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Portugal’s new centre-right Prime Minister Luis Montenegro unveiled his cabinet. File | Photo Credit: AFP Portugal’s new centre-right Prime Minister Luis Montenegro unveiled his cabinet Thursday, after his centre-right coalition barely managed to emerge top in a badly fractured parliament. The 51-year-old lawyer was last week asked to form a government after the March 10…
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Jailed gangster-turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari died due to cardiac arrest on Thursday. Banda, UP: After the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari due to cardiac arrest, Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari, claimed that his father was given poison in the food and said they would move to the judiciary. “We have full faith in it,” he…
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Dhara Gujjar scored a magnificent 140 to help East Zone put up a strong 385 for 8 against North East Zone as women’s red-ball cricket returned in India’s domestic calendar after six years in Pune on March 28. East Zone skipper Deepti Sharma opted to bat in the three-day Senior Women Inter-Zonal Multi-Day Trophy and…
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Researchers have explained a new approach they developed to estimate climate velocities in mountainous regions. File | Photo Credit: AP Species living in 17 mountains around the world may be facing the risk of extinction due to the rapid rate at which the planet is warming, new research published in the journal Nature has found. Researchers…
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Thailand ordered a close watch on livestock on Thursday after an outbreak of anthrax in neighbouring Laos, where more than 50 suspected human cases have been reported. Anthrax, which spreads through bacteria in soil, commonly infects grazing livestock and wild animals but can infect humans and be deadly in some cases. Thai Prime Minister Srettha…
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Police personnel escort Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara (second right) to prison at Colombo high court on March 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A Sri Lankan court on March 28 sentenced an influential Buddhist monk to four years’ hard labour for fanning sectarian hatred against the island’s minority Muslim population. The Colombo High Court found…
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A bus plunged off a bridge into a ravine and caught fire on Thursday in South Africa, killing 45 of the 46 people on board, the transport ministry said. An eight-year-old child was the sole survivor and had been taken to hospital with serious injuries. The vehicle had been heading from neighbouring Botswana to Moria…
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Russia has launched hundreds of criminal cases against individuals who oppose Ukraine war. Moscow: A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a journalist to two years in prison for denouncing Moscow’s full-scale military offensive on Ukraine, as police in Moscow detained five other reporters over a 24-hour period. Russia has made on-the-ground reporting increasingly dangerous and…
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A 22-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in a stabbing rampage that killed 4 people in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday. Winnebago County State’s Attorney J. Hanley said during a news conference that Christian Soto will be in court Thursday afternoon to hear the charges and for a judge to determine…
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A passenger bus plunged off a bridge into a ravine in South Africa on Thursday. (Representational) Johannesburg: A passenger bus plunged off a bridge into a ravine in South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, the transport ministry said. One person was also seriously injured in the crash of the vehicle heading from…
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