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Covering a wide spectrum of Indian sectors, the first Union Budget of Modi 3.0 focused on MSMEs, employment, skilling, youth, and the middle class. Yet, the Budget as such has failed to address several concerns of the real estate sector, including direct incentives to boost the affordable housing sector. It was widely anticipated that affordable…
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on the phone with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as the Obamas endorse Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate in this still image taken from a video released on July 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Former President Barack Obama and former first lady…
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England vs West Indies Live Score 3rd Test Day 1© AFP England vs West Indies Live Updates 3rd Test Day 1: England take on West Indies in the third and final Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham, hoping to pull off a series sweep. The hosts lead the series 2-0 after comprehensive wins at…
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Obama remains one of the most popular figures in the Democratic party Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle endorsed Kamala Harris’ bid for president on Friday in a roughly one-minute long video that captured a private phone call between the couple and the current vice president. “We called to say Michelle and…
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Israeli military vehicles manoeuvre near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Israel, on July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Australia, New Zealand and Canada on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and asked Israel to respond to a United Nations court which last week ruled its occupation…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday flagged the “sorry state” of a detention centre in Assam that house individuals whose citizenship is unclear and foreigners waiting to be deported. The court said it was troubled by the lack of water and sanitation facilities, and non-functioning toilets. A bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice…
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Paris: Paris is decked up to host a grand opening ceremony later today for the 2024 Olympics, but went into a tizzy after the rail network was crippled by “malicious acts”. Here are the top updates on France’s rail network disruption: Trains to and from Paris have been disrupted by what the government called a…
Probing the gender of a King Cobra at Pilikula Biological Park, in Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Pilikula Biological Park in Mangaluru, one of the major zoos in India, has taken up tagging of select species of wild animals under captivity by implanting microchips. At present, microchipping of King Cobras selected for captive breeding…
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About 15 two-wheelers also took part in the rally New Delhi: A gangster in Maharashtra was recently released from jail but was sent back to prison after his celebration rally video went viral on social media. Nasik’s gangster Harshad Patankar was jailed under the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug Offenders and…
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Writing in the Times Literary Supplement in October 1921, English poet and critic Thomas Stearns Eliot remembered John Donne thus: “Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think, but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.” Eliot’s…
