Month: January 2025

20-Year-Old JEE Aspirant Dies By Suicide In Kota; 2nd Case In 24 Hours: Cops

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Kota, Rajasthan: A 20-year-old youth, who was preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his PG room in Rajasthan’s Kota district, police said on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Abhishek, a resident of Guna in Madhya Pradesh, who had been preparing for the…

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Brazil Slams Meta For Ending Fact-Checking Program

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Brasilia: A decision by social media giant Meta to end fact-checking in the United States is “bad for democracy,” Brazil’s newly appointed communication minister Sidonio Palmeira said Wednesday. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stunned many with his announcement Tuesday that he was pulling the plug on fact-checking at Facebook and Instagram in the United…

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NZ batter Martin Guptill retires from international cricket

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Martin Guptill of New Zealand. | Photo Credit: AFP New Zealand batter Martin Guptill on Wednesday (January 8, 2024) announced his retirement from international cricket, though the 38-year-old will continue to play in the T20 leagues around the world. Currently, Guptill, who last played for New Zealand in 2022, is leading the Auckland Aces in…

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Tottenham Hotspur vs Liverpool LIVE Streaming, Carabao Cup LIVE Telecast EFL Cup: When And Where To Watch

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Tottenham vs Liverpool LIVE Streaming, Carabao Cup: Premier League leaders Liverpool take on Tottenham Hotspur in the first leg of the Carabao Cup. Liverpool have been the most in-form side in the world in the 2024/25 season, and have the chance to take a step towards their first trophy of the season. On…

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“Why Don’t We Call US ‘Mexican America'”: Mexican President To Trump

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Mexico City: Mexico’s president took a swipe at Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying that the United States should be called “Mexican America,” after Trump’s vow to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” At her regular morning press conference, Claudia Sheinbaum displayed a 17th-century world map showing North America as “Mexican America.” Pointing…

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Woman Alleges Assault By Kuki “Tenants” Over Land, Naga Village Authority In Manipur Sends Warning

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Imphal/New Delhi: A village authority and civil society organisations of the Naga tribes in Manipur have condemned an alleged attack by members of the Kuki tribes on a woman over her attempt to build a house on a plot of land in the village, which the village authority says is exclusively a Liangmai Naga village….

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Safe From Looting, Damascus Museum Reopens A Month After Assad’s Fall

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Damascus: Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The antiquities museum closed its doors on December 7, a day before Damascus was taken by rebel forces, over fears of looting. “We firmly shut the museum’s iron…

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Ahead of Union Budget, Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey entrusted with Revenue department

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Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu With a little over three weeks to go for the Union Budget on February 1, the Centre on Wednesday (January 8, 2024) shifted the recently appointed Revenue Secretary Arunish Chawla to the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), and entrusted Finance Secretary…

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Canada As 51st US State? Republicans Would Never Win Another Election

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Since his re-election, Donald Trump has drawn plenty of attention for neo-annexationist propositions made on social media about the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada — including in the hours following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation announcement. A day later, he threatened to use “economic force” to make Canada the 51st American state. For a supposed…

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