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Minister Pradhan urges pvt sector to step up investment in research and innovation
NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday called on the private sector to step up investments in research and innovation, emphasising the need for greater industry participation in the sector. Inaugurating the IIT Madras...
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People’s power has prevailed; politics of good governance has triumphed: Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said people’s power prevailed and the BJP’s politics of good governance triumphed in West Bengal, while in Assam, the NDA’s win illustrated the unwavering support for the ruling alliance’s emphasis on...
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ANDAMANS SETS GUINNESS RECORD BY UNFURLING LARGEST TRICOLOUR UNDERWATER
Personnel from the Andaman and Nicobar Police, forest department, Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard, as well as scuba divers from various diving centres take part during the unfurling of the Indian Tricolour off Swaraj Dweep, formerly known as...
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Commercial LPG price hiked by nearly ₹1,000
NEW DELHI: Fuel costs for migrant workers, community kitchens, canteens, roadside dhabas and industrial users surged by over 47% on Friday as state-run oil companies raised prices of commercial liquefied petroleum gas by ₹993 per 19-kg refill and...
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Trump weighs options on Iran strikes as crude soars
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US and Iran showed little sign of breaking their impasse and agreeing to another round of peace talks, with President Donald Trump examining options for new strikes on Tehran ahead of a deadline to seek Congressional approval to...
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META FAILING TO KEEP UNDERAGE USERS OFF FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, SAYS EU
LONDON : The European Union accused Meta on Wednesday of failing to stop underage users from accessing Facebook and Instagram, in violation of the bloc’s tough digital rules that require social media sites to protect minors. The EU’s executive branch...
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UAE to leave OPEC as war upends oil market
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it will leave OPEC effective May 1, stripping the oil cartel of its third-largest producer and further weakening its leverage over global oil supplies and prices. The UAE’s decision had been rumored as a...
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PAK STILL WORKING TO BRIDGE U.S., IRAN GAPS DESPITE FAILURE OF FACE-TO-FACE TALKS
IMD issues heatwave alert for north and central India; mercury logs 46.9°C in Akola NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological across Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Department (IMD) on Sunday said Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya maximum temperatures across...
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Trump in crosshairs again as shooter targets DC function
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and officials in his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, US acting Attorney General Todd Blanche...
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AAP-heaval: 7 Rajya Sabha MPs revolt, desert Kejriwal
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was jolted on Friday after Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha announced that seven out of 10 parliamentarians from the Upper House were quitting the party and joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),...
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Trump’s ‘shoot, kill’ order sharpens Strait standoff
DUBAI: President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, he said on Thursday, a day after Iran again displayed its ability to thwart traffic through the...
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Iran attacks 3 ships in Strait day after ceasefire extended
DUBAI: Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway. The attacks came a day after US President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an...
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Clock ticks on ceasefire, Iran-US talks uncertain
ISLAMABAD: Last-minute ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran looked uncertain Tuesday as a two-week truce was set to expire and both countries warned that, without a deal, they were prepared to resume fighting. US Vice President JD Vance,...
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CEASEFIRE AT RISK AFTER U.S. SEIZES IRANIAN SHIP; TEHRAN SHUNS PEACE TALKS
DUBAI: A ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared in jeopardy on Monday after the United States said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its blockade and Tehran vowed to retaliate, refusing for now to join new peace...
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Trump says new talks, but confusion persists
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said his negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran, lifting hopes of extending a ceasefire set to expire this week even as Washington and Tehran remain locked in a standoff over the Strait of...
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Delimitation divide defeats bill to raise LS seats for women’s quota
A Constitution amendment bill to expand the size of the Lok Sabha and fasttrack 33% reservation for women failed to garner the required two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha on Friday, marking the first defeat of a government bill since the National...
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LS expansion will be fair, says govt; Oppn wants it in writing
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday attempted to convince the Opposition that the proposal to increase the Lok Sabha’s strength and fast-track 33% reservation for women would involve a proportional 50% rise in each state’s seats, thereby not hurting...
