Month: April 2024

Taliban Government Joins Climate Change Talks For First Time

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Taliban Government Joins Climate Change Talks For First Time

Climate change plays a key role in the livelihoods of Afghans. (Representational) Kabul: The Taliban government has entered its first talks with the United Nations, donors and non-governmental organisations over the impact of climate change in Afghanistan, organisers said Wednesday. After four decades of war, Afghanistan ranks as one of the countries least prepared to…

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Pinarayi Vijayan Named In Scams, Centre Not Acting: Priyanka Gandhi

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Pinarayi Vijayan Named In Scams, Centre Not Acting: Priyanka Gandhi

The Kerala chief minister had also recalled “an old name of Rahul Gandhi” to attack the Congress leader. Wayanad: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra launched a scathing attack against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday for continuously targeting Rahul Gandhi during the just-concluded campaign for the April 26 Lok Sabha polls. Ms Gandhi also…

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Russia, Ukraine To Exchange Nearly 50 Displaced Children After Rare Talks

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Russia, Ukraine To Exchange Nearly 50 Displaced Children After Rare Talks

Ukraine believes Russia has illegally taken more than 19,000 of its children Doha: Russia and Ukraine have agreed in a Qatari-brokered deal to exchange almost 50 children displaced by Moscow’s invasion, the Kremlin’s children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova announced in Doha Wednesday. Moscow has been accused of forcibly taking Ukrainian children into Russian territory during…

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What Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee Said

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What Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee Said

Abhishek Banerjee alleged that BJP has “unleashed” ED, CBI and IT Department on TMC (File) Kolkata: Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that the future of the INDIA bloc depends, to a large extent, on the performance of his party in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections. Addressing an election rally…

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Iraq Executes 11 People Convicted Of “Terrorism”: Report

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Iraq Executes 11 People Convicted Of “Terrorism”: Report

Iraq has been criticised for trials denounced by rights groups as hasty. (Representational) Nasiriyah: Iraqi authorities have executed at least 11 people convicted of “terrorism” this week, security and health sources said Wednesday, with rights group Amnesty International condemning an “alarming lack of transparency”. Under Iraqi law, terrorism and murder offences are punishable by death,…

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Can Private Property Be Taken Over By Authorities For Common Good? Supreme Court Says…

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Can Private Property Be Taken Over By Authorities For Common Good? Supreme Court Says…

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said we regard property as something of holding in trust New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Constitution intended to bring about a “sense of social transformation” and it would be “dangerous” to say that the private property of an individual cannot be regarded as material resources of community…

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“BJP Reading Manifesto Written By Ghosts?” P Chidambaram On Mangalsutra Jibe

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“BJP Reading Manifesto Written By Ghosts?” P Chidambaram On Mangalsutra Jibe

The former finance minister also termed the comments made by BJP leaders “completely imaginary”. New Delhi: Hitting back at the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over their claims that his party intends to redistribute wealth and that even women’s ‘mangalsutras’ were under threat, Congress leader P Chidambaram has challenged them to show even one…

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Mamata Banerjee’s Big Message After 26,000 Teachers Lose Jobs

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Mamata Banerjee’s Big Message After 26,000 Teachers Lose Jobs

Mamata Banerjee said, “They have bought the High Court. They have bought the CBI”. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s response to the Calcutta High Court order scrapping the job of 26,000 teachers, was a resounding election message. “Not one vote for the BJP or CPM or Congress, not from teachers, not from any government worker,”…

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IPL 2024 Points Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap: Delhi Capitals Dent Mumbai Indians’ Playoff Chances Further, Go Level With Chennai Super Kings

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IPL 2024 Points Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap: Delhi Capitals Dent Mumbai Indians’ Playoff Chances Further, Go Level With Chennai Super Kings

Rishabh Pant virtually sealed his spot as India’s first choice wicketkeeper for the T20 World Cup with a belligerent unbeaten half-century in Delhi Capitals’ narrow four-run win over Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday. Skipper Pant and Axar Patel forged a blistering stand of 113 runs off 68…

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US Senate May Set Up Court Showdown Over TikTok’s Free Speech Protections

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US Senate May Set Up Court Showdown Over TikTok’s Free Speech Protections

TikTok is due to respond to the Montana appeal by April 29. (Representational) The U.S. Senate set up a likely court showdown over the scope of TikTok’s free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution when it approved a bill on Tuesday to ban the social media platform from app stores unless its Chinese owner sells…

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