Taiwan says U.S. arms sales to island are unchanged, but a $14 billion package remains on hold
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Tripura: Village Committee polls record 81.21% turnout, re-poll ordered in three seats
Reported by Mrinal Banik Agartala: Tripuras Village Committee elections under the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council recorded a final voter turnout of 81.21 per cent, while the State Election Commission has ordered re-polling in three seats across two Village Committees on October 3. State Election Commissioner P K Chakravarti announced the re-polling at a [] The post Tripura: Village Committee polls record 81.21% turnout, re-poll ordered in three seats appeared first on NorthEast Now .
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President Donald Trump launched America.gov on Tuesday, unveiling what the administration has billed as a new AI -powered gateway to federal information and services that aims to streamline Americans interactions with the government. The website , which Trump introduced at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, features a chatbot-style interface that allows users to ask questions about government programs, benefits and services. The administration described America.gov as a front door to federal resources, consolidating information that is currently spread across dozens of agency websites. Its not just simply a website. Its a restoration of Americas founding promise, and its a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond, Trump said at the rollout. The Trump Administration launches https://t.co/0QsU6cNcJ7 , a new AI government website that combines all government websites in one. It aims to make government-related errands an easy process. More on @Newsweek pic.twitter.com/dLNdCjNPdS Leonardo Feldman (@Leonardofeldman) September 29, 2026 The homepage states: America.gov uses AI to get simple answers only from official government sources. Its free to use, never includes ads, and keeps your privacy protected. The platform is free to use, requires no login and contains no advertising. Joe Gebbia, U.S. chief design officer, said America.gov is powered by Googles Gemini and Elon Musk s Grok. Trump was joined by Musk , administration officials and tech leaders for the announcement. Newsweek has reached out to the White House via email on Tuesday morning for comment. What Trumps America.Gov Executive Order Does Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that directs federal agencies to integrate their online services with America.gov, which the administration envisions as a single digital portal for accessing government information and completing transactions. The White House said the platform will eventually allow users to perform tasks such as renewing passports and enrolling in Medicare, while Login.gov, the federal governments existing sign-in system, will be incorporated into the service. The order applies to public-facing federal services used by more than 100,000 people annually, although IRS tax-filing services and certain national security-related functions are excluded. President Donald Trump speaks during an event to mark the launch of the America.gov website on September 29, 2026, in Washington. Who Is Joe Gebbia? The launch of America.gov also highlights the growing influence of Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder whom Trump tapped in 2025 to lead the newly created National Design Studio. Established under the administrations America by Design initiative, the office is responsible for modernizing federal websites and digital services. The chatbot-based America.gov portal represents one of the most visible examples of Gebbias effort to apply Silicon Valley-style design principles to the federal government. This is a breaking news article. Updates to follow. Newsweeks reporters and editors used Martyn, our AI assistant, to produce this story. Learn more about Martyn here . Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Gabe Whisnant and Dave Siminoff . Related Articles Will Trump's Ohio Visit Rescue Jon Husted? What Polling Data Shows Sarah Huckabee Sanders Fell Into a Welfare Trap Map Shows Donald Trump's Approval Rating in Midterm Campaign Stops Start your unlimited Newsweek trial This article originally appeared on NEWSWEEK at https://www.newsweek.com/trump-launches-america-gov-ai-government-website-12501100
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Digital Desk | Mumbai, Sep 29 (IANS) Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar, who has helmed the recently released film Daayra starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Kareena Kapoor Khan, has spoken up on her relationship with chaos. The filmmaker spoke with IANS during the promotions of Daayra in the Andheri West area of Mumbai, and said that she embraces chaos as an artiste. She told IANS, Chaos has to be your best friend because there is no film set without chaos. But, the good part is that we know how to overcome it as a team. And that's all that matters. She also spoke about the actors she has directed, and watching them navigating the emotions long after they have given the take. She said, I have actually experienced actors who, if they've had to break down in a scene and they have broken down and I have called cut, they have not stopped crying. They have continued to break down till they have relieved their emotional cycle completely. It has happened in several of my films. And at that point, even though I'm completely objective and unemotional as a filmmaker on set, I've only wanted to go and hold my actor because then the human being in you takes over. I don't think any cinema, whether it is based on true life or it is fiction, you can't go through it without investing emotionally. You can't. It will show up in the director's work, it will show up in the actor's work, she added. Meanwhile, Daayra is inspired by true events, and is a crime thriller. The film stars Kareena in a complex, morally conflicted role that explores justice, power, and systemic grey zones. The project blends Kareenas inclination toward layered, content-driven characters with Meghna Gulzars restrained, issue-oriented storytelling style. The film is currently playing in cinemas.
