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EAM Jaishankar holds bilateral meet with his Cyprus counterpart in New York

Prior to this, the EAM Minister met the Foreign Minister of Uganda, Gen JeJe Odongo and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and held bilateral talks

1 killed, many hurt as bus carrying children crashes on New York highway

A charter bus carrying schoolchildren crashed on a New York highway and went down an embankment Thursday, killing one person and hurting multiple other people, police said. The wreck happened on Interstate 84 in the town of Wawayanda, about 45 miles northwest of New York City, state police said. The bus was carrying students from Long Island to a band camp in Pennsylvania, according to a message sent to several local news outlets by the Farmingdale Union Free School District. Video taken from news helicopters showed the bus lying on its side in trees and shrubs yards off the road in the median between the westbound and eastbound sides of the highway. Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus told WNBC-TV that there were around 45 people on the bus, mostly children. He said at least five people were badly hurt. The crash happened around 1:20 pm. News footage showed emergency vehicles on the highway, which was closed in both directions.

Trump's last-minute legal challenge could disrupt New York fraud trial

A last-minute legal challenge by Donald Trump 's lawyers could disrupt a trial scheduled for next month in the New York attorney general's business fraud lawsuit against the former president and his company. A state appeals court judge on Thursday ordered a potential postponement of the non-jury trial, scheduled to start October 2, after Trump's lawyers filed a lawsuit accusing the trial judge, Arthur Engoron, of repeatedly abusing his authority. Justice David Friedman, a judge on the state's intermediate appellate court, granted an interim stay of the trial and ordered the full appeals court to consider the lawsuit on an expedited basis. The court indicated it would issue a decision the week of September 25, meaning the trial could still start on schedule depending on how it rules. Among the issues raised by Trump's lawyers were Engoron's terse refusal to grant their recent request for a three-week trial delay, which he ruled as completely without merit, and lingering uncertainty

Quad foreign ministers likely to meet at UNGA next month in New York

The foreign ministers of the Quad countries are likely to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month with a focus on expanding overall cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The Quad, comprising India, the US, Japan and Australia, has been focusing on practical cooperation to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China's increasing military muscle-flexing in the region. The Quad foreign ministers are expected to deliberate on ways to further boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific under the framework of the coalition, the people cited above said. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi last held talks in India in March. In the meeting, they reaffirmed the grouping's commitment for a free and open Indo-Pacific and said it strongly supports the rule of law, ...

China Evergrande Group files for bankruptcy in New York amid debt crisis

The move protects it from creditors in the US while it works on a restructuring deal elsewhere

NYC bans use of TikTok on city-owned phones, joining federal govt

New York City has directed its employees to delete TikTok from their city-issued phones, joining the federal government and more than half of US states in banning the use of the Chinese-owned social media app on government-owned devices. While social media is great at connecting New Yorkers with one another and the city, we have to ensure we are always using these platforms in a secure manner," Jonah Allon, a spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams, said in a statement Thursday. Allon said the city's top information security officials determined that TikTok posed a security threat to the city's technical networks and directed the app's removal from city-owned devices within 30 days. The federal government ordered employees to delete TikTok from government-issued cellphones earlier this year amid concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, could give user data to the Chinese government. More than half of U.S. states have enacted similar bans. New York state has prohibited the use of TikT

New York bans TikTok on government devices citing 'security concerns'

New York City on Wednesday banned TikTok on government-owned devices citing 'security concerns' thus joining the list of more than two dozen states that have restricted access to the short video app

Pig kidney works in donated body, enables animal-human transplants

Surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal. The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one - and it's not over. Researchers are set to track the kidney's performance for a second month. Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it's looking like it is, Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone's transplant institute, told The Associated Press. It looks even better than a human kidney, Montgomery said on July 14 as he replaced a deceased man's own kidneys with a single kidney from a genetically modified pig and watched it immediately start producing ...

