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New Delhi: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday said the Vande Bharat Sleeper trains will be launched soon as the second train is likely to be completed by the middle of next month, while the first train is ready for use after having undergone the required tests and trial runs. The two trains have to be launched together to ensure regular services on an overnight journey. The first train has cleared all the tests and trial runs and is currently at Delhi’s Shakur Basti Coaching Depot, officials said. Briefing the media, Vaishnaw said that the second train is being manufactured…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Vice President Kamala Harris detailed her running mate Tim Walz’s debate performance in her new book and recounted a showdown with then-Sen. JD Vance, which ultimately left her disappointed. Harris writes in her new book, “107 Days,” that she needed the Minnesota governor to be the “closer” at the October 1, 2024, debate given that she was not going to have another opportunity to debate Trump. But during the debate, she turned to her husband in frustration.”When Tim fell for it and started nodding and smiling at J.D.’s fake bipartisanship, I moaned…

The Home Office has lost its appeal against a high court ruling granting an Eritrean asylum seeker a temporary block on being deported to France under the new “one in, one out” scheme.In a highly unusual move, three appeal court judges rejected the home secretary’s application for permission to appeal against a high court ruling granting the man 14 days to gather further evidence in support of his trafficking claim without hearing arguments from the other side.The ruling was made after judges heard arguments from the home secretary’s lawyers but not from lawyers representing the Eritrean asylum seeker.The Eritrean man,…

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New Delhi: The Trump administration has proposed a major change to how H-1B visas are given out. Instead of using a random lottery, visas would be offered first to jobs that require higher skills and pay higher wages. The H-1B visa is widely used by technology companies to hire foreign workers. This proposal, announced on Tuesday, is President Trump’s latest effort to change the H-1B program, which critics say takes jobs from Americans. Earlier, the White House also introduced a USD 100,000 fee on new H-1B applications, effective September 21. The government later clarified the fee applies only to new…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with top congressional Democrats on Tuesday over “unserious and ridiculous demands” as the deadline to fund the government fast approaches.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., were set to meet with Trump on Thursday to discuss a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown before the Sept. 30. deadline.Lawmakers are still away from Washington, D.C., this week to observe the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Senate is expected to return on Sept. 29. Meanwhile, the House is…

Mysterious drones that forced the closure of a major European airport were part of a “serious attack,” officials said Tuesday, hours after the latest unsettling incident over the continent’s skies.As U.S. allies weigh a tougher response to suspected Russian incursions, NATO leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York condemned the Kremlin for a spate of “escalatory” incidents in recent weeks and vowed to defend itself.Authorities did not immediately assign blame for the two to three large drones that shut Copenhagen Airport — Scandinavia’s largest — Monday night. But police said a hybrid attack could not be…

Wes Streeting has rejected Donald Trump’s claims of a link between taking paracetamol in pregnancy and autism, urging mothers-to-be to ignore the US president’s remarks.The health secretary challenged Trump’s statements, which medical experts have stressed are not based on evidence, as part of a drive to reassure mothers-to-be in the UK.“I’ve just got to be really clear about this: there is no evidence to link the use of paracetamol by pregnant women to autism in their children. None,” Streeting said on ITV’s Lorraine.“In fact a major study was done back in 2024 in Sweden, involving 2.4 million children, and it…

New Delhi: The Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI) and Star Health and Allied Insurance Company on Sunday announced that cashless services will resume at AHPI member hospitals from October 10. In a joint statement, both organisations said they will work to resolve all remaining issues — including tariff revisions — by October 31, 2025. The agreement follows weeks of negotiations after AHPI had earlier issued an advisory urging its members to suspend cashless facilities from September 22 in protest over pricing and other concerns. With the resolution, AHPI has revoked that advisory and confirmed efforts are underway to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump will highlight the “return of American strength” in his second administration during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, while delivering “blunt” and “tough talk” about the “failures of globalism,” a White House official told Fox News Digital.The president is scheduled to deliver his first address of his second administration at the UN General Assembly in New York City Tuesday just before 10 a.m. Trump will address the UN General Assembly next week.  (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images:Jose Luis Magana/AP)TRUMP ORDERS ‘LETHAL KINETIC STRIKE’ ON ALLEGED DRUG TRAFFICKING…