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Semi-Final 1 of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, 2024 will be played between South Africa and Afghanistan (SA vs AFG). The match will be played at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday (IST). In the last match played by South Africa, they beat West Indies by three…
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is on trial on spying charges in Russia. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich went on trial in Russia on June 26 on spying charges, which he denies. Here is a short guide to his case. Who is Evan Gershkovich? Mr. Gershkovich is a 32-year-old American…
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, on June 26 2024. | Photo Credit: AP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department…
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Denmark will impose cattle farmers with a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, claiming it will be the first country to do so, in a move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from each of their cows. File | Photo Credit: AP Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their…
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South Africa will take on Afghanistan in the Semi-Final 1 of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, 2024 at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday. South Africa comes into this match with momentum, having defeated West Indies by three wickets (DLS method). Tabraiz Shamsi was the standout performer…
An Indian-origin former manager of a Post Office in England wrongly jailed while pregnant has rejected the apology of an engineer whose evidence helped convict her over faulty accounting software. Seema Misra, now 47, had her conviction quashed in April 2021 as the Court of Appeal ruled that she had been wrongly imprisoned over 12…
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A video of ornaments stolen from bodies has now spread on social media Hardoi (UP): A chilling racket of stealing jewellery from corpses coming in for post-mortem has been busted in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi. Those involved in the racket, it is alleged, would steal gold and silver ornaments from corpses and replace them with artificial…
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Rohit Sharma in action© AFP India stormed into the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2024 after a 24-run victory over Australia at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in St. Lucia on Monday. The win saw Indian skipper Rohit Sharma play a starring role as he scored a 41-ball 92 to set up…
On Tuesday, the Rupee appreciated four paise and settled at 83.43 against the greenback. The Rupee depreciated 17 paise against the U.S. dollar and settled at 83.60 (provisional) on June 26, weighed down by the strength of the American currency in the overseas market and elevated crude oil prices. “However, a firm trend in domestic…
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Among the 30 Sensex companies, Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel, UltraTech Cement, Sun Pharma, Adani Ports, Axis Bank, NTPC and Bajaj Finance were the biggest gainers. | Photo Credit: Reuters Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended at their fresh all-time high levels on June 26 in tandem with a rally in Asian peers and…
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