Thane (PTI): A man arrested by the Telangana police in a suicide abetment case has escaped from custody by jumping off a train near Kalyan railway station in Maharashtra's Thane district, officials said on Thursday.

The incident took place on Monday evening while the accused was being transported by train from Surat in Gujarat, where he had been apprehended, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said, adding that efforts were on to trace him.

"The escapee was in a relationship with a woman in Telangana. They had frequent quarrels, which led her to depression and she eventually committed suicide," Karjat GRP's senior police inspector Tanaji Khade said.

 Following the woman's death, the Telangana police registered a case of abetment to suicide against the accused, who then fled the state and was tracked to Surat.

He was arrested and was being taken back by train when, under the pretext of using the toilet, he went to the door and jumped off the train as it departed Kalyan station, the official said.

The Karjat GRP have launched a search for the accused and registered a fresh case against him under Section 262 (resistance or obstruction by a person to their lawful apprehension) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, he said.

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Beijing (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump had an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning the two countries and the world, and reached a series of new common understandings, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Friday.

Xi and Trump, who is on a three-day visit to China, met twice on Thursday and discussed a range of bilateral and global issues.

Trump is due to leave on Friday after a luncheon meeting with Xi.

Summing up the outcomes of Trump’s visit to Beijing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the two presidents had an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning the two countries and the world and reached a series of new common understandings.

They agreed on a new vision of building a constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability to provide strategic guidance for bilateral relations over the next three years and beyond.

The two presidents also agreed to promote the steady, sound and sustainable development of China-US relations, and bring more peace, prosperity and progress to the world, said a statement by the ministry’s spokesperson.

Trump visited China at the invitation of Xi.

The two presidents are meeting in person again for the first time since their Busan meeting last October, and it is the first visit to China by a US president in nine years, the statement said.

On Thursday, President Xi held a welcome ceremony and a banquet for Trump, held talks and visited the Temple of Heaven with him.