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Team Pakistan in action© AFP Pakistan have slipped to eighth in the World Test Championship standings following their 10-wicket loss to Bangladesh and a subsequent over rate penalty in the series-opener in Rawalpindi. With 16 points and a winning percentage of 22.22 after six games, Pakistan languish in the second last position in…
During the Assembly session in July 2024, Woman and Child Empowerment Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar had said that 3,403 individuals from sexual minorities were allotted houses under the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and Devaraj Urs housing schemes. | Photo Credit: UMESH S SHETTIGAR In July, the Karnataka government announced that the Gruha Lakshmi scheme, under which…
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Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A Bangladeshi student studying at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar in Assam was sent back to her country after she reacted with a ‘love’ emoji to an anti-India post on social media, police said on Tuesday (August 27). Cachar Superintendent of Police Numal…
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Representational image of Australia’s overseas education orientation | Photo Credit: The Hindu Australia will accept only 2,70,000 overseas students in 2025, the country’s education ministry announced Tuesday (August 27, 2024). A favourite destination for international candidates for higher studies and work, Australia has decided to limit the intake of foreign student to “in an effort…
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White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan is welcomed by Yang Tao, Director General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, and U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, upon arriving in Beijing on, August 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A top White House official has arrived in China…
IMA president RV. Asokan. FIle | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on Tuesday (August 27, 2024) said the Indian Medical Association (IMA) president R V Asokan’s unconditional apology published in a newspaper over his “damaging” statements in an interview to PTI was illegible and the font miniscule. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and…
Pakistan slumped to a humuliating 10-wicket against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi. Spinners Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan took seven wickets between them to secure Bangladesh’s maiden win over Pakistan in five-day cricket, a stunning 10-wicket victory in the first Test in Rawalpindi on Sunday. Mehidy grabbed 4-21 and Shakib 3-44 to trigger…
UTT 2024: G Sathiyan in action© UTT Both Dabang Delhi TTC and Athlead Goa Challengers will have a point to prove when they meet for the first time in Ultimate Table Tennis 2024 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Wednesday. Led by Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, the team from Delhi has lost both its ties…
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. File. | Photo Credit: AP Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was charged Tuesday (August 27) with sedition over a speech he made that allegedly questioned the integrity of the country’s previous king. Mr. Muhyiddin, who led Malaysia from March 2020 until August 2021, pleaded not guilty in a…
File photo of Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R C Bhargava | Photo Credit: PTI India has proven the ‘fallacy’ of incompatibility of rapid economic growth and a democratic political system, and the continuity of government and policies give industry the confidence of sustained high growth, Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R C Bhargava said on Tuesday…