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Both India and America pulled out all the stops in ensuring that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington was a success, despite the naysayers, says Kenneth Tiven

The facts swirling around the failure of the mid-sized Silicon Valley Bank in California, USA, resemble a who-done-it mystery with an action movie-style rescue included to save its depositors.

All 50 states in the USA have opened their polling places in the presidential election. Most East coast time zone states close the polls by 8PM EST, or 03:30 IST. So initial election results will probably be available around then, indicating the direction of the election.