers used tear gas and nonlethal rounds Saturday after protesters took over a road in the city's Kowloon Bay area. The protesters regrouped several times to challenge police again before calling it a day as night fell.

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अगले 48 घंटों में मध्य प्रदेश के 20 जिलों में भारी बारिश की संभावना

मध्यप्रदेश के कुछ हिस्सों में सोमवार सुबह तक भारी से बहुत भारी बारिश होने की...

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दिल्ली यूनिवर्सिटी में लगी सावरकर, बोस और भगत सिंह की प्रतिमाओं को DUSU ने हटाया

दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में लगी स्वतंत्रता सेनानी भगत सिंह, विनायक...

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Watch: David Warner runs with cap between overs to save Josh Hazlewood’s legs

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Black Widow movie footage screened at D23 Expo, here’s all the details

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'Jaitleyji cared for journo friends', says Ravindra Singh

A towering leader, Jaitleyji was always there for journalists.

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A few days ago sister Sushma left us, today my friend Arun: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

PM is on a three-nation tour of France, UAE and Bahrain. He has already visited UAE and France and is currently in Bahrain.

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In Arun Jaitley the BJP loses a gentle giant who was a consensus builder

In Jaitley, the saffron party loses a gentle giant who had admirers across the political spectrum, and one of its foremost strategist?-intellectual and a consensus builder

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'Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's name was a byword for patriotism'

These were the words, not of any BJP or RSS leader, but of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi spoken on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's death on February 26, 1966.

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Rajneeti, In the age of hashtags

Twitter may not admit to banning people based on their political viewpoints, but our panelists refuse to buy this argument. This week's DNA Samwad discussed the drawbacks of the micro-blogging site and called for bringing in regulations to end hate-mongering

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Here's why Leonidas' armour came from Roorkee

Daily Warriors: City is the hub for creating weapons and suits for Hollywood and b-town

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OPINION: Govt can't take risk

It is well within its right to stop those individuals who could spread disaffection among the people of the state.

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Rahul Gandhi, 11 Opposition leaders land in Srinagar, packed off to Delhi

The delegation said they planned to visit many parts of J&K to access the situation and wanted to instil confidence among people and start the process of normalisation.

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Bihar cop creates stir by using MP's car to transport MLA Anant Singh

The Bihar police had requested the court for the transit remand so that he could be taken to Patna for further questioning.

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Britain will withhold $37 billion from EU in no-deal Brexit: Mail on Sunday

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to tell European Union leaders he will withhold 30 billion pounds ($37 billion) from the Brexit divorce bill unless they agree to changes to the deal, the Mail on Sunday reported. If Britain leaves the bloc without a trade deal, lawyers have concluded the government's will only have to pay the EU 9 billion pounds, rather than 39 billion pounds, the newspaper reported.

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US and Taliban resume talks on ending America's longest war

A United States envoy and the Taliban resumed negotiations Thursday on ending America's longest war after earlier signaling they were close to a deal. A Taliban member familiar with, but not part of, the talks that resumed in Qatar said U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad also met one-on-one Wednesday with the Taliban's lead negotiator, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Baradar is one of the Taliban's founders and has perhaps the strongest influence on the insurgent group's rank-and-file members.

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Russia test fires missiles from submarines in the Barents Sea

Russia test-fired Sineva and Bulava ballistic missiles from two submarines from the polar region of the Arctic Ocean and from the Barents Sea on Saturday as part of combat training, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The Sineva, a liquid-fueled intercontinental missile, was fired from the Tula submarine, while a Bulava, Russian newest solid-fueled missile, was launched from the Yuri Dolgoruky submarine, the ministry said.

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India bag gold in World Archery Youth Championships

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Russian doctor has trace of radiation after explosion

More than 100 Russian medical workers who helped treat victims of a recent mysterious explosion at a military testing range have undergone checks and one man has been found with a trace of radiation, officials said Friday. It was followed by a brief rise in radiation levels in nearby Severodvinsk, but the authorities insisted it didn't pose any danger. The Arkhangelsk regional administration said Friday that 110 medical workers have undergone checks that one man was found with a low amount of radioactive cesium-137 in his muscle tissue.

