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Indian twenty rupee currency notes are displayed at a roadside currency exchange stall in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The rupee traded in a narrow range and appreciated 2 paise to 83.49 against the U.S. dollar in early trade on July 11, as a positive trend in domestic equities supported the local unit, while…
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Stock prices are displayed on a digital screen at the facade of the Bombay Stock Exchange building, in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: PTI Equity benchmark indices rebounded in early trade on July 11 amid a rally in global markets and continuous foreign fund inflows. Buying in IT stocks also added to the positive trend in…
Representational image of U.S. President Joe Biden | Photo Credit: Reuters The pressure and chaos swirling since U.S. President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance is causing cracks in the White House that until now had been marked by discipline and loyalty. For three-plus years, the Biden administration has been mostly a restrained and staid operation,…
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Moving closer to Russia, China is becoming increasingly hostile to NATO. Warsaw: China is staging army drills with Belarus this week at NATO’s eastern border, in a sign of escalating tensions between Beijing and the US-led defence alliance. The joint “antiterrorist” exercises on Russian ally Belarus’s soil near the Polish border come as NATO leaders…
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Rohit Sharma’s family with Rahul Dravid© X (Twitter) Gautam Gambhir‘s appointment as Team India’s head coach concluded Rahul Dravid‘s tenure in charge of the Indian men’s cricket team. Dravid led the Indian team to triumph in T20 World Cup 2024 after disappointments in the 2021 T20 World Cup and the 2023 ODI World…
Representational Image New Delhi: Tech giant Apple has issued a fresh warning to iPhone users in at least 98 countries, including in India, about a potential new mercenary spyware attack like ‘Pegasus’. According to the Apple warning, it has detected that “you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely…
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Salva Kiir Gregorio Borgia. | Photo Credit: AP South Sudan peace talks that almost reached completion faced a stumbling block with opposition groups demanding a newly passed Bill allowing the detention of people without an arrest warrant scratched out in order to sign a proposed agreement. Kenya has been hosting high-level meetings since May between…
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China’s President Xi Jinping with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit in Astana on July 3. | Photo Credit: AFP China is seeking to strengthen its leadership of an expanding bloc of nations it sees as a potential counterweight to the world order led by the United States. Leaders of the Shanghai…
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They were arrested on charges of disturbing public peace. Varanasi: Two youth, Ved Prakash Yadav and Aman Yadav Katta, were arrested for imitating a scene from the popular OTT series ‘Mirzapur’ for a social media reel, the police said. According to the police, the two have been arrested over a viral video showing Ved taking…
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Coded messages, landline phones, and pagers: following the killing of senior commanders in targeted Israeli airstrikes, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, has been using some low-tech strategies to try to evade its foe’s sophisticated surveillance technology, informed sources said. The sides have been trading fire since Hezbollah’s Palestinian ally in the Gaza Strip, Hamas,…
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