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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told top Vietnamese officials that Washington considers building strong economic and security ties with Vietnam a priority

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike notice

While it can sometimes cause problems like power outages when it interacts with the Earth's magnetic field, it also enhances the chances of the aurora borealis being visible further south than usual. So, the Northern Lights might be more vibrant and easier to see!

Jennifer Lopez, too, had paps waiting for her outside her gym in Los Angeles, when she lost her cool. It so happened that JLo got locked out of her fitness studio, and was spotted knocking on the door. The 53-year-old singer failed to get in after repeated attempts. She then was spotted leaning against the wall before she was let in. J-Lo finally finished her workout session. As she came out of the gym, she saw the paparazzi waiting for her with cameras and was furious.TMZ has posted a video in which Lopez is seen shouting expletives at the media persons and saying, «Go away. Bye.» Jennifer Lopez recently celebrated her first wedding anniversary with her husband Ben Affleck with a day out with their family, including lunch for their kids and a car ride in Ben's Ford Bronco. JLo and Ben Affleck were later seen on a wedding anniversary dinner date, walking hand-in-hand. They were spotted at the Italian food joint Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica. Ben was seen hugging JLo before he took her hand and the couple stepped inside the restaurant.

Nuh district, women are taking action by writing postcards — an estimated 10,000 of them — addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Led by activist Sunil Jaglan, the founder of the 'Selfie with Daughter' campaign, the initiative aims to highlight the lack of higher education opportunities for women in the area, reports ToI.

«As you very rightly said that the form 26 AS and AIS are the most important forms that you require for your tax filing. Now, AIS is actually a very comprehensive statement,» says Preeti Khurana, Director, ClearTax.I think it is very important to get the basics clear over here and the major confusion that usually viewers have or taxpayers have is about Form 26 AS and the AIS where you have your entire annual financial information listed. So, the importance of these two forms and how can one look at it?As you very rightly said that the form 26 AS and AIS are the most important forms that you require for your tax filing.

Premier League (IPL), billionaire Anand Mahindra was asked to invest in the now-hugely successful short-format cricket tournament that transformed the global fortunes of the sport. The tycoon, who heads the automotive and industrial conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., wasn’t particularly interested in what he considered a dull, passive vanity project. But it did spark an idea.

Xi Jinping met with veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger in Beijing, state media reported on Thursday.

First Solar of the US will invest «billions of dollars» for solar panel production in India that will not source materials from China, US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm told ET. She also indicated that Tesla is in discussions for investing in India. «India brings in the notion of scale, and the US' contribution is laboratories and efforts we are making to incentivise production.

Foxconn unit, which sells components to the likes of Apple and Lenovo to garner about a third of the Taiwanese contract manufacturer's aggregate revenue, is looking to build an operational facility in Tamil Nadu by next year, multiple people aware of the discussions told ET. Foxconn's parent company Hon Hai Technology already has large existing facilities in Tamil Nadu and is looking to further ramp up these sites. For instance, it manufactures iPhones for Apple exclusively in a facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike notice after already halting shipments in and out of ports in Canada’s west coast region of British Columbia for nearly two weeks

BBC staff in Cairo have concluded their three-day strike for equal pay with colleagues across the Middle East but threatened future collective action if their demands are not met

Trinamool Congress MPs visited ethnic strife-ravaged Manipur on Wednesday. The delegation comprised Rajya Sabha leader Derek O'Brien, Rajya Sabha MPs Dola Sen and Sushmita Dev, and Lok Sabha MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Kalyan Banerjee. They visited Lamka.

Russia warned that from Thursday any ships traveling to Ukraine's Black Sea ports will be seen as possibly carrying military cargoes after Ukraine said it was setting up a temporary shipping route to try and continue its grain exports. The moves by both countries on Wednesday came just days after Russia quit a deal — brokered by the United Nations and Turkey — that allowed the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain for the past year, and revoked its guarantees of safe navigation.

By Timothy Gardner

TEHERAN : India could have played a more active role in West Asia, said Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, just months after China helped broker a key normalisation pact between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Speaking to a delegation of Indian journalists in Tehran, Kani said Indian diplomacy had shown “passivity" in the region in contrast to China. “I believe,among the great powers of the world, it is the Chinese party that has emerged victorious because it did not allow the United States’ illegal restrictions to affect its bilateral relations with different countries.

A recent Wall Street Journal editorial suggested Canada should sit at the kiddies table in the NATO alliance instead of with the adults. This is because as a share of GDP our defence spending is seventh lowest among NATO’s 31 member nations. It’s also lowest among the G7, which prompted the Journal to question whether we are still willing to accept our responsibilities as a member of the G7. It concluded that if this country “doesn’t want to play that role, then the G-7 should consider a replacement.”

Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday said it would not be appropriate to say if Pakistani citizen Seema Haider, who entered India illegally in May and is staying with her partner in Noida, is a spy «unless we have enough proof». Seema (30) and her Indian partner Sachin Meena (22) were questioned by the Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad on Monday and Tuesday. They were first arrested by the local police in Greater Noida on July 4 but were granted bail by a court on July 7.

Five European Union countries will extend their ban on Ukrainian grain to protect their farmers’ interests

Opposition BJP were suspended on Wednesday after they tore up copies of the Bills in the Karnataka assembly and hurled them at the Chair, while staging a dharna protesting the assignment of IAS officers on protocol duty for politicians participating in the Congress-led all party meet on Tuesday. The BJP and JDS members raised a storm as soon as the House met, taking strong objection to the Congress regime drafting senior IAS officers on political duty, something they said had never occurred in the history of Karnataka.

Election Commission of India on Wednesday began its public hearings in Guwahati on the Delimitation proposal for Assam. The Commission, comprising Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel are hearing representatives from political parties, civil society organisations and other sections of society over three days till Friday. After the proposal was published in June, 2023, suggestions and objections were invited till the 11th of this month.