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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet US President Donald Trump, address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), engage in 20 bilateral meetings, participate in Climate Change summit among his other engagements during his US visit from September 21-27, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday. PM Modi will leave for the US late on Friday night. In a media briefing, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make a visit to the US from the late afternoon of 21 September until the forenoon of 27 September. And the two cities on his itinerary are Houston in…

Sri Lanka spinner Akila Dananjaya has been banned from bowling in international cricket for 12 months due to an illegal bowling action. Dananjaya’s suspension is a result of the ICC’s automatic penalty for bowlers who have twice failed an assessment inside a two-year period. Dananjaya was assessed after he was reported for a suspect action for the second time in 10 months, following the Galle Test against New Zealand last month. He subsequently underwent an independent assessment on August 29 in Chennai, which revealed his illegal bowling action. : Akila Dananjaya: Resilience, guile, and a bit of elbow grease, by…

India’s twin World Cup-winning all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, who memorably hit England bowler Stuart Broad for six 6s in an over during the World T20 exactly 12 years ago, shared a childhood photo of him with a bat to mark the occasion. In the photo, Yuvraj can be seen trying to hit a ball with his tiny bat indoors. Referring to the image, Yuvraj wrote on Facebook that he never thought that he will ever hit 6 maximums in a row while adding cheekily that maybe it was due to him having started practicing early. The left-hander aptly captioned the picture:…

Islamabad sources made a statement that Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said there is no chance of talks with India and Pakistan on Kashmir until the ‘curfew’ is lifted. Khan said, “There is no chance of talks with India on Kashmir until the curfew is lifted”. Meanwhile, India has maintained that there is no curfew in Jammu and Kashmir, which became a Union Territory after the abrogation of Article 370. Furthermore, even most of the countries have backed India, stating that New Delhi’s decision to make changes in Jammu and Kashmir is part of its internal affairs. Khan, who…

Washington sources reported that US President Donald Trump has said that he carries cash in his back pocket as he loves giving tips at the hotels. Meanwhile, his remarks came after one USD 20 bill was seen dangling precariously from Trump’s back pocket as he prepared to depart Moffett Field in Mountain View, California on Wednesday. Furthermore, Trump, in fact, took out a large wad of cash out of the right-back pocket of his pants and held it up in front of reporters traveling with him abroad Air Force One. Trump said “I haven’t used it in a long time,”…

Benjamin Netanyahu’s main challenger Benny Gantz on Thursday presented himself as the next prime minister, hours after the embattled Israeli premier urged the Blue and White leader to join him in forming a unity government to avoid a third election. With nearly 97 percent of the votes counted on Thursday, Gantz’s Blue and White party won 33 seats while Netanyahu’s Likud secured 31 seats in Israel’s 120-member Parliament. Gantz, 60, said he intends to form and lead a “broad, liberal, unity government.” “After an election that was forced on Israel, (people) voted and made a clear choice. The people voted for…

At least 15 people were killed and 70 others injured in a truck blast claimed by the Taliban militant group in Afghanistan’s Zabul province on Thursday, authorities said. The attack occurred at around 6 a.m. in the city of Qalat, capital of insecure Zabul province, the spokesperson of the governor of the region, Gul Islam Seyal, told Efe news while confirming the casualties. Seyal said the “powerful bombing badly destroyed the hospital building and several nearby houses”. Most of the victims were “hospital health workers, patients, and civilians from nearby houses”, he said, adding that the number of victims could…

We are all aware of the catastrophic asteroid impact off Mexico’s coast that doomed the dinosaur dynasty 66 million years ago. This earth-shaking astronomical event forever changed the history of life on Earth. So did the ice age that occurred 400 million years ago when a gigantic collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter opened new avenues for marine biodiversity on our home planet. But these are not the only extra-terrestrial events that may have affected the evolution of life on Earth. Scientists have offered valuable insight about an event that set in rolling, the most significant evolutionary…

German authorities on Thursday were looking into how Airbus employees came to see confidential military documents, the latest in a series of scandals to hit the aerospace giant. Munich prosecutors “are investigating 17 named suspects and further thus far unknown perpetrators over revealing, or incitement to reveal, trade and company secrets,” the investigators told. Airbus said in a statement Wednesday that it had reported itself to the authorities. “Some of our employees had documents that they shouldn’t have had,” an Airbus source said. The confidential documents relate to two planned military procurement projects. In cooperation with prosecutors, the defense ministry…

As Houston sets the stage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most awaited speech in ‘Howdy Modi’ event, some anti-Modi and separatist groups are planning to protest making the event a flop show. The protests are being planned by some minority communities from India. In the name of human rights, the protests are actually planned by separatist groups, demanding independent Kashmir and independent Punjab. Interestingly, for the first time, Muslim and Sikh groups have come together to protest against alleged discrimination against non-Hindus in India when Modi visits Houston to attend the event. The protesting organizers have arranged buses for the…