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The UN chief says he values China’s support, where he is attending the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.Published On 30 Aug 202530 Aug 2025Chinese President Xi Jinping has told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that China supports the global organisation playing a central role in international affairs and that it upholds “true multilateralism”, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.Xi shared this message with Guterres on Saturday as the UN chief visited China to attend the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.China will remain a reliable partner of the UN, President Xi added.For his part, Guterres told Xi: “The support of…

Eighteen out of 19 matches in the upcoming Asia Cup will start half an hour later than originally scheduled as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reels from a heat wave. The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Saturday that the matches will now begin at 6.30pm local time (8pm IST). This includes all of India’s matches, with the only scheduled day game to be between UAE and Oman, which is to start at 4pm local time at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Temperatures have surged to record highs at the start of August and some parts of the…

For people living with chronic pain, long-term relief has often seemed out of reach. Now, researchers have developed a brain implant that can detect pain signals in real time and respond with targeted deep-brain stimulation (DBS), offering significant, lasting improvements. Chronic pain affects millions worldwide and often resists conventional treatments because it stems from subtle changes in brain circuitry that are difficult to identify. DBS, which delivers electrical pulses to the brain, has shown promise but with mixed results—largely because it has been applied using a one-size-fits-all approach. Prasad Shirvalkar and his team at the University of California set out…

new video loaded: How Russia Is Distracting Citizens From the WarBy Ivan Nechepurenko, Katrin Bennhold, Christina Thornell, Melanie Bencosme and Stephanie Swart•August 30, 2025Moscow is hosting a big summer festival as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. Katrin Bennhold, a senior international reporter for The New York Times, talks with Ivan Nechepurenko, a Times reporter in Russia, about the spectacle and what it says about Russian public opinion more than three and a half years into the war.Recent episodes in Behind the ReportingShow more videos from Behind the Reporting

Published on: Aug 30, 2025 01:47 pm IST JKSSB JE 2025 exam has been postponed. The official notice is given here.  Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board has postponed JKSSB JE 2025 exam. The examination for Junior Engineer (Civil) has been postponed which was scheduled to be held on September 7, 2025. Candidates can check the official notice on the official website of JKSSB at jkssb.nic.in. JKSSB JE 2025 exam postponed, notice available at jkssb.nic.in The exam has been postponed due to prevailing weather conditions. The new date of exam will be notified seperately in due course of time. The…

Nearly four out of ten school students in Delhi take private coaching, much higher than the all-India average of one in four, according to the National Sample Survey’s Comprehensive Modular Survey on Education. Four in ten Delhi school students take private tuition, spend twice the national average: Survey Delhi ranked sixth highest in the country on the proportion of students taking coaching. At the top was Tripura, where 78.6 per cent of students reported taking private coaching, followed by West Bengal and Odisha. The report underlined that Delhi students’ reliance on tuition begins as early as the primary stage and…

Standardisation is aimed at creating guidelines for Yoga practice, training, and application. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the World Health Organisation (WHO), in collaboration with India, is working to bring in standardisation in Yoga training practices to ensure that Yoga serves as a preventive, promotive, and rehabilitative intervention, said Kashinath Samagandi, Director of the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY), in an interaction with The Hindu.MDNIY, an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Ayush, is the nodal centre for the programme. Standardisation is aimed at creating guidelines for Yoga practice, training, and application. The…

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NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with sports journalist Michele Steele about a big opening game in college football, a momentous NFL transfer and the superstar engagement that made headlines this week.

A Traveler’s Tale: Fashion designer Haider Ackermann on Churchill, Manitoba—“In November of 2023, I went to Churchill, Manitoba, in the northern reaches of Canada. Canada Goose had approached me to become their creative director, and I wanted to learn more about the company and their partnership with Polar Bears International, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Churchill. I was immediately seduced by the silence and the immense landscape. There’s something beautiful about it: You feel like a very small person, you’re made vulnerable, and you realize you don’t mean that much in the world. It was the start of winter…