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International knockout football, there’s nothing like it. Stature holds no weight here, it disintegrates and fades away into oblivion. Tactics take the backseat. Pulverising passion, oceans of emotion, gut-wrenching nerves, the hopes of an entire nation — these are the driving forces in the playoff rounds. David, Goliath, Butch, Sundance, it doesn’t matter. It is…
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Ershad Sultan was arrested on June 30. Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday acquitted a person who was arrested on the charge of criticising a state minister on social media. A single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha directed that Ershad Sultan be released immediately. The matter related to a meeting of Chief Minister Mamata…
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Naomi Osaka only returned to the tour in January after giving birth to daughter Shai last year.© AFP Naomi Osaka was sent crashing out of Wimbledon in the second round on Wednesday by America’s Emma Navarro, who allowed the Japanese superstar just five games in a one-sided contest. Osaka, playing her first Wimbledon…
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Rajesh Agrawal, former Deputy Mayor of London for Business, is the Labour Party’s candidate for Leicester East, a constituency in the East Midlands. Mr. Agrawal, who is fluent in Hindi, was born in Madhya Pradesh and grew up in India. Leicester is home to many British Indians as well as recent immigrants from India, and…
Polls overwhelmingly predict that Labour will win its first general election since 2005. London: Britain’s political leaders made a final frantic push for votes Wednesday on the last day of an election campaign expected to return a Labour government after 14 years of Conservative rule. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insisted he was still “fighting hard”…
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The minister said rules apply equally to everyone. New Delhi: A day after the BJP submitted a notice against Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha over alleged inaccuracies in his speech, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said any member trying to mislead the House will not get away easily and the “rules…
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Bhole Baba, whose original name is Suraj Pal, blamed anti-social animals for the tragedy (File) Thousands of people were pressed into a small area, and then people began falling like nine pins, getting crushed under the weight of the crowd. Post-mortem reports of some of the victims of the Hathras tragedy – in which 121…
It is not yet clear how the infection occurred (Representational) Kolkata: At least 25 patients started experiencing complications following cataract surgeries at a West Bengal government-run hospital in Kolkata’s Metiabruz, prompting the authorities to stop such operations temporarily, an official said on Wednesday. The cataract surgeries were performed on them last Friday and Saturday, he…
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As the last full day of campaigning dawned, the U.K.’s Conservative Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, faced with the prospect of a crushing defeat at the hands of the opposition Labour Party , said he was still “fighting hard for every vote”. Earlier in the day, one of his Cabinet colleagues, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel…
Manipur Congress MP Bimol Akoijam called for taking the Manipur crisis “more seriously” Imphal/New Delhi: Ten minutes before midnight on Monday, Manipur groups and channels on social media buzzed with messages with a link to Sansad TV’s YouTube channel – “oja wa ngag doure (professor is about to speak)”. They had been expecting Manipur Congress…