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Class 10: Trivandrum, Vijayawada top with 99.79% pass percentage; Delhi logs 97.38%
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared the Class 10 results for 2026, recording a marginal improvement of 0.04 percentage points in overall performance, with 93.70% students passing this year compared to 93.66%...
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Women’s quota: Bills seek to take LS seats up to 850 based on 2011 census
NEW DELHI: The government’s legislative push to reserve a third of the seats in Parliament and state legislative assemblies involves raising the cap on seats in the Lok Sabha from 550 to 850, with the allocation of seats to states, the reserved...
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IRAN THREATENS TO RETALIATE AGAINST GULF PORTS FOR U.S. BLOCKADE
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US military said it will begin a blockade of ships leaving Iran’s ports on Monday, and Tehran threatened to retaliate against ports of its Gulf neighbours after weekend talks on ending the war broke down, putting a ceasefire at...
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Talks fail, Trump says US will block Hormuz
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would “immediately” begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after US-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement or next diplomatic steps in...
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Iran lays down red lines ahead of talks with US in Islamabad
DUBAI/BEIRUT/CAIRO/ISLAMABAD: Iran said on Friday that Iranian assets must be unblocked and a ceasefire take hold in Lebanon before peace talks with the United States can proceed, throwing last-minute doubt over negotiations scheduled for Saturday in...
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Crucial election cycle kicks off with high voter turnout
GUWAHATI/THIRUVANTHAPURAM/ NEW DELHI: Assembly elections in Assam and Puducherry produced record voter turnouts on Thursday while Kerala recorded its highest participation in nearly four decades, as all three went to the polls in a single phase — and a...
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Conflicting claims cloud nth-hour ceasefire
Vance to lead US team to Pakistan on Saturday to hold talks on a lasting agreement with Iran Oil declines to $95 per barrel, Sensex zooms 4%, tracking a worldwide stock market surge TEHRAN: Hours after a last-minute ceasefire was announced, the United...
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‘A whole civilisation will die’: Trump’s latest threat to Iran
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump threatened Iran with civilisational destruction as the US attacked military targets on the country’s key oil export hub, ramping up pressure on Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday morning (Tehran...
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Trump threatens Tehran with night of destruction
Iran on Monday rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the war, while President Donald Trump appeared to widen his threat from civilian targets to the whole Islamic Republic and his ultimatum ticked closer. “The...
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ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS GLIMPSE MOON’S ‘GRAND CANYON’ AHEAD OF LUNAR FLYBY
HOUSTON: The Artemis astronauts have taken in sights of the Moon never before seen by human eyes, crew members reported on Sunday as their spacecraft crossed the twothirds mark on their journey to a long-anticipated lunar flyby. As the astronauts went...
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US F-15 downed, Gulf energy sites hit as talks go nowhere
WASHINGTON: Iran shot down a US fighter jet for the first time in the war and targeted more sites, including energy facilities, in Arab Gulf states even as a handful of ships transited the Strait of Hormuz by using a new route hugging the Omani...
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Trump dashes hopes of quick end to war as Iran continues Gulf strikes
DUBAI: Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states Thursday, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to strike its neighbours even as US President Donald Trump claimed in a televised address the threat from the country was nearly...
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ARTEMIS II MISSION: REACHING FOR THE MOON
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. It’s humanity’s first flight to the Moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, Nasa’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around on Wednesday (US time). Liftoff is set for 22.24 GMT (IST 3:54 am Thursday)....
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U.S. SAYS COMING DAYS IN IRAN WAR WILL BE DECISIVE, URGES TEHRAN TO MAKE A DEAL
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if it did not make a deal. Hegseth issued his warning hours after...
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IRAN TERMS U.S. PEACE PROPOSALS UNREALISTIC, TRUMP ISSUES FRESH WARNING TO TEHRAN
TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD : President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran’s energy plants and oil wells would be obliterated if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran described US peace proposals as unrealistic and fired waves of...
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Iran warns US on ground war as regional diplomats huddle
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Sunday that it will soon host talks between the US and Iran, though there was no immediate word from Washington or Tehran, and it was unclear whether the talks would be direct or indirect. “Pakistan is very happy that both...
