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Rujm el-Hiri, an ancient basalt rock structure, situated in the Golan Heights, about 16 kilometres east of the Sea of Galilee, has been drifting tens of metres since its construction nearly 5,000 years ago. For years, scientists have pondered the reason for the unusual movement as well as the purpose of the monument, also known…
Image for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Reuters Benchmark indices Sensex and ticked higher for the second straight session on Wednesday (January 15, 2025), buoyed by buying in bellwether stock Reliance Industries, Zomato and Kotak Bank amid a largely firm trend in global markets. However, elevated crude oil prices in the international markets and…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked whether the money from the state exchequer should be used for creating housing, health and educational facilities for the poor or laying cycle tracks in the country. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, which heard a plea for creating separate cycle tracks across…
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Veteran batter Karun Nair is eyeing a comeback into the Indian cricket team, following his purple patch with the bat in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy. In six matches, the Vidarbha batter has amassed 664 runs with five centuries and an impressive strike rate of 120.07. Nair has been dismissed just once in…
Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images An Indian-origin nurse is battling “life-changing injuries” after she was stabbed with a pair of scissors while on a night shift at the Royal Oldham Hospital’s Acute Medical Unit in Greater Manchester, north-west England. The nurse, named at Manchester Magistrates’ Court as Achamma Cherian, was…
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Image for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee extended its recovery for the second straight session and settled with a gain of 13 paise at 86.40 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday (January 15, 2025), tracking favourable cues from domestic equity markets and softening crude oil prices. The American currency index…
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Chhindwara: Three labourers, trapped under the debris after a well collapsed in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district, have died, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Wednesday. The under-construction well caved in at Khunajhir Khurd village in the district on Tuesday evening following which the three persons, including a woman, got trapped, officials earlier said. CM Yadav…
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There was a strange feeling when I walked past the homes taken by the fires at Pasadena and Altadena in Los Angeles. A feeling like I had been there before. But I knew I hadn’t. What did the brick chimney columns and arches leading to nowhere remind me of? Ruins. That is what it was….
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Kannur: A man, believed by his family to be dead and taken to a hospital for further procedures, made a miraculous recovery just minutes before being transferred to the mortuary in this north Kerala district. Pavithran, a 67-year-old from Pachapoika in nearby Koothuparamba, shocked everyone by coming back to life, even after his family had…
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New Delhi: A committee set up by the Union government has recommended that legal action be taken against a former Indian intelligence officer, identified as ‘CC-1’ in an indictment filed in New York City, for allegedly orchestrating a foiled plot to assassinate Khalistani terrorist Gurupatwant Singh Pannun, who is a dual US-Canadian citizen. The enquiry…
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