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New Delhi: After AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Atishi would be arrested in a “fake” case orchestrated by the BJP through central agencies, Delhi Transport Department’s top official issued a strong rebuttal today. Addressing a press conference alongside Atishi, Mr Kejriwal this week accused the BJP of conspiring to fabricate a…
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South Africa vs Pakistan 1st Test Day 4, Live Score Updates© AFP South Africa vs Pakistan 1st Test Day 4, Live Updates: South Africa resume the fourth day of the ongoing first Test against Pakistan from 27/3 in Centurion. Currently, Temba Bavuma and Aiden Markram are standing unbeaten at the crease as the…
Herat, Afghanistan: Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi’s cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools even as a Taliban crackdown…
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A cricket World Cup, half a dozen Olympic medals and two chess world champions. Year 2024 gave the average Indian sports fan unprecedented reasons to celebrate as peaks outnumbered the valleys in a confident march towards a promising future. Tales that bear repeating were many but the year going by will primarily be…
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Elon Musk has received support from President-elect Donald Trump on his stance on H-1B visas, a day after the tech billionaire vowed to “go to war” to defend the programme used to bring skilled foreign workers to the US. Mr. Musk, who along with Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has been tapped by Mr. Trump to…
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New Delhi: A secret passageway built in 1565 for the ruling Medici family in Florence, Italy, has opened to the public for the first time. The 2,460-foot Corridoio Vasariano connects three landmarks: Palazzo Vecchio, Uffizi Galleries, and Palazzo Pitti, reports CNN. The passage was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence, and…
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Mikheil Kavelashvili is a former footballer who played for Manchester City. Tbilisi, Georgia: Georgia on Sunday inaugurated governing party loyalist Mikheil Kavelashvili as president despite his election being declared “illegitimate” by the outgoing leader and opposition groups. The far-right former footballer was sworn in at a parliamentary ceremony moments after outgoing president Salome Zurabishvili said…
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New Delhi: China has built or expanded over 200 specialised detention facilities across the country to support President Xi Jinping’s widening anti-corruption campaign, reports CNN. The detention facilities, known as “liuzhi” centres, are designed to hold suspects for up to six months without access to legal counsel or family visits. Since coming to power in…
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Seoul: The Jeju Air plane crash at South Korea’s Muan, in which 179 of the 181 people on board are feared dead, came at a time when the Asian country’s government is in the middle of a full-blown political crisis. South Korea’s current president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was impeached on December 14, following a short-lived…
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Seoul, South Korea: A somber atmosphere filled with grief loomed over South Korea on Sunday morning as a plane carrying 181 people crashed and burst into flames, likely killing at least 179 of them. Inconsolable families and friends of the passengers hurriedly gathered at the Muan International Airport where the incident took place, looking for…
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