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Israel strikes Iran N-sites after Trump extends Hormuz date
DUBAI: Iran’s nuclear facilities came under attack on Friday, state media reported, just hours after Israel threatened to “escalate and expand” its campaign against Tehran. Iran quickly threatened to retaliate and Israel claimed responsibility for the...
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14 charred to death in Andhra bus inferno
Fourteen passengers died and 27 others were injured on Thursday when the private bus they were travelling in collided with a tipper-truck, triggering a massive fire, in Markapuram district of Andhra Pradesh, police said. According to police, the...
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NASA PLANS MOON BASE, NUKE SPACECRAFT IN PROGRAMME EXPANSION
WASHINGTON: Nasa announced on Tuesday it has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20-billion base on the Moon’s surface, while also planning to send a nuclear-powered...
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Missiles hit Tehran, Tel Aviv amid uncertainty over talks
DUBAI: Airstrikes battered Iran and Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel’s Tel Aviv and sites across the Mideast on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said the US was in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war. With thousands more...
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TRUMP PUTS OFF THREAT TO TARGET IRANIAN POWER GRID FOR FIVE DAYS
TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had given orders to postpone any military strikes against Iranian power plants for five days, hours ahead of a deadline that threatened further escalation in the conflict now in...
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Dubai airport rattled, flights disrupted after drone strike
DUBAI/NEW DELHI: A drone struck a fuel tank at the Dubai International Airport early on Monday, halting operations at the aviation hub, which gradually resumed flights later in the day, before suspending landings for all foreign carriers in the...
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Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, TN to have single phase elections; 2-phase poll in West Bengal
NEW DELHI: Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry will be held on a single day on April 9, in Tamil Nadu on April 23 and in two phases in West Bengal on April 23 and 29, while votes will be counted for all polls on May 4, the Election...
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Iran allows two LPG ships to transit Hormuz to India
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Iran has allowed two Indian-flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian officials said on Friday, a development expected to ease a cooking gas crisis in India. “The vessels have been...
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Mojtaba vows to keep Hormuz shut, continue attacks on Gulf
DUBAI: Iran’s secretive new supreme leader on Thursday vowed to keep up attacks on Gulf Arab countries and use the effective closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz as leverage against the United States and Israel. It was his first public statement...
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Iran targets more merchant ships, warns of $200 oil, extended war
DUBAI: Iran said the world should be ready for oil at $200 a barrel as its forces hit merchant ships on Wednesday and the International Energy Agency recommended a massive release of strategic reserves to dampen one of the worst oil shocks since the...
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Govt invokes ESMA; gas for households, cars top priority
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday moved to ration natural gas supplies, prioritising households receiving piped gas, vehicles running on compressed natural gas (CNG), and units producing cooking gas (LPG), as the conflict in West Asia disrupts...
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BARBADOS TO AHMEDABAD: INDIA’S ERA OF UNPARALLELED DOMINANCE
India backs dialogue, prioritises safety of its nationals amid West Asia war: EAM in Parl NEW DELHI: India advocates de-escalation priority. And our national interests, and return to dialogue and diplomacy, including energy security and trade, external...
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Centre seeks report from WB as row over Prez visit escalates
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The political slugfest over President Droupadi Murmu’s West Bengal visit escalated on Sunday, with the Union home ministry seeking a report from the state government over the alleged protocol breach, Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
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As oil surges, US gives India a waiver on Russian cargos
WASHINGTON: The US has issued a 30-day sanctions waiver authorising Indian refiners to access Russian crude oil stranded at sea in a bid to stabilise global energy markets rattled by the West Asia conflict. Oil prices jumped further on Friday, with...
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Israel pounds Tehran; Gulf cities under fresh Iran fire
DUBAI/WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump claimed the right to join Iran in deciding its next leader on Thursday as the war escalated further, with US and Israeli jets hitting areas across the country and Gulf cities coming under renewed...
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US sinks Iranian frigate off Sri Lanka; at least 80 dead
NEW DELHI: A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian frigate in the waters near Sri Lanka on Wednesday, just days after the warship participated in a multi-nation exercise and international fleet review hosted by New Delhi, widening the conflict in...
