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Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has a better chance of retaining the White House in the US presidential polls than her boss Joe Biden, according to the latest CNN poll. The approval rating of President Biden, 81, has plummeted after his dismal debate performance in Atlanta last week against his predecessor and Republican rival Donald Trump. Since the debate, there have been increasing voices in the ruling Democratic Party for Biden, the oldest sitting US President, to step down and let someone else run the race for the crucial November 5 presidential elections. According to the CNN poll conducted by SRS, Trump, 78, is ahead of Biden by six points.

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Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday responded to the Lok Sabha Speaker expunging parts of his fiery Parliament address, saying that the truth might be expunged from the record in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's world but not in reality. «Whatever I had to say, I have said and that is the truth. They can expunge the truth in Modiji's world, but not in reality. The truth will prevail,» Gandhi told reporters at the Parliament complex. The Congress leader was responding to questions on remarks he made during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address in the Lok Sabha.

President Biden says Donald Trump is a lawbreaker, but his Administration is hardly any better. A case in point is its failure to file a report to Congress required by law on the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Sen.

CNN, two radio presenters who got an opportunity to interview US President Joe Biden expressed their surprise that the president could not answer even questions that were pre-approved by his team. The president had the questions given to him before the interview and yet he could not answer coherently. This just adds to a growing number of media reports that have suggested a ‘cognitive decline’ in the US President. A Philadelphia radio show host said that Biden’s team had fed her questions before the interview. She said that the president made certain bizarre claims during the interview. This has been reported by the New York Post.

Narendra Modi Wednesday said violence in Manipur is continuously declining and schools have reponed in most part of the state, and efforts are being made to ensure a return of complete peace. Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Modi said the Centre was working with the state government and others to restore normalcy in the state.

hotels as infrastructure in the upcoming Union Budget. This move aims to boost investment attractiveness and move away from luxury or 'sin goods' categorization. They also seek incentives like tax breaks for eco-friendly practices, emphasizing tourism's potential as a driver of GDP and job creation. «The sector is burdened with high taxation, expensive and multifarious licences, approvals and compliances. Hotels are capital intensive with a long gestation period. Cost of operating hotels is high and largely fixed. This makes investments in hotels risky. There is a need to make hotel investments more attractive with an improved rate of investment and to promote ease of doing business,» Hotel Association of India (HAI) President KB Kachru told news agency PTI. He emphasized that the upcoming Union Budget presents an opportunity to maximize India's hospitality sector contribution towards India Vision 2047 by redefining its policy perspective, shifting away from categorizing hotels as luxury or 'sin' goods.

Hurricane Beryl thrashed Jamaica with heavy winds and rain on Wednesday, killing at least one person after forging a destructive, water-soaked path across smaller Caribbean islands over the past couple days. The death toll from the powerful Category 4 hurricane climbed to at least 10, but it is widely expected to rise further as communications come back online across drenched islands damaged by flooding and deadly winds. In Jamaica, Beryl's eyewall skirted the island's southern coast, pummeling communities as emergency groups rushed to evacuate people from flood-prone areas.

Rahul Gandhi on Sunday flagged the plight of loco pilots and asserted that the INDIA bloc will raise its voice in Parliament to improve their rights and working conditions. Gandhi's remarks on X came as he posted a video of his recent interaction with loco pilots at the New Delhi Railway Station. «In Narendra Modi's government, the train of the life of loco pilots has been completely derailed,» the former Congress chief said. He said loco pilots are forced to work 16 hours a day sitting in cabins boiling with heat.

Presidential debates are mostly about style, not substance; the intended audience isn’t economists, but wavering voters. Last week’s debate was a case in point: President Biden’s disastrous performance led to calls for him to drop out of the race, recasting the election campaign. But substance still matters, and the debate left wavering voters without a clear case for either party on the economy.

Tata Digital as CEO, the resignation of Paytm Payments Bank MD and CEO Surinder Chawla, and the appointment of Rakesh Singh as CEO of Paytm Money, among others. ET analysed the top-level movements with data from executive search firm Longhouse Consulting.

Financial giants from Goldman Sachs & Co. to Morgan Stanley and Barclays Plc. are taking a fresh look at how a Donald Trump victory in November could play out in the bond market.

Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics have declared an indefinite strike to pressure South Korea’s biggest company to accept their calls for higher pays and other benefits

Telangana held meetings on Thursday with the candidates who contested in the elections. The three-member committee is led by senior leader and former deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha P J Kurien. Congress Lok Sabha member from Warangal Kadiam Kavya told reporters that the panel members asked her about the party's areas of strength and weaknesses and the steps to be taken to strengthen the party further.

