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In a shocking incident, the principal of a private school in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district was accused of ordering more than 100 Class 10 girls to remove their shirts for writing messages on them. It was the last day of the students in school on Thursday before the board exams and the students wanted to make…
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a surprise visit to the Maldives, during which he held talks with President Mohamed Muizzu and discussed the state of bilateral relations, amid Male’s recent warming up to India. Mr. Wang, who is also a member of the powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, met Mr. Muizzu during…
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Elon Musk escalated a spat Saturday with the ex-EU digital chief Thierry Breton, describing him as a “tyrant of Europe” as the two men traded barbs online. An ally of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, the tech billionaire has long criticised the European Union’s rules regulating the digital space, accusing Brussels of censorship. This week…
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A mob on Saturday stormed and destroyed a makeshift camp of Assam Rifles in Manipur’s Kamjong district over alleged harassment and restrictions on transportation of timber, officials said. Members of the group that attacked the camp in Hongbei area belonged to Kasom Khullen block of the Naga majority district. Tensions escalated on Saturday when the…
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Image used for representational purpose. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images The story so far: An assessment of India’s groundwater by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) found that several States are grappling with a serious problem of nitrate contamination. Which are the sources of contamination? The most concerning finding was that the number of…
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Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma with Hally War, the man who initiated the weaving of the living root bridge at Sohra, which is popularly known as Cherrapunjee. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For the first time, trekking became part of the Cabinet meeting drill for the Ministers in Meghalaya. On Saturday (January 11, 2025), Chief…
The new Danish Royal Coat of Arms, right, is seen next to the one established in 1972, seen at left. | Photo Credit: AP On January 1, the King of Denmark unveiled a new coat of arms after more than 50 years. It features the polar bear and the ram (symbolising Greenland and the Faroe…
The first big news from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the New Year seems to have an in-built element of surprise in it. On January 7, V. Narayanan, a rocket and spacecraft propulsion expert, who heads the ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, was named successor to S. Somanath, the current…
The first big news from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the New Year seems to have an in-built element of surprise in it. On January 7, V. Narayanan, a rocket and spacecraft propulsion expert, who heads the ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, was named successor to S. Somanath, the current…
More than 11 years after assuming power as Venezuela’s interim President following the death of popular leader Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro has yet again been sworn in as the President of the Latin American country. The circumstances of the retention of his post and the reactions to the ceremony from international actors provide a sense…
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