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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during the Republican National Convention Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on July 25 introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate which proposes to treat India on par with its allies like Japan, Israel, Korea and NATO allies regarding…
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during a rally in his home town of Middletown, Ohio, Monday, July 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance is learning the hard way the internet doesn’t just love cats but also childless cat ladies, as comments resurfaced in which…
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Telangana Government has allocated ₹22,301 crore for the irrigation sector in the 2024-25 State budget presented to the Assembly on Thursday, with focus on completing the pending projects and proper maintenance of the completed ones. The thrust of the budgetary allocation was outlined by Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka, who also handles the portfolios…
A tumble in the heavyweight stocks that have powered markets higher this year is highlighting Wall Street’s vulnerability to any weakness in the Big Tech trade and causing concerns that over-stretched stocks are in for more turbulence. Disappointing quarterly reports from Tesla and Google-parent Alphabet sparked a crushing market selloff on Wednesday, with the tech-heavy…
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A Taiwanese startup aims to become the first foreign firm to launch a rocket from Japan by early next year, part of a plan industry advocates say will aid Tokyo’s ambitions of becoming a space hub in Asia. The planned suborbital launch by TiSpace has faced regulatory hurdles and delays amid questions over whether Japan…
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams waves to well wishers as she leaves the Operations and Checkout building before heading to Space Launch Complex 41 to board the Boeing’s Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket for a mission to the International Space Station at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Cape…
Chief of Sri Lanka’s election commission R.M.A.L. Rathnayake addresses the media. File | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on September 21 that will likely be a test of confidence in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis. The date was announced in a decree the independent…
Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav during a practice session at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, in Pallekele, Thursday, July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Newly-appointed Indian T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav says he has enjoyed being a leader on field despite not dawning the captain’s hat, adding that he leant the tricks of the trade from…
After three of Earth’s hottest days ever measured, the United Nations (UN) called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” “If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all increasingly feeling the heat,” United…
Typhoon Gaemi hits Chinese seaboard, widespread flooding feared Singapore: Climate change is driving changes in rainfall patterns across the world, scientists said in a paper published on Friday, which could also be intensifying typhoons and other tropical storms. Taiwan, the Philippines and then China were lashed by the year’s most powerful typhoon this week, with…
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