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The Telangana High Court has issued notices to the Central and the State governments in a PIL petition over the non-implementation of Government Order (GO) Ms no. 1 of 1994 comprising rules governing and recognising unaided private schools. A Bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J. Sreenivas Rao heard the plea filed by…
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Taliban government restrictions on women have slashed their participation in the workforce (file). Kabul, Afghanistan: Despite three years of improved security following the end of the Taliban’s insurgency, Afghanistan’s economy remains stagnant and its population is in the grips of a worsening humanitarian crisis. A third of Afghanistan’s roughly 40 million people live on bread…
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The scam involves fraudsters posing as group members and requesting a one-time passcode. Online scam experts have issued a warning for WhatsApp users to be on guard after a spate of reports of a new scam tricking people using the group messaging feature. With more than two billion monthly active users, WhatsApp is now a…
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A file photo of the ‘Bangla camp’ at Sindhanur in Raichur district. | Photo Credit: After living in India for decades, five Hindu Bangladeshis residing in the ‘Bangla camp’ at Sindhanur in Raichur district, about 400 km from Bengaluru, were naturalised as citizens last week — the first in Karnataka after the Citizenship Amendment Act,…
A damaged car at the landslide site in Wayanad following torrential downpours. | Photo Credit: National Disaster Response Force/AFP Heavy rain made about 10% stronger by human-caused climate change triggered the landslides that killed more than 200 people in India’s southern state of Kerala last month, a team of international scientists has concluded. The landslides…
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Arshad Nadeem won the men’s javelin gold at Paris Olympics 2024© X (Twitter) Arshad Nadeem scripted history by becoming the first athlete from Pakistan to win an individual Olympic gold medal. Nadeem came up with a monster throw of 92.97m to break the Olympic record and clinch the gold medal in the men’s…
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Suspense continued on the fate of Vinesh Phogat’s appeal against her Olympic disqualification with the ad-hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport extending the time limit to deliver its decision till August 16 without specifying the reasons for continuing to defer the matter. The 29-year-old was disqualified from the women’s 50kg freestyle final…
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Ukrainian servicemen operate an armoured military vehicle in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 13, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine launched a surprise offensive into the Russian border region of Kursk on August 6, 2024, capturing over two dozen towns and villages in the most significant cross-border attack…
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Shashi Tharoor said that India must stand with the people of Bangladesh. New Delhi: Amid the ongoing violence in Bangladesh, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that it is difficult for people in India to be indifferent when every symbol of the country’s friendship with Bangladesh is being attacked there. Pointing to the turmoil in Bangladesh,…
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The coastline of a small island off the coast of Antarctica, seen from a window on a commercial flight, February 8, 2017. After the previous ice age, a lot of ice melted from the northernmost and the southernmost parts of the earth, causing the planet to spin faster. | Photo Credit: Matt Palmer/Unsplash In yet…
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