Month: April 2024

Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur

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Argentine palaeontologist Sebastian Rozadilla holds a fossil of the Chakisaurus nekul, an newly-discovered herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago in the Patagonia region, at the Buenos Aires’ Natural Science museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Palaeontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous…

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Science

India’s T20 World Cup 2024 Squad: Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya Snubbed By Sanjay Manjrekar. Full List

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Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar made some surprising additions and omissions as he named his 15-member squad for India’s T20 World Cup 2024 campaign. With the deadline for the team selection only a few days away, fans and experts have been bold in sharing their opinions on the subject. After the likes of Irfan Pathan…

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Indian-origin student in U.S. arrested, barred from varsity for taking part in anti-Israel protests on campus

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Achinthya Sivalingan is a student at the Princeton University. Photo: cpree.princeton.edu An Indian-origin female student studying at the prestigious Princeton University is among two students who have been arrested and barred from the campus for staging pro-Palestine protests on the campus. Achinthya Sivalingan, born in Coimbatore and raised in Columbus, has been barred from the…

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World

FirstCry set to withdraw $500 million IPO papers after regulatory scrutiny

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FirstCry parent BrainBees filed papers with SEBI last December for an IPO that would have been one of the country’s biggest this year.  | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Retailer FirstCry is set to withdraw its papers for an up to $500 million Initial Public Offering (IPO) as early as next week, after markets regulator raised…

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Business

Trump says pro-Palestinian University protests far worse than Charlottesville

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Pro-Palestinian activists confront police officers during a demonstration at Emory University on April 25, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Photo Credit: AFP The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, brought torch-bearing white nationalists together from all over the country. It culminated in an avowed white supremacist driving a car into a crowd of counter-protesters,…

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World

Third man detained in bribery case involving Russia’s Deputy Defence Minister

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“A third man has been detained in a bribery case involving one of Russia’s most senior defence officials,” Moscow’s court service said on April 25. It said businessman Alexander Fomin is suspected of paying bribes to Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, who was detained on April 24, as well as Mr. Ivanov’s associate, Sergei Borodin….

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New York Students Admit They Have No Idea What They Are Protesting

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Students at universities across the US are staging encampments to protest the war in Gaza. A video circulating online shows two anti-Israel protesters at New York University struggling to explain the purpose of the demonstrations. The clip, posted on X by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, shows a young woman at an NYU protest…

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U.S. expected to provide $6 billion to fund long-term weapons contracts for Ukraine, officials say

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In this image released by the U.S. Department of Defense, German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1, fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation, in Chania, Greece, on Nov. 8, 2017. U.S. officials say the Pentagon is expected to announce that it will provide about $6 billion…

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Supreme Court In Key Ruling

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The two-judge bench delivered concurrent but separate judgments. New Delhi: The Supreme Court today rejected petitions seeking complete verification of votes cast through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). Here are the Supreme Court’s top quotes: Verification of votes is not a fundamental right. On completion of the symbol loading…

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