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After meeting President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for a private dinner at the White House on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived for a crucial one-on-one bilateral discussion.

PM Modi received a ceremonial welcome at the White House. Subsequently, PM Modi and President Biden entered the White House for a one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office before a high-level bilateral dialogue, alongside their respective delegations.

The United States has made a shocking revelation that there was an overestimation of $6.2 billion in military aid provided to Ukraine due to an accounting error. During a press briefing, Sabrina Singh, Deputy Spokesperson for the US Secretary of Defence, revealed that the Pentagon had conducted a recalculation of military aid provided to Ukraine and discovered an overestimation of $6.2 billion. This erroneous calculation included a $3.6 billion error in the current fiscal year and a $2.6 billion error in the previous fiscal year, which ended on September 30th.

Rescuers are racing against time to find a submersible that took tourists to the site of the Titanic shipwreck. Titan went missing less than two hours after it began diving on Sunday. It has a range of 96 hours, out of which 70 hours of oxygen remain

Here are 5 points on who is on board the missing submersible:

The submersible has a capacity to take five members to see the shipwreck. One of the passengers on board has been identified as British businessman Hamish Harding. The 58-year-old is an aviator, a space tourist, and chairman of Dubai-based Action Aviation. Mr Harding had said in an Instagram post on Sunday that he was proud to join the OceanGate Expedition for their RMS TITANIC Mission as a mission specialist going down to the Titanic.

A submersible used to take tourists to see the wreckage of the Titanic has gone missing, according to a report in the BBC. A search and rescue mission has been launched in the area to track the submersible, the outlet further said. It is not immediately clear is people were on board the vessel when it went missing. These submersibles are used to take tourists to see the wreck of the Titanic, which sank on April 15, 1912, leaving more than 1,500 dead.

The site where the Titanic sank is 3,800 metres down at the bottom of the Atlantic, 600 kilometres of the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in China on Sunday on the highest-level trip by a US official in nearly five years, with the rival powers looking to lower the temperature after soaring tensions.

Neither side expects breakthroughs during Blinken's two-day visit, with the world's two largest economies at odds on an array of issues from trade to technology to regional security.