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Israel steps up strikes on Tehran, Iran defiant
DUBAI: Israel stepped up airstrikes on Iranian missile launchers and factories Tuesday, and Iran retaliated against Israel and across the Gulf region, disrupting energy supplies and travel. As explosions rang out in Tehran and in Lebanon — where Israel...
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IRAN’S TOP LEADER ALI KHAMENEI KILLED; ISRAEL, IRAN LAUNCH FRESH ATTACKS
JERUSALEM: Israel launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran on Sunday, saying it aimed to dominate the skies after killing Iran’s supreme leader and leaving the Islamic Republic grappling to rebuild its leadership amid its biggest test in five...
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Court skewers CBI case against Kejriwal, others
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday cleared former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his then deputy Manish Sisodia and 21 others of any wrongdoing in planning and executing the now-repealed 2021-22 Delhi excise policy, marking a dramatic twist in...
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India, Israel elevate ties; trade deal on anvil: PM
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India and Israel have elevated their bilateral relationship to the status of a special strategic partnership, adding that the “historic decision” reflects the aspirations of the people of the two...
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BMC budget of over ₹80K cr presented
MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday presented its largest-ever annual budget, pegged at ₹80,952.56 crore, with an aggressive push on infrastructure even as the civic body returns to elected governance after four years of...
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PUTIN HAS FAILED TO BREAK UKRAINIANS: ZELENSKY
KYIV: More than a dozen senior European officials were in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday in a show of support on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine — a grim milestone in a war that has killed tens of thousands of people...
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MANIPURI FILM BOONG CLINCHES BEST CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM AWARD
LONDON: Quirky Manipuri coming-ofage comedy-drama Boong, produced by Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment, won the prestigious Bafta Award for Best Children’s & Family Film in London on Sunday. The film’s debutant director, Lakshmipriya Devi, made an...
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FOSSILS OF SPINOSAURUS, A NEW DINOSAUR SPECIES, UNEARTHED IN NIGER
Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, presented a striking profile on the Cretaceous Period landscape of Africa 95 million years ago as it hunted large fish like coelacanths. Its bony cranial crest, about 20 inches tall, resembled...
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Tariffs junked, Trump takes new route
WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime in a 6-3 ruling on Friday — and within hours, Trump said he would sign a fresh executive order imposing a 10% global tariff under Section 122 of the...
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PM frames India as key player in AI ecosystem
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday outlined an ethical, sovereign, inclusive and globally oriented vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as he pitched India as a central player in the global AI ecosystem and called for stronger...
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RS polls on Mar 16, NDA tally to go up
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday announced elections to the Rajya Sabha for 37 seats across 10 states on March 16 even as data suggested that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set to expand its presence in the...
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BREATHE, STRETCH, HEAL: YOGA BUZZ SPANS GLOBE
Astronaut Shukla says India must sustain impetus on Gaganyaan despite complexities BENGALURU: India must continue to launch Gaganyaan next year. Group pursue its ambitious human spaceflight Captain Shukla is among the four programme with sustained...
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Class 12 board exams: CBSE introduces On-Screen Marking evaluation system
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the introduction of on-screen marking (OSM) system for the evaluation of Class 12 answer books from the upcoming 2026 board examinations that would begin on February 17. The move...
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BENNETT, BOWLERS POWER ZIMBABWE TO EIGHTWICKET WIN OVER OMAN
China critic Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in jail after trial HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s most vocal China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail, ending the city’s biggest national security case which drew global...
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RSS CHIEF ASKS CITIZENS TO HELP IDENTIFY ‘INFILTRATORS’
MUMBAI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday told a packed auditorium in Worli that while exercises such as the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were helping identify infiltrators, citizens must...
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U-19 CWC: India’s young stars shine on world stage
The Indian team celebrates after winning the Under-19 World Cup in Harare, Zimbabwe on Friday. India scored 411/9 in the first innings of the final and dismissed England for 311 to win the tournament for a sixth time, the most for any country.
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