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Beto O’Rourke: As president, I’d institute a mandatory buyback of assault weapons

Only America has more guns than people. Follow the lead of moms demanding action and students marching for their lives, writes candidate Beto O’Rourke

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Iran unveils home-grown missile defence system

Iran unveiled its new home-grown air defence system on Thursday at a time of increased tensions with the United States. Iranian officials have previously called Bavar-373 the Islamic republic's first domestically produced long-range missile defence system. Tehran began making Bavar -- which means "believe" -- after the purchase of Russia's S-300 system was suspended in 2010 due to international sanctions.

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Man arrested for holding woman as sex slave and keeping her eight-month-old baby captive

A North Carolina man has been arrested after holding a woman and her 8-month-old baby captive for over a month, authorities said.The Pender County Sheriff’s department said in a press release they received an emergency call on 9 August from a woman who said she was being held against her will at a home in Willard, North Carolina.

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Trump dismisses recession warnings: 'I always find a way to win'

The president has crowed about the state of the economy despite words of caution from within his administration.

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OPINION: Parliament has rightly asserted its powers

The final hearing would happen before the Supreme Court, which would decide on its Constitutional validity

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Supreme Court agrees to hear triple talaq law, but...

...Asks petitioner, 'Why can't the practice be criminalised like child marriage & dowry laws, if it is still prevalent'

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Congress needs to admit that they are organisationally weak, says VBA chief Prakash Ambedkar

Outspoken and upfront, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar was the Newsmaker of the week. He unflinchingly spoke about reservations, caste-based politics, Bhima Koregaon violence, Congress-NCP alliance, and the government's failure in tackling the economic slowdown

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Newt Gingrich says slavery needs to be put 'in context,' calls 1619 project a 'lie'

"There were several hundred thousand white Americans who died in the Civil War in order to free the slaves," Gingrich argued.

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Russia rocket accident likely had two explosions, Norway monitor says

An explosion that killed five Russian scientists during a rocket engine test this month was followed by a second blast two hours later, the likely source of a spike in radiation, Norway's nuclear test-ban monitor said on Friday. The second explosion was likely from an airborne rocket powered by radioactive fuel, the Norsar agency said - though the governor of Russia's Arkhangelsk region, where the blast took place, dismissed reports of another blast. "The aftermath of the incident does not carry any threat," the governor, Igor Orlov, told the Interfax news agency.

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NYT Reporter Solicited Charitable Donation from Epstein, Refused to Report On Him

A New York Times reporter who was assigned to cover the now-deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein refused to do so due to his close personal relationship with the alleged pedophile, NPR reported Friday.In August of last year, veteran New York Times financial correspondent Landon Thomas Jr. was asked to investigate a tip that Epstein was advising Tesla founder Elon Musk. Thomas refused, telling his editors that he would not jeopardize Epstein as a source by reporting on him directly.Thomas, who had relied on Epstein as a source since the early 2000s, also admitted they had become such close friends that Epstein donated $30,000 to a Harlem cultural center at his request.“Soliciting a donation to a personal charity is a clear violation of the policy that governs Times journalists' relationships with their sources,” Times chief spokesperson Eileen Murphy told NPR. “As soon as editors became aware of it, they took action.”Thomas left the Times in January but it remains unclear whether the departure was related to his relationship with Epstein.The NPR article also detailed the tactics that Epstein and his legal team, led by Alan Dershowitz, used to kill negative stories in the press.A former editor at Vanity Fair said that the magazine's former editor-in-chief, Graydon Carter, believed that Epstein was responsible for a series of threats made against him in 2003 after he assigned a reporter to explore how Epstein earned his fortune. A severed cat head was delivered to Carter's home in Connecticut and a bullet was mailed to his Manhattan apartment.Epstein died of an apparent suicide in federal custody in New York on August 10. He was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Like Thomas, ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Katie Couric, and Woody Allen also kept in touch with Epstein after his 2008 prosecution for soliciting prostitutes, many of whom were teenage girls he lured to his home with the promise of cash for massages. All three attended a dinner at Epstein's house in December 2010.

