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Shooter Avani Lekhara said that she was happy to win a medal for the country.© X (Twitter) After winning the gold medal in the women’s 10m air rifle final at the Paris Paralympics, Indian shooter Avani Lekhara said that she was happy to win a medal for the country. Reigning Paralympic champion, Avani…
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A Chinese military Y9 intelligence-gathering aircraft that Japan’s defence ministry said “violated” Japanese airspace at 11:29 a.m. (0229 GMT) for around two minutes on August 26, 2024. File | Photo Credit: AFP PHOTO/JAPAN’S MINISTRY OF DEFENSE Japan’s Defence Ministry Friday (August 30, 2024) sought a record 8.5 trillion-yen (USD 59 billion) budget for the next…
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Mohamed Salah is one of the Premier League’s modern greats. The Egyptian forward recently crossed 300 goal contributions for Liverpool, in just 350 games. Now, despite being 32, Salah scores and assists in bunches each season. With Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool era coming to an end, Salah is helping guide the club under new…
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval with Sri Lankan President and presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe during a meeting in Sri Lanka on August 30, 2024. Photo: X/@IndiainSL via PTI Three weeks ahead of Sri Lanka’s crucial Presidential election National Security Adviser Ajit K. Doval, who arrived in Colombo on Thursday (August 29, 2024), met prominent Presidential aspirants, apart from…
The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the sexual assault of two four-year-old girls inside their school in Maharashtra’s Badlapur has declared two trustees of the school missing on Friday, police sources told NDTV. The crime branch and cyber police team have been searching for both the trustees after the SIT registered a case of negligence…
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TV Somanathan is a qualified chartered accountant, cost accountant and company secretary. (File) New Delhi: TV Somanathan took over as cabinet secretary on Friday following the superannuation of Rajiv Gauba, an official statement said. RajivGauba had been cabinet secretary since 2019 and completed an unprecedented five-year term. Until recently the Union finance secretary, TV Somanathan…
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The agreements will also enable collaborative research to evaluate capabilities and risks of AI models. AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic have signed deals with the United States government for research, testing and evaluation of their artificial intelligence models, the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute said on Thursday. The first-of-their-kind agreements come at a time when…
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GDP: Growth in Asia’s third-largest economy had been well above 7 per cent during previous quarters. India’s gross domestic product slowed to a quarter low of 6.7 per cent in April-June this fiscal against 8.2 per cent in the year-ago period, mainly due to poor showing by the farm sector, shows government data. Growth in Asia’s…
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Steel and cement production also gathered momentum, rising at a three-month high rate of 7.2% and a four-month peak of 5.5%, respectively. File. | Photo Credit: K. Ananthan Output from India’s eight core sectors grew 6.1% in July, rebounding from a blip in June when growth had slid to a five-month low of 5.1%, as…
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Tata Motors, HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra and ITC were among the laggards. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty marched higher to scale fresh lifetime closing peaks on Friday (August 30, 2024), tracking a largely firm trend in global markets and renewed foreign fund inflows. Buying in index…
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