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Massive wildfires roaring through the Los Angeles area left neighborhoods in ruins Wednesday (January 8, 2024), killing at least two people and threatening landmarks made famous by Hollywood as desperate residents escaped through flames, hurricane-force winds and towering columns of smoke. Three major blazes that erupted just a day earlier blanketed the city with a…
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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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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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 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…
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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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….
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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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…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned whether a woman with intellectual disability has no right to become a mother. A division bench of Justices R V Ghuge and Rajesh Patil was hearing a petition filed by a 27-year-old woman’s father, seeking permission for medical termination of her 21-week pregnancy on the ground that…