United Airlines to boost frequency of Delhi-New York flight to twice a day

American carrier United Airlines on Tuesday announced increasing the frequency of its flight services between Delhi and New York/Newark to twice daily, from once at present, starting October 29 this year. In line with the existing year-round service, the additional flight will also be operated with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, United Airlines said in a statement. With the addition of the second flight, United will offer more flights from India to the US than any other American carrier during the winter season and is the only US airline to operate the 787 Dreamliner from India, it said. "India continues to be an integral part of United's global network and we are delighted to announce this additional daily flight from New Delhi, operated with 787 Dreamliner aircraft," said Harvinder Singh, Director, Middle East and India at United Airlines. United's 257-seater Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft consists of 48 all-aisle-access PolarisSM business suites, 21 premium PlusSM, 39 econo

Pummelled by hailstorm, New York-bound Delta flight makes emergency landing

A Delta flight heading to New York from Milan made an emergency landing soon after takeoff. There were 215 passengers onboard the plane with eight flight attendants and three pilots

New York City agrees to pay $13 mn to 2020 racial injustice protesters

New York City has agreed to pay more than USD 13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020. If approved by a judge, the settlement, which was filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, would be among the most expensive pay-outs ever awarded in a lawsuit over mass arrests, experts said. The lawsuit focused on 18 of the many protests that erupted in New York City in the week following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. With certain exceptions, people arrested or subjected to force by NYPD officers at those events will each be eligible for USD 9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs. The agreement, one of several stemming from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, allows the city to avoid a trial that could be both expensive and politically fraught. It comes as

'Life threatening' flooding overwhelms New York roadways, killing 1 person

Heavy rain sparked extreme flooding in New York's Hudson Valley that killed at least one person, swamped roadways and forced road closures on Sunday night. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings across parts of southeastern New York, describing it as life threatening. One person died due to the flooding, Steven M Neuhaus, the Orange County executive, told The New York Times. State Route 9W was flooded, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway became so drenched that parts of it was closed, the New York State Police said in a statement. The police asked the public to avoid the parkway. Cedar Pond Brook in Stony Point was flowing over the road and into private properties, according to WABC. Rockland County Executive Ed Day instructed residents to remain indoors in a safe location until the heavy rainfall ended.

Unwanted space: World's empty office buildings have become a debt time bomb

The number of transactions is plunging-and when deals do happen, the price declines are stark

Day 1 of PM Modi's US trip: From EVs to space; here's what was discussed

Apart from Elon Musk, PM Modi met Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Robert Thurman, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, among others on the first day of his US trip

Apple illegally interrogated staff about union, labour board judge rules

In a Tuesday decision, a National Labor Relations Board judge wrote that Apple violated the rights of employees at its World Trade Center store in New York City

Together we stand stronger: PM Modi as he leaves for US on 1st state visit

PM Modi will commence his visit in New York, where he will celebrate the International Day of Yoga on June 21 at the headquarters of the United Nations

CoinEx accepts New York ban, to pay $1.8 million to resolve lawsuit

The payment includes $1.17 million of refunds to 4,691 investors, which may be reduced if they withdraw crypto assets during a specified 90-day period, plus a $626,000 fine

At least 13 shot, stabbed or hit by cars at street party in US' Syracuse

At least 13 people were shot, stabbed or hit by fleeing cars at a street party in the Syracuse area of New York early Sunday (local time), New York Post reported citing police and a local report said

New York sets record for air pollution, Governor says it's 'emergency'

In many places, the sky took on an eery orange glow prompting an NWS unit in New York State to tweet: This is not Mars

Smoke from Canada wildfires deteriorates NY air quality; worse than Delhi's

The air quality of New York city has deteriorated as smoke from the Canadian wildfires poured into the US East Coast and Midwest, with data showing that the pollution level in the metropolitan city was highest among significant cities worldwide, even surpassing New Delhi. Situation was such that the picturesque and renowned skyline of New York City became invisible on Wednesday behind a hazy veil of smoke from the Canadian wildfires flowing into the region. According to IQAir, New York City had the highest levels of air pollution among significant cities worldwide on Wednesday morning, surpassing even New Delhi. Recently in a global air quality report, India was ranked eighth on the list, with Chad, Iraq, Pakistan, Bahrain, and Bangladesh being the five most polluted countries in 2022. The weather forecasters expect hazy weather to continue in New York through the rest of the week. AccuWeather forecasters expect very unhealthy" levels to continue through the rest of the week. Th