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After Beating and Hernia, American Prisoner Paul Whelan Refused Hospitalization by FSB Doctors

KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEVMOSCOW–Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen held in Russia on suspicion of spying, looked pale and sick when his prison guards brought him to Lefortovo court on Friday. He said he had been beaten and is suffering from a hernia, but his condition is hardly a surprise after eight months in Moscow’s Lefortovo, a prison run but the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB, and it looks like Whelan has learned only too well how incarceration there operates.Whelan is facing 20 years in Russian prison for spying, after accepting a flashcard that allegedly contains some sensitive information. His family is far away, he does not speak the Russian language, and on top of everything the 49-year-old security manager for a Michigan-based auto parts company is suffering from a painful inguinal hernia, with part of his intestine having ruptured the abdominal wall.Paul Whelan, Accused U.S. Spy Held in Moscow, Says a Russian Investigator Threatened His LifeWhen the judge suggested calling an ambulance in the middle of the hearing on Friday morning, Whelan rejected the idea, as a useless waste of time: “The nurses won’t take me to a hospital, they will only check my blood pressure, temperature, and say, ‘You are fine,’” he told the court.By now Whelan must have learned the rules and brutal methods in Russian prisons. “No ordinary ambulance can take a prisoner who is under FSB investigation to the hospital,” Alexander Cherkasov, chair of the Memorial Human Rights Center told The Daily Beast. “There is a specialized hospital 20 where they normally take sick prisoners, after a certain bureaucratic procedure.”Also, no Russian nurse working for an ambulance carries strong painkillers. (Russian doctors are not allowed to prescribe strong drugs even for people dying in agonizing pain, so Russians suffer from pain all over the country, many committing suicide.)Whelan looked and sounded doomed. He said that his health condition worsened after his prison guard beat him. The incident happened earlier this month, when Whelan was being moved from one cell to another. Whelan’s lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, told The Daily Beast, “I have checked: prison guards did not know that my client had a hernia, they made him carry all his stuff himself to a different cell. The treatment in Lefortovo is inhuman.”  On Friday, Whelan told the judge, “If you call for a doctor who would hospitalize me, I don’t mind calling for the ambulance.” But just as he predicted, the nurses on call checked him right at Lefortovo Court and decided against his hospitalization.Whelan, who holds U.S., Canadian, British, and Irish passports, was arrested on December 28 in his hotel room a few steps away from the Kremlin. His lawyer Zherebenkov predicted early on the way the case was likely to develop: “They will pickle Paul for a year or more, as he is clearly just a pawn; and then they will swap him for some important Russian kept in American prison,” the lawyer told The Daily Beast in January.Almost eight months later Zherebenkov still has not seen any solid evidence establishing his client’s guilt. “The FSB  investigation has not presented us with a single solid piece of material, so our truth in this case is even stronger than half a year ago–that’s why FSB want more time,” the lawyer said.Meet Putin’s American Prisoner, Paul WhelanAccording to Media Zona, a group of journalists reporting on news about Russian prisons and court cases, at least 99 detainees died in detention centers and prisons used by investigators in 2016. Many more died in prison camps. “It is hard for us to find out what causes the deaths of prisoners—when prison guards crack somebody’s head open, they say that the detainee fell down and died in an accident,” Dmitry Shvets, a Media Zona reporter told The Daily Beast. But the problem is not just physical violence. “Lefortovo prison is famous for psychological torture by isolation. The inmates cannot communicate with each other, no prisoner has a chance to use a phone.”Whelan’s family was aware that the FSB wanted to extend the time for investigation for two more months. ”This morning's hearing was more theatrical than his previous hearings—ejecting the media, calling an ambulance—but we were not surprised by the result,” Whelan’s twin brother, David, told The Daily Beast.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Passengers furious with Delta as no hotels offered during 18-hour delay on flight from NYC to LA

Passengers, including "Dancing with the Stars" dancers, are furious with Delta after their flight from New York to Los Angeles was delayed multiple times -- and no hotel vouchers were offered.

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UPDATE 2-U.S. Justice Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer

Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed a three-week course of radiation therapy to treat a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, a court spokeswoman said on Friday. The 86-year old justice, who has had previous cancer scares, tolerated the therapy well and no further treatment is required, spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement. "The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the spokeswoman added.

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