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The 76th junior National basketball championship for boys and girls will be held from May 22 to 29 at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium here. Organised by the Pondicherry Basketball Association under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India (BFI), the tournament will feature 30 teams in the boys’ section and 25 in the…
Explosion at a temple firecracker storage unit in Thripunithura. | Photo Credit: File The Kerala government has sanctioned ₹10 lakh each as compensation from the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF) to the families of two persons who were killed in the explosion at a temporary firecracker storage unit at Choorakadu, Thripunithura, in Ernakulam district…
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Australian High Commissioner to India Philip Green during an interaction with The Hindu in Vijayawada. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri Amid the global energy shortage triggered by the Middle East crisis and tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, enhanced LNG supplies from Australia could become a viable alternative to bridge India’s energy demand-supply gap, Australian…
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Israeli forces on Tuesday (May 19, 2026) intercepted all remaining vessels from an activist flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, the latest effort to highlight the grim conditions for nearly 2 million Palestinians with severe shortages of housing, food and medicine. A live feed on the Global Sumud Flotilla website showed armed…
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A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft takes off for a mission supporting Operation Epic Fury during the Iran war at an undisclosed location on March 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 42 U.S. aircraft, including fighter jets and drones, were lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury launched on February 28…
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At least 14 militants were killed and several others injured in a clash between rival armed groups in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday (May 20, 2026), police said. According to a police officer, fighting erupted between groups led by militant commanders Ahmad Kazim and Mumtaz Imti in the Manato Kamran Killay area of…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, in a joint op-ed across several news platforms on Wednesday (May 20, 2026), outlined an expanded roadmap for cooperation between the two countries across sectors, including trade, technology, energy, space, and security, against the backdrop of an emerging “Indo-Mediterranean” corridor. “The relationship between India and Italy…
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Image used for representational purpose only. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific region of southern Peru late on Tuesday (May 19, 2026), injuring 27 people and damaging buildings, officials said. No deaths were reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake’s epicentre was 20 km east-southeast of the town of Pampa de Tate, in…
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A Finnish diver (left) gets ready to attempt to recover the bodies of two of the four Italians who died deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll earlier this month, in Vaavu Atoll, Maldives on May 19, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Divers on Wednesday (May 20, 2026) recovered the last two bodies of…
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India, who featured in the finals of the first two editions of the WTC, are now ranked only above Pakistan in the rankings among Asian countries. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar The Indian cricket team dropped to sixth in the latest World Test Championship (WTC) rankings after Bangladesh improved a rung to fifth…
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