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A dog looks on as children fill up a jerrycan from a water puddle left by recent heavy flooding in the Hays region south of Yemen’s Hodeidah Province on August 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP At least 16 people have been killed in flash floods in a rebel-held district of Yemen, rebel media reported…
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Journalists gather on a destroyed road as they cover the second day of a large-scale military operation on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on August 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The death toll climbed on Thursday (Ausgut 29, 2024) as Israel pressed a large-scale military operation in…
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File photo of Rashid Khan.© X (formerly Twitter) Afghanistan cricket’s poster boy Rashid Khan will not play the Test format in the near future to nurse his back after having undergone a surgery last year. A source in the Afghanistan Cricket Board told PTI that Rashid and the team management had decided mutually…
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Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong’s now-shuttered outlet Stand News, walks outside on bail after he was found guilty in a landmark sedition trial under a colonial-era law, in Wanchai District Court in Hong Kong on August 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Hong Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its two former…
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India’s armless archer Sheetal Devi finished second in the women’s individual compound open ranking round with a stunning performance to directly make a round of 16 entry in the Paris Paralympics on Thursday. The 17-year-old Devi from Jammu and Kashmir, who shoots with her legs as she was born without arms, scored a…
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A farm labourer holds rice sapling as he prepares to plant them in a field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Above-normal rainfall due to delayed withdrawal of the monsoon could damage India’s summer-sown crops like rice, cotton, soybean, corn, and pulses that are harvested from mid-September. The southwest monsoon is…
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has proposed mandating Qualified Stock Brokers (QSBs) to offer the facility of trading in the secondary market using the UPI-based block mechanism to their clients, similar to the ASBA facility. Per UPI block facility, clients can trade in the secondary market based on blocked funds in their…
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Carrying knives at festivals will be banned, German Interior Minister said. (File) Berlin: German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday the government would toughen knife controls and limit the support given to some illegal migrants following a suspected Islamist stabbing. Three people were killed and eight others injured at a festival in the western city…
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One of India’s top women wrestlers Sakshi Malik will come out with her memoir in October in which she gives an “honest account” of her life — the highs, lows, and everything in between. Published by Juggernaut Books, “Witness” is co-authored by Jonathan Selvaraj. In her fiery memoir, Malik tells her story beginning…
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Left-arm fast bowler Barinder Sran, who played six ODIs and two T20Is for India in 2016, has announced retirement from all forms of the game. In all, he picked 13 wickets while representing India in both white-ball formats. Sran holds the record for the best T20I figures by an Indian male cricketer on…
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