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New Delhi, Aug 25: A steep 50 per cent tariff on Indian goods entering the United States will kick in from August 27, putting several of India’s labour-intensive export sectors at risk — including shrimp, apparel, leather, and gems & jewellery. According to a U.S. notification, the new duties will apply to Indian products “entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or

Washington/Seoul, Aug 25: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he is open to meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, even as he pressed South Korea on trade and defense issues during a White House visit by President Lee Jae Myung. “I’d like to meet him this year,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I look forward to meeting Kim Jong Un at the appropriate time.” The

Mangaluru, Aug 26: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is investigating the mass burial case in Dharmasthala has intensified its probe and visited the house of activist Mahesh Shetty Thimmarody, near Ujire, on Tuesday. A team comprising SIT personnel, FSL members and complainant witness paid a visit to the house of Thimmarody. SIT officials will conduct a mahazar at Timmarody’s residence

Washington, Aug 26: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a draft notice on the implementation of additional duties on products imported from India, following the announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump to increase tariffs on Indian goods to 50%. According to the notice, the additional tariffs are being imposed to give effect to the President's Executive Order 14329 of August

Dharwad, Aug 25: A 22-year-old MTech student of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT-Dharwad died of a heart attack. The deceased has been identified as Asthitva Gupta, a native of Bihar. According to IIT sources, Asthitva suddenly collapsed while participating in NCC selection trials. He was immediately rushed to the campus clinic, where staff managed to stabilise him. He was then shifted

Mysuru: A 20-year-old married woman was gruesomely killed in Karnataka’s Mysuru district after her lover allegedly placed an explosive in her mouth and set it off following a quarrel. The victim, identified as Rakshita from Gerasanahalli village in Hunsur taluk, was found dead in a lodge in Bherya village, where she had checked in with her lover Siddaraju, a relative of hers. According to police

The Israeli military has killed at least 15 people, including four journalists serving international outlets, during back-to-back strikes against an overstretched hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. On Monday, the regime carried out an airstrike against the Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis before backing it up with another raid, when civil defense and ambulance teams had scrambled to the

Israeli jets and tanks struck parts of Gaza City on Sunday, August 24, in preparation for a major assault, as the Israeli military’s chief of staff warned officials in Tel Aviv that carrying out the order to demolish the city of 700,000 residents could take "over a year" and place additional strain on Israeli troops. According to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Sunday, Eyal Zamir

Mandya, Aug 24: C N Chinnayya, the Mandya native who shot into the spotlight as the key witness and complainant in the sensational Dharmasthala mass burial case, is now facing serious allegations from his ex-wife and villagers, who have described him as a “habitual liar” willing to do anything for money. Rathnamma, a civic worker from Nagamangala and Chinnayya’s divorced wife, went public on

Udupi, Aug 24: Police have arrested a 19-year-old man from Rajasthan for allegedly blackmailing a complainant and extorting more than ₹4.44 lakh using a morphed obscene video created after befriending him on Facebook. According to Udupi SP Hariram Shankar, the complainant was first contacted on Facebook by a woman who later initiated a video call. Within minutes of accepting the call, an obscene