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India’s new jersey for T20 World Cup 2024 triggers a meme fest.© X (Twitter) India’s quest for a first ICC title in 11 years will kick-start from June 1 as the T20 World Cup 2024 will begin in the United States and West Indies. For the showpiece event, BCCI unveiled India’s jersey on Monday. The jersey…
Ottawa: India’s High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma on Tuesday said that the origin of the friction between New Delhi and Ottawa is the “lack of understanding of India’s concern” over a “decades-old issue (Khalistan) that has re-emerged” on foreign soil. Speaking at an event at the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations, he added…
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Catalan separatist leader and candidate of Junts per Catalunya – JxCat political party, Carles Puigdemont (R) raises his fist during a campaign rally in the French southeastern town of Argeles-sur-Mer on May 4, 2024 ahead of the regional election in the Spanish northeastern region of Catalonia. | Photo Credit: AFP “Puigdemont, president!” chanted an excited…
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Among those arrested was also a contractual translator in the Russian Defence Ministry (Representational) New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday said it has arrested four people, including a contractual translator in the Russian Defence Ministry, for trafficking Indian nationals to the Russia-Ukraine war zone. The central agency said that Arun and…
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Police and paramilitary personnel stand guard at the polling station during the third phase of Lok Sabha Polls, in Etah on May 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI Three Independent MLAs withdraw support to BJP government in Haryana Three Independent MLAs supporting the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) government in Haryana on May 7 announced the…
Kim Ki Nam died on Tuesday at the age of 94, official KCNA news agency said. (Representational) Seoul: Kim Ki Nam, one of the longest-serving North Korean officials who served all three generations of its leaders cementing their political legitimacy and heading the propaganda apparatus for the dynastic state, has died, official media said on…
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Palestinians inspect the destruction following overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 6, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. | Photo Credit: AFP As well as killing more than 34,000 people and causing catastrophic levels of hunger and injury, the seven-month war between Israel…
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Polling for 25 out of the total 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat were held in a single phase on Tuesday. Ahmedabad: Around a thousand voters from across three villages in Gujarat boycotted voting in the Lok Sabha polls on Tuesday, while those in as many other villages partially stayed away from the process over…
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The mercury is soaring across India, with many places reporting unusually high temperature readings. It may not be possible to link each heat event to climate change, but we know climate change is bringing such anomalies to more areas, and with greater intensity. We also know climate change is disproportionately affecting society’s most vulnerable members,…
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All the institutions which strengthen democracy are being weakened, Priyanka Gandhi said. Raebareli: Launching a sharp attack on the Central government, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said that under the reign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “British Raj-like conditions” are prevailing in the country, with the government policies only benefiting billionaires. “British Raj-like conditions are prevalent…