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Thursday, 28 Aug, 2025
President Donald Trump held his seventh Cabinet Meeting at the White House this week. (Photo courtesy: The White House)

>> US President Donald Trump has announced that he would open the door to 600,000 Chinese students entering the country to study at American colleges.

>> Democrats on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee slammed President Donald Trump for unfairly singling out India with steep 50 per cent tariffs, even as China - one of the largest buyers of Russian oil - faces no such penalties.

>> A Utah district judge has ruled that the state must redraw its congressional districts because the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature erred when it overruled a ballot measure passed by voters that sought to rein in partisan gerrymandering, NBC News reported.

>> India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), working closely with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has dismantled a transnational tech-support cybercrime syndicate that defrauded US nationals of nearly USD 40 million (approx. Rs 350 crore) through elaborate tech-support scams.

>> President Donald Trump has warned that countries imposing digital taxes on American technology companies would face "additional tariffs" on their exports to the United States unless those measures are withdrawn.