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TikTok and ByteDance on Monday filed the emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals. Washington: A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the short-video app by Jan. 19 or face a ban. TikTok and…
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Members of the Karnataka Legislative Council cutting across party lines on Friday urged the State government to take steps to increase the reservation for the most backward communities under category 1 to 7% from the present 4%. Raising the issue under Rule 330, BJP member Talawar Sabanna said that despite being the most backward communities,…
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Washington DC: Sun Tzu, A Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher who lived approximately in the 5th Century BC, is best known for his famous book ‘The Art Of War’. In it, he wrote a proverb well-known to the world even today – “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”. US President-elect Donald Trump…
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Gaganyaan is ready to launch by the end of this year, ISRO said. New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it has reached a significant milestone in the Gaganyaan Programme, with the first solid motor segment moved from the production plant to the launch complex. The space agency said, “India’s human spaceflight…
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India vs Australia Live Updates, 3rd Test Day 1: India won the toss and opted to field against Australia in the third Test of the five-match series at The Gabba, Brisbane. It could be a series-deciding game as both the teams are level at 1-1 with Australia making a remarkable comeback through the pink-ball Test…
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Unmindful of the risk, youngsters playing in the sea in Visakhapatnam. Warning boards were erected here after several people drowned over the years. | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK The World Health Organization (WHO) published its first-ever global status report on drowning prevention on Friday, December 13, 2024. The report, released at an event in Geneva, reveals that three lakh…
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A general view inside Sednaya Prison, where thousands of people were said to be detained and tortured by the Assad regime over the last decade, on December 13, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The former head of a notorious Syrian prison was charged on Thursday (December 13, 2024) in the United…
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Damascus: Syria’s Islamist-led rebel alliance had been planning the surprise ouster of President Basher al-Assad for a year, an opposition military leader told the Guardian in an interview published Friday. The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Islamist group, which says it has moved away from its roots in Al-Qaeda, has long-controlled a part of northwest Syria….
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The accused husband is a local Panchayat Extension Officer (PEO), police said. (Representational) Bhubaneswar: The Rourkela Police in Odisha on Friday arrested a man and his brother-in-law, an Assistant Sub Inspector of Police, for hatching a plot to kill the pregnant wife at Jhirdapali village in Sundargarh district. The accused persons were identified as Deben…
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This photo released on Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. | Photo Credit: Adithya Narayan _11366@Chennai Iran has agreed to increased monitoring by the UN nuclear watchdog at its Fordo enrichment plant, following its plans to ramp up production…
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