The costliest gift outgoing US President Joe Biden got was a commemorative photo album worth $7,100 from South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol.
Apart from reporting on water stress in India, global media also predicts a digital payments boom in the country, with WhatsApp given free run by National Payments Corporation of India.
Jill Biden's symptoms described as mild. President Biden is expected to take regular tests this week before his trip to India for G20 Summit on 8-10 Sept, says a White House statement.
About 400 guests will dine on White House South Lawn, with Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam likely to attend.
Column by Joseph Epstein, an emeritus professor, says that incoming US First Lady Jill Biden's 'doctor' title sounded 'fraudulent'. Biden has a doctorate in education.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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