The newly announced US legislation, the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, targeting Russia is intended to create leverage to help bring the war in Ukraine to an end, US lawmakers said on Tuesday during their visit to Dharamsala, while also stressing the importance of continuing to strengthen the relationship between Washington and New Delhi. US Congressman James Gallagher, a member of the visiting US Congressional delegation to India, said that the legislation was directed at Russia and that the measures were among the pressures being brought to bear with the objective of ending the war in Ukraine. Asked about India's purchase of Russian oil, Gallagher said he had no particular message for India on the issue. We want to ultimately bring that war to an end with Ukraine, and those are some of the different pressures that are brought to bear under the law, Gallagher said. US Congressional delegation is visiting different parts of India as part of their visit a...
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Digital Desk | Bhopal, Sep 29 (IANS) Four more historical sites from Madhya Pradesh have been included in UNESCOs tentative list of World Heritage sites, raising the states tally to 19. The newly added sites are the Bagh Caves in Dhar, Ginnaurgarh Fort in the Ratapani region, the Bateshwar-Padavali-Kakramath temple complex in Morena, and the Udayagiri Caves in Vidisha. Inclusion in the tentative list is the first formal step toward possible inscription on the World Heritage List. Sites on the list undergo detailed evaluation and other procedures before a final decision is taken. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav congratulated the people of Madhya Pradesh on the development. On his X handle, he said the addition offers an opportunity to further the global recognition of the states rich historical heritage and stressed the need for collective efforts to conserve and promote these treasures. Fifteen historical and natural sites from Madhya Pradesh were already on UNESCOs tentative list. These include Gwalior Fort, Bhojeshwar Mahadev Temple, the rock art sites of the Chambal Valley, Khuni Bhandara, the Gond monuments of Ramnagar, the Dhamnar group, Bhedaghat-Lametaghat, Satpura Tiger Reserve, the historic ensemble of Orchha, and the monuments of Mandu, among others. The Bagh Caves form a group of nine Buddhist rock-cut caves developed between the 4th and 6th centuries. The murals in Cave No. 4 are especially notable, offering valuable insights into the social life and culture of that period. Ginnaurgarh Fort, located in the Ratapani area, exemplifies Gond architecture and traditional water management systems. Its natural defences provided by the hilly terrain, along with fortifications and stepwells, are among its key features. The Bateshwar-Padavali-Kakramath complex in Morena displays the varied architectural styles of temples built between the 8th and 11th centuries. The Bateshwar temple cluster, the intricate carvings at Padavali, and the distinctive design of Kakramath together make the site historically significant. The Udayagiri Caves in Vidisha were an important centre of religious and political expression during the Gupta period. The site consists of 20 rock-cut caves, with the celebrated Varaha statue standing out as a major highlight. The latest additions strengthen Madhya Pradeshs position as a major repository of Indias cultural and architectural legacy on the global stage.
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Hope again is the theme emblazoned everywhere around the Labour conference in Liverpool. Andy Burnham was on home soil to address his first conference as the party leader and prime minister. Yet the novelty factor is somewhat dimmed by this being the fourth year out of five to see a different prime minister make their first autumn keynote address. After Liz Truss in 2022, Rishi Sunak in 2023, Keir Starmer in 2024 was the only one of that trio to get a second go, but not a third. Can Burnham break that cycle of disillusion and disconnection ? The leaders simplest task this week has been to give his Labour Party a renewed sense of confidence. Most Labour members have transferred their hopes to the new leader with little difficulty, though former ministers found Burnhams post-transition reshuffle bruising. Burnham has secured the Labour government a second chance to make a first impression with the public. His simple method is often to note what did not work for Starmer and to try the opposite, instead. Starmer emphasised his difficult inheritance to manage expectations about how quickly change can be delivered. Burnham wants to talk about what the government can do, rather than the constraints and limits. But how far is this mainly a change of style, or of substance, too? That question could not be fully answered this week but perhaps Burnham must begin, primarily, with a change of style. Burnhams mandate in a parliamentary democracy is the 2024 Labour manifesto. He has been emphatic that he has no plans for a snap election even if the Westminster media loves nothing more than speculating about election timing, offering a sugar rush of pure politics, when policy analysis can feel too much like eating boring vegetables. Burnhams bigger ambition is to restore optimism, confidence and hope in the country as a whole to give Britain back its self-belief. Yet his argument is that the causes of disconnection run deep: a story of wrong turns over four decades, where political power became too centralised in Westminster; and economic power too centralised by Thatcherism; with public frustration leading to a gamble on Brexit. Burnham has spoken about giving the public breathing space on the everyday cost of living. Early measures on bus fares and energy bills also give the government breathing space to make bigger arguments for more public control over the essentials, and spreading power beyond Westminster to places forgotten for too long. But chancellor John Healey faces as tight a budget as his predecessor, Rachel Reeves. And a mid-term successor remains on probation until he secures his own mandate. Burnham acknowledges that his biggest ambitions a new social care system; a deeper relationship with the European Union and constitutional change, such as electoral reform - would require a new mandate, at the next election, to go ahead. Keeping Shabana Mahmood as home secretary was a continuity choice. Her uncompromising tough speech last year emphasised that recent migrants who wanted to stay in this country needed to earn their right to do so. The content and tone divided Labour members: Mahmood had entered the conference as