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Disagreeing with US President Donald Trump’s move to impose high tariffs on allies, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy — a top leader of the rival Democratic Party — said here Wednesday that when it comes to the India-US bilateral trade deal, there will be a “landing place” on the 50% tariffs but there could be a “grand bargain” including on oil.The 25% penalty tariff was slapped on India last month for importing Russian oil. Incidentally, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, who was in the US recently for trade talks, said Wednesday that India’s energy security goals will have a “very…

Actor Vivek Oberoi has gone through his fair share of tragedies in life. His personal life and career has been through many ups and downs, and in the past, Vivek has opened up about many of those episodes. And in a recent interview, Vivek recalled one of the first tragedies he ever encountered in his life, when his childhood sweetheart passed away. In a chat with Prakhar Gupta on his YouTube channel, he recalled the time when he saw his childhood sweetheart pass away when she was just 17. Vivek was 18 at the time. “You have to be open…

A new hydrogel dressing infused with rose-derived extracellular vesicles (REVs) and carbon dots (CDs) has been developed to treat diabetic wounds. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Freepik Imagine if the delicate petals of a rose could help heal the stubborn wounds that trouble millions of people with diabetes. This idea, inspired not by high-tech machinery but by nature’s own toolkit, has been documented in a recent research paper published in the ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering journal. Researchers at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR in collaboration with researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai, have presented…

ChandigarhSeptember 27, 2025 09:08 AM IST First published on: Sep 27, 2025 at 08:42 AM IST Senior Communist leader D Raja was re-elected as General Secretary of the CPI at the 25th CPI Party Congress — a national conclave held once every three years — which concluded in Chandigarh on Thursday. In an interview with The Indian Express, D Raja discusses the current state of the INDIA bloc, CPI’s role in strengthening it, the country’s political future, and the relevance of Marxism in contemporary India. Excerpts: How do you rate Rahul Gandhi as Leader of the Opposition? Rahul Gandhi is…

Amidst tensions between India and Pakistan relations post the Pahalgam attacks and operation Sindoor as a response, there has been a question hanging around the India vs Pakistan clash in sports. While the clearance was made to play in the multi-national tournaments, the tensions between the players were palpable on the ground when the sides met in the ongoing Asia Cup. In the previous game, when these two sides played in the Super fours stage, Sahibzada Farhan, after scoring his half-century, and Haris Rauf, near the boundary line while fielding, were seen making provoking gestures. Pakistan’s head coach Mike Hesson,…

Steven Knight is probably Britain’s most prolific television creator, with Rogue Heroes, A Thousand Blows, Great Expectations, and This Town among his most recent shows, but he remains best known as the man behind the phenomenal Peaky Blinders.Good news, then, that his latest, House of Guinness, has more than a little of that show’s DNA. Based on the true lives of the great Irish brewery dynasty, it focuses on the year 1868 and the transition to a new generation. While the plot is Succession meets Downton Abbey, the style is all Peaky Blinders.Ben Blackall/NetflixThere are the same bold plans and…

Lorenz Kraus, 53, arrested for killing his parents after confessing on TV, is arraigned before Judge Joshua Farrell at Albany City Court on Sept 26. (Photo: The Albany Times Union via AP) A 53-year-old man in upstate New York admitted during a live television interview that he had killed his parents eight years ago and buried them in the backyard of their Albany home, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The confession by Lorenz Kraus came Thursday, a day after police said they recovered two bodies from the property as part of an investigation into Social Security payments that continued to…

Updated on: Sept 27, 2025 09:34 am IST At the UN, India dismissed claims of US mediation, stating that the ceasefire resulted from direct military discussions, not external intervention. India has reiterated that no third party was involved in the ceasefire with Pakistan after Operation Sindoor in May this year. At the United Nations General Assembly, India said Pakistan’s military “pleaded” with it for a cessation of fighting and that there is no room for any third party to intervene in any issue between New Delhi and Islamabad. First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Petal Gahlot made…

House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., talks about the Trump administration’s threat to terminate federal workers if the government shuts down Oct. 1.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump said that Microsoft should fire the firm’s global affairs president Lisa Monaco, who served in the administrations of past Democratic presidents. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Microsoft Corp should fire the firm’s global affairs president Lisa Monaco, who served in the administrations of past Democratic presidents.Monaco was a security aide in former president Barack Obama’s administration and served as the deputy attorney general in former president Joe Biden’s administration. She started working for Microsoft in July to lead the firm’s engagements with governments globally, according to her…