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The star-studded global javelin competition which India is hosting in May with Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra in the tournament’s organising team, has received endorsement from World Athletics president Sebastian Coe. Coe said the event will help showcase India’s ability to host gold-level athletics events. “World Athletics is delighted to support this new event…
Riding on Jamie Maclaren’s record second-minute goal, Mohun Bagan Super Giant extended their dominance in the Kolkata derby with a 1-0 win over traditional rivals East Bengal FC in their Indian Super League match in Guwahati on Saturday. The match was moved to the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium after the Bidhannagar Police, under…
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A man narrowly escaped potentially serious injury when an under-construction building at Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj Railway station collapsed on Saturday afternoon. Moments before the accident, which trapped around two dozen workers under the rubble, the man was seen walking with a wooden pole around a scaffolding frame, CCTV footage showed. He entered the frame and…
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SEBI’s Wholetime Member Ananth Narayan. File The capital markets regulator is not planning any more measures to curb or restrict activity in derivatives, SEBI’s Wholetime Member Ananth Narayan said on Saturday (January 11, 2025). “An expert group under former RBI executive director G. Padmanabhan continues to work on bettering the system, and some moves…
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India’s coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Rohit Sharma. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) met with key members of India’s men’s cricket team’s management to take a stock after a disastrous season of Test cricket and planning the way forward. The meeting was attended by Test and…
Imphal: Curfew was clamped in a sub-division in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on Saturday following tension between the Naga and Kuki-Zo community people while in a separate incident in Kamjong district, a mob on Saturday destroyed a makeshift camp of the Assam Rifles, officials said Officials in Imphal said that tension has been prevailing for the…
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Mayotte was hit by Cyclone Chido in December. Paris: The French overseas territory of Mayotte, devastated by the passage of Cyclone Chido in December, will be placed on a red weather alert from 1900 GMT on Saturday, a top official said, as residents of the Indian Ocean archipelago brace for a new storm. “I have…
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The return of Mohammed Shami was the biggest news that came out of the BCCI selection meeting for the India vs England five-T20I series that starts on January 22. Also, Jasprit Bumrah, who led India in the Perth and Sydney Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, has been rested for the forthcoming series against…
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New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday said a Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) will be opened in each of the country’s 543 parliamentary constituencies. Scindia made the announcement while inaugurating a Passport Seva Kendra in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna, the parliamentary constituency he represents. The Union minister also said that six new passport…
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David Shulman, the Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, says the West Bank has witnessed enhanced settler violence ever since the latest war between Israel and Hamas broke out. Today’s Israel looks like the South Africa at the height of apartheid, “just a few years before the system collapsed,” he says, adding that the West…
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