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AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet knew to expect fireworks when he saw Brazilian Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina paddle into one of the day’s biggest waves at one of the world’s heaviest surf breaks. What he didn’t know was that his picture of Medina kicking out of the wave after a ride that earned a…
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The reality of Kamala Harris’s record on migration is far more complicated (File) Washington: Vice President Kamala Harris, tasked to deal with the root causes of migration from Central America as illegal border crossings were rising in 2021, immediately ran into the enormity of the mission. The region is riddled with corrupt government officials, the…
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Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez in action during Paris Olympics 2024© AFP Egyptian fencer Nada Hafez revealed that she competed at the Paris Olympics while seven months pregnant after she crashed out in the last 16 of the women’s sabre individual event. The 26-year-old, who was competing in her third Olympics, won her first…
File image of Mohsin Naqvi© X (Twitter) Pakistan Cricket Board’s incumbent chairman Mohsin Naqvi is set to become the next president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) later this year as per its rotation policy. The matter of the president’s post was discussed at a recent ACC meeting with Naqvi in line to…
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Washington: The US defence secretary said on Tuesday he did not believe a fight was inevitable between Hezbollah and Israel though he remained concerned about the potential for escalation after a deadly rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Tensions have worsened since Saturday when the rocket killed 12 children and teenagers at a football…
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The rains damaged nearly 900 homes and caused 1,345 road collapse (File) Beijing, China: Seven people died and three were missing after heavy rain and flooding hit central China’s Hunan province, state media reported Tuesday. China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains battering swathes of the country and many regions enduring…
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Last year, BJP’s legislative team moved a similar no-confidence motion against the Speaker. Kolkata: The BJP on Thursday filed a no-confidence motion against Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay in the West Bengal Assembly. The proposal signed by as many as 50 BJP legislators was handed over to the Assembly secretary, Sukumar Roy in the afternoon. A team…
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Using innovative strategies that astronomers use to identify the shape of distant, dim galaxies, Adejumoke Owolabi, a master’s student at the University of Hull, and her mentor Kevin Pimbblet, a professor of astrophysics and director of the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling at the University of Hull, have described a…
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Akhilesh Yadav and Anurag Thakur were locked in a heated exchange in Lok Sabha today New Delhi: The debate on Budget 2024 in Lok Sabha today saw an explosive exchange between Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and BJP MP Anurag Thakur over the Agnipath scheme. Mr Yadav, MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj, said this is…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with her deputy Pankaj Chaudhary at the Parliament as she arrives to present the Union Budget 2024-25, in New Delhi on July 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI The government has garnered ₹98,681 crore from long term capital gains tax on listed equities in 2022-23, a 15% growth over the…
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