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The volcano sent a tower of ash more than five kilometres (3.1 miles) into the sky Manado, Indonesia: Indonesia’s remote Mount Ruang volcano erupted several times on Tuesday, authorities said, issuing the highest level of alert and ordering thousands of people to evacuate due to the threat of a tsunami from debris sliding into the…
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File photo of KL Rahul© AFP The India squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 is here and the 15-member squad was filled with surprise exclusions. KL Rahul was the biggest name to miss out completely as the selectors went for Sanju Samson and Rishabh Pant as the specialist wicket-keeper options. In the recent…
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The Rupee had settled seven paise lower at 83.45 against the U.S. dollar on April 29. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Rupee recovered four paise to 83.41 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on April 29, tracking foreign capital inflows and a strengthening greenback against major crosses overseal. According to forex analysts, the domestic currency…
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File picture of a multicolour 10 Polish Zloty coin marking Poland entering the European Union is presented by the National Bank of Poland in 2004. The Finance Minister in Poland’s pro-European Union government says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency. | Photo Credit: AP Twenty years after joining the European…
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Pandalaneni Sivaprasad. Katari Jagadish. Anantha Lakshmi. Syed Anwar. Challa Eswari. These not-so familiar names are going to get a lot of spotlight. They are the working class people who have been named the star campaigners by the Jagan Reddy Mohan party for the elections, possibly a first anywhere. “Amid a popular trend of enlisting film…
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File photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on April 30 to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war. Mr. Netanyahu said Israel would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas’ battalions…
Arvind Kejriwal has challenged in Supreme Court his arrest by the ED New Delhi: The Supreme Court today threw a question to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on why Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested just before the general elections began. Mr Kejriwal had challenged his arrest in the Delhi liquor policy case. Explaining the…
The more gender equal a society is, the more similar men and women will be, adopting more similar interests, personality traits and behavioural patterns. Or so many people seem to believe. Statements like this might sound like truisms, but science shows reality may be more complicated. Several studies have found that some psychological sex differences, such as those…
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Representational image only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu “The Sri Lankan Cabinet has decided to implement the renovation of the Kankesanthurai Port in the Northern Province with India agreeing to grant the entire cost of the project,” a statement said on April 30. Situated in the northern region of Sri Lanka, the Kankesanthurai Port or…
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Image for Representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t a one-off glitch, but it happened all the time: imagine…
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