US Presidential Debate as a disaster for the party and Biden. The president was seen to be fumbling and unable to speak coherently. This is reflected in a national survey which indicated that Trump has managed to retain his narrow lead in the contest over Biden. In this scenario, it is not only Biden who is being blamed. Three of his close advisors have come under sharp scrutiny. It is believed that they helped him to prepare for the debate. Biden’s family members and some donors have expressed their disappointment with these advisors and called for their removal. These three advisors are: Anita Dunn, her husband Bob Bauer and Ron Klain. Anita Dunn: She is Biden’s senior advisor for communications and has been a long-term aide of Biden. She is considered to be part of a trusted group of aides close to Biden. Earlier, she had served as Barack Obama’s campaign strategist. She is believed to have approved the debate strategy which has been a failure, according to many.

Vladimir Putin said that he may be forced to use nuclear weapons if the existence of his country is threatened, the specter of nuclear war has been haunting the US. It has increased with escalating the Russia- Ukraine War and mounting China-US pressure over Taiwan and the South China Sea. Amid these disturbing scenarios, a map has been released showing the potential targets in the US if a nuke war gets triggered. As many as 90 cities have found a place in the map, that may disturb not only their residents but also defense experts and the military.

Army Medical Corps who has been posthumously awarded the Kirti Chakra for exceptional bravery. Wearing a white saree and grief on her face, the young wife of the late officer, with her mother-in-law Manju Singh by her side, accepted India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award from President Droupadi Murmu on Friday during an investiture ceremony. In a video posted by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Defence on 'X' on Saturday, Smriti shared her memories of her husband and how they became soulmates. «He was very much capable. He would tell me, 'I would die with a brass on my chest. I would not die an ordinary death like no one would know',» recalled Smriti.

Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra, leader of opposition R Ashoka, and several party workers were detained by the police on Wednesday as they tried to lay seige to chief minister Siddaramaiah's home in Bengaluru to a protest to protest the alleged Valmiki Development Corporation scam and the recent fuel and milk price hike. The leaders also demanded a CBI inquiry and the CM's resignation in connection with alleged irregularities in Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA). “We will continue our demonstrations. In the next stage, we will protest inside the Houses of the state legislature until the cases are handed over to the CBI. The CM should resign,” Ashoka said after the protest. The BJP, he added, wanted the contentious allocation of sites to be cancelled immediately. “More than 86,000 people have applied to MUDA for sites. They did not get them. They are still waiting for sites. But the CM was allotted a site in a jiffy,” he said. The government, Vijayendra alleged, was protecting MUDA officials by just transferring, not suspending, them. “They are trying to cover up corruption. We will protest across the state,” he added.

Congress, BRS working president K T Rama Rao on Tuesday slammed Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi saying he does "Oscar-level acting on protecting the Constitution". K T Rama Rao (KTR) also said the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is gearing up for a legal battle against its defecting members and announced plans to file a petition in the Supreme Court. The move comes in response to a recent wave of defections that saw seven MLAs, six MLCs and one Rajya Sabha MP switch allegiance to the Congress party. «We will meet all those who are custodians of the Constitution,» KTR, who is the son of BRS chief and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, told reporters on Tuesday.

Sergey Lavrov has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Russia, calling it a success, adding that he stated the two leaders discussed almost each and every issue mentioned on the agenda including cooperation in global organizations like G20, BRICS, and the UN. While speaking to ANI, Sergey Lavrov mentioned Russia's support for India to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. «I think the visit was very successful. They discussed each and every issue on the bilateral agenda. They discussed the international situation, our cooperation in G20, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in the United Nations, where we support the Indian interest to become a permanent member of the Security Council, like we do for Brazil and African candidates,» said Lavrov.

Narendra Modi broke his «silence» on the situation in Manipur, which has been on the boil since May 3 last year, when he asserted in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday during the reply on motion of thanks to the President's address that all efforts were being taken to restore peace and welcomed suggestions and help from all quarters in this regard. He also appealed to the Opposition to rise above party politics and warned those «adding fuel to the fire». In his reply that lasted a little over 100 minutes, the PM also spoke on the NEET paper leak, assuring the youth that their future will not be jeopardised and those guilty would not be spared. Modi also took jibes at the Opposition which staged a walkout 30 minutes into his speech as the Chair did not heed to its demand for an intervention by Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge, leaving the floor open for the PM to have his say uninterrupted. Unlike in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Modi finally heeded to the Opposition criticism that he skipped the Manipur ethnic crisis in his speeches both during the election campaign and in his public utterances since he assumed office for the third consecutive term.