the frontrunner in a hypothetical post-Starmer leadership contest, yet her sweeping asylum and settlement reforms made her a non-runner. The home secretary pitched a similar foundational argument, but rebalanced her tone and content, now emphasising control and compassion, fairness to those genuinely fleeing persecution and the communities they join. So the government will introduce new safe routes with a particular focus on Afghan women and a new community sponsorship scheme, though numbers will start in the hundreds, rather than thousands. Her settlement plans are being rethought after criticism they are unfair to care workers and other migrants. A visible lack of control does undermine pragmatic public permission for immigration and narrows support for refugee protection. But Mahmood offers a mythologised past, when she suggests that the Britain of the 1970s was mostly more welcoming to her parents' generation than we can be today. Immigration was no higher than emigration then but public attitudes were much tougher and inter-ethnic contact less familiar. Since 2024, Labour has cut net migration levels dramatically without shifting the public politics of the issue. Labour would leave a vacuum on tackling racism if cutting immigration was its main idea about how to do that. Hope again pitches a nostalgic way to talk about the future. Burnham wants to appropriate the take back control call which underpinned Brexit and to repurpose it for progressive ends. His slogan leaves open when that moment of hope was the 2024 landslide, the 2012 opening Olympic ceremony before Brexit, the New Labour era of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, or the pre-Thatcher era of Harold Wilson or Clement Attlee which this brings back from the left evokes when seeking to put Britains future back on track.
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Digital Desk | New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) India on Tuesday rejected the unwarranted references to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir made by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his address at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) recently, asserting that no external party has any locus standi on the issue. You would have seen that these remarks you refer to were made by the Turkish President. India rejects the unwarranted references to the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir made by the President of Turkey during his UNGA address. This is a matter, as you would understand, pertaining to India's territorial integrity and sovereignty, and no external party has any locus standi on this issue, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during a bi-weekly media briefing in New Delhi. The Turkish President has raised the issue at the General Assembly in the past as well, drawing a similar response from New Delhi. Last year, India had made its well-known stance on Kashmir clear once again, under which there is no scope for any third-party role or mediation. Our statement on Kashmir is clear. Everyone is aware of our position on Kashmir over the past few years, Jaiswal said in September 2025 while responding to a question on Erdogan making remarks on Kashmir at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Last week, India rejected the references made about the country in the Joint Communique of the OIC's so-called Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir, terming them unwarranted and factually incorrect and said that the grouping has no locus standi to pronounce on its internal matters. The MEA said that the entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and inalienable part of India, and o amount of repetition of politically motivated propaganda can change this reality. India categorically rejects the unwarranted and factually incorrect references to India in the Joint Communique of the so-called OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir. The OIC has no locus standi to pronounce on matters that are strictly internal to India, it had said.
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Digital Desk | Kochi, Sep 29 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Tuesday quashed the state government's decision to dissolve the Kerala Police Officers Association (KPOA), holding that the government had no power to restructure recognised police associations in a manner that interfered with the constitutional rights of their members. A bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas held that the freedom to form associations guaranteed under Article 19(1)(c) of the Constitution also includes the freedom to continue an association and preserve its composition. The freedom to form an association and freedom to continue the association are both facets of Article 19(1)(c) of the Constitution, he said. The ruling came on petitions challenging a government order issued on July 27, 2026, restructuring the associations representing different ranks of police personnel. The order abolished the KPOA and retained the Kerala Police Association (KPA) and Kerala Police Senior Officers Association (KPSOA) in a reorganised form. The government had also ordered that the assets of the KPOA, including its bank accounts, documents, deposits, investments, rights and liabilities, be distributed between the two remaining associations in a 60:40 ratio. Ad hoc committees were also appointed to handle administrative functions, with elections to the newly constituted associations scheduled to be held by September 30. The High Court found that the government's action was contrary to the position taken by the state police chief earlier this year. In a proposal dated January 17, the state police chief had recommended retaining all three associations with only limited changes to their composition. The proposal did not call for the abolition of any of the associations. The court noted that the recognition granted to the police associations had not been withdrawn either by the state police chief or the government. It held that the government could not therefore interfere with the structure of the recognised associations. The court also found that the government had altered the membership structure of the KPA contrary to its bye-laws and interfered with the membership and assets of the KPOA without the consent of its members. The government order was consequently set aside along with the subsequent orders constituting the ad hoc committees. The judgment effectively restores the position of the police associations that existed before the government's restructuring order.
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