Month: November 2024

Manipur violence: Rahul Gandhi urges PM to visit State, work towards restoring peace

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Manipur violence: Rahul Gandhi urges PM to visit State, work towards restoring peace

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. | Photo Credit: ANI The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday (November 16, 2024) termed the recent string of violent clashes and continuing bloodshed in Manipur “deeply disturbing”, as he urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the state…

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Johnson’s superb spell secures Australia a T20I series win

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Johnson’s superb spell secures Australia a T20I series win

Australia’s Spencer Johnson celebrates with teammates after taking his fifth wicket of Pakistan’s Abbas Afridi. | Photo Credit: AAP Image via Reuters Australia speedster Spencer Johnson claimed a maiden five-wicket haul in international cricket as the hosts edged out Pakistan by 13 runs in the second Twenty20 International on Saturday (November 16, 2024) to clinch…

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Laxman lavishes praise on team after 3-1 T20I series triumph in SA

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Laxman lavishes praise on team after 3-1 T20I series triumph in SA

Indian players celebrate after their win against South Africa in the fourth T20 cricket match at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday (November 15, 2024). | Photo Credit: AP India head coach for South Africa tour V.V.S. Laxman has hailed the T20 International series triumph as “a special effort” after his team…

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Uddhav Thackeray interview | ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi should have had a CM face during campaign, now we will decide after polls’

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Uddhav Thackeray interview | ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi should have had a CM face during campaign, now we will decide after polls’

Reacting to alliance leader Sharad Pawar’s remark that the party with the most number of votes in Maha Vikas Aghadi should get the Chief Minister post, Mr. Thackeray said he was willing to support anyone as the Chief Minister face. “You have sat there for 10 years, and you will continue sitting there for another…

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Cong. rebel faction backed by CPI(M) claims victory in Kozhikode bank election; Cong. alleges malpractices

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Cong. rebel faction backed by CPI(M) claims victory in Kozhikode bank election; Cong. alleges malpractices

A group of Congress workers and another group of rebels supported by the CPI(M) engaging in a scuffle outside the Government Higher Secondary School for Boys, Parayanchery, in Kozhikode city, where voting to pick directors for the Chevayur Service Cooperative Bank took place on Saturday. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh Nothing short of a spectacle…

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In Sisamau, BJP looks to lure Dalits with a loud cry for ‘larger’ consolidation, SP banks on sympathy wave

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In Sisamau, BJP looks to lure Dalits with a loud cry for ‘larger’ consolidation, SP banks on sympathy wave

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath greets the gathering during a roadshow in support of BJP candidate Sanjeev Sharma for Ghaziabad by-polls in Ghaziabad on Saturday (November 16, 2024). | Photo Credit: ANI Chief Speaker Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had finished his speech at the roadshow for the byelection to Sisamau on Saturday (November 16,…

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Climate March highlights complexities of climate crisis

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Climate March highlights complexities of climate crisis

Climate March 2024 organised from Vazhachal to Athirappilly on Saturday to highlight complexities of the climate crisis. | Photo Credit: K.K. NAJEEB The Climate March 2024 was organised from Vazhachal to Athirappilly on Saturday (November 16) to raise awareness about the severe challenges posed by the climate crisis. The event, led by People’s Climate Action…

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Sri Lanka parliamentary election: How the NPP won over country’s ethnic minorities

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Sri Lanka parliamentary election: How the NPP won over country’s ethnic minorities

A vendor displays newspapers for sale at a stall in Kandy on November 16, 2024. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition won a majority in snap parliamentary polls, provisional results showed on November 15. | Photo Credit: AFP The staggering mandate — over a two-thirds majority — that Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power [NPP] coalition…

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World

Eight killed and 17 injured after knife attack at vocational school in China

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Eight killed and 17 injured after knife attack at vocational school in China

It is the second deadly attack within a week after a man drove his car into people at a sports facility in the southern city of Zhuhai, leaving 35 people dead and injured 43 others. | Photo Credit: Reuters “Eight people were killed and 17 others injured after a stabbing attack at a vocational school…

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U.S. returns over 1,400 antiquities worth $10 million to India

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U.S. returns over 1,400 antiquities worth million to India

A celestial dancer was looted from a temple in Madhya Pradesh in the early 1980’s. | Photo Credit: manhattanda.org A sandstone sculpture looted from Madhya Pradesh in the 1980s and another in green-grey schist looted from Rajasthan in the 1960s are among the over 1,400 antiquities collectively valued at $10 million that the U.S. returned…

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