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Team India received a rousing welcome on their arrival in New Delhi on Thursday morning. After the T20 World Cup 2024 triumph, Rohit Sharma and co finally reached India through a special charted flight, arranged by the BCCI. Upon their arrival, fans gathered in large numbers, holding placards to welcome the World champions….
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Bags, slippers and other items belonging to the victims are still lying around at Hathras stampede site Hathras (UP): Two days after the killer stampede at a religious gathering in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras left 123 people dead, police are yet to make any arrests. Self-styled godman Narayana Sakar Hari, who addressed the ‘satsang’, is still…
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New Delhi: A petition has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking to issue direction to the Bihar Government to conduct the highest level structural audit of all existing and under construction bridges in the state and to demolish or retrofit weak structure depending of feasibility in the wake of bridge collapses in the state….
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Until the mid-2010s, banks used to lend massive loans to big industries. When these businesses failed, their loans turned sour. Such bad loans stayed hidden for sometime. In 2015, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) carried out a review, following which skeletons tumbled out of the closet. The share of bad loans reached as high…
Holograms, which show different images and colours depending on the angle at which they are viewed, are seen on the new Japanese 5,000 yen banknote as the new note is displayed at a currency museum of the Bank of Japan, on the day the new notes of 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen went…
Japan’s digitisation effort has run into numerous snags. Tokyo: Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their…
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An Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.AFPAHMAD GHARABLI | Photo Credit: AFP Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, an anti-settlement watchdog group said on Wednesday, a move that could further worsen already soaring tensions linked to the ongoing Gaza war. Peace Now said…
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been Portugal’s main man for nearly two decades but the veteran forward is a long way from peak performance before Friday’s Euro 2024 quarter-final showdown with France. Now 39 years old and playing his club football in Saudi Arabia, Ronaldo is showing his age in what must surely be his…
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Members of the Arctic Challenge team practise in simulated circumstances at a training centre in Dubai. | Photo Credit: AFP At an indoor pool in Dubai, three rowers battle artificial rain and simulated waves as they train for an Arctic voyage intended to highlight the perils of marine pollution. From the United Arab Emirates, notorious…
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Host nation Germany face Spain in Friday’s Euro 2024 quarter final in Stuttgart riding a wave of belief not seen in the proud football nation for almost a decade. After a series of poor performances at major tournaments, the most decorated nation in European football history are again confident of a deep run….
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