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Details about the agreement, which US President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social, are limitedUnited States President Donald Trump said he has reached a trade deal with the Philippines, charging it 19 percent tariff rate for goods it exports to the US, while US goods will pay zero tariffs. The president announced the new agreement on Tuesday on his social media platform Truth Social shortly after his meeting with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr at the White House. “We concluded our Trade Deal, whereby The Philippines is going OPEN MARKET with the United States,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform…

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK this week, where he is expected to formally sign the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with his counterpart Keir Starmer, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved the deal.While the deal was announced on May 6, the text of the agreement was due to be released as legal scrubbing was ongoing. The formal signing is expected on June 24 in the UK, where PM Modi will be accompanied by Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal. Story continues below this ad The Cabinet decision, PTI reported, comes ahead of Modi’s four-day visit to the United Kingdom…

Tamil superstar Suriya, who is celebrating his 50th birthday on Wednesday (July 23), and his wife, actor-producer Jyotika, have for long reigned as Tamil cinema’s most-adored celebrity couple. The actors, who first met on sets of 1999’s Poovellam Kettuppar, fell in love while working on Gautham Menon’s acclaimed cop drama Kaakha Kaakha (2003) and married each other in 2006.On Suriya’s 50th birthday on July 23, 2025, The Hindu brings to you an exclusive blast from the past — from more than 20 years ago — when Jyotika interviewed Suriya about working with each other, the qualities they like in each…

Workers at a collapsed mine shaft in the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying to dig out their colleagues.

A four-day preventive health camp was inaugurated at the Cyberabad police headquarters on Tuesday. Organised jointly by the Cyberabad police, Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), Grace Cancer Foundation, and Pristine Eye Vision Foundation, the initiative aims to promote preventive healthcare and improve the overall well-being of staff. The camp, which will run from July 22 to 25, is dedicated to the 685 Motor Transport personnel of the Cyberabad police. Participants are being offered free medical services, including checks for height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure. Laboratory investigations such as diabetes screening, fasting blood sugar (FBS), lipid…

Writing in the Wisden, Gideon Haigh characterised the International Cricket Council (ICC) as “an unloved beast that is ostensibly a global governing body but too often looks like a forum in which the representatives of national monopolies come to split the spoils of cricket’s commercial exploitation.”In one of his more mellow moods, an ICC official once said that “if we sold the television rights to ICC board meetings, we would make a fortune…” Another thought meetings of the ICC Executive Board are almost pointless, since “Everything has been decided by the time they take place, on the basis who owes…

The Earth spun faster this month, recording the shortest day this year on July 10. The world is set to witness similar events on Tuesday (July 22) and next month (August 5). According to data from the Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service and the US Naval Observatory, reported by CNN, the Earth recorded its shortest day on July 10, by completing a full rotation faster by a fraction of a second (1.36 milliseconds). Until 2020, the shortest day ever recorded was -1.05 ms, which means the Earth completed its rotation in 1.05 milliseconds less than 24 hours. The Earth…

Different weight regain was observed in subjects with different characteristics, the researchers said. Image by jcomp on Freepik A review of data from clinical trials of weight-loss drugs has concluded that weight regain begins about eight weeks after stopping these medications, and continues up to 20 weeks, before stabilising at about 26 weeks. The paper ‘Trajectory of the body weight after drug discontinuation in the treatment of anti-obesity medications’ published in BMC Medicine, an open access, transparent peer-reviewed general medical journal, also observed that at 52 weeks, the subjects of the trial still weighed less than they did before starting…

Association of Indian Universities (AIU), the body responsible for university-level sport in the country, has come under the scanner of the Sports Ministry following allegations of ‘mismanagement and incompetence’ at the ongoing World University Games in Germany.The Ministry wants to revamp the organisation after introduction of the National Sports Governance Bill in Parliament on Wednesday. The bronze-winning Indian badminton squad at the ongoing Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany, found itself in controversy when it came to light that six of the 12 chosen players were barred from participating after Indian officials failed to submit all names correctly during the managers’ meeting…