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Cyberabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner G. Srijana said that sanitation workers are often forced to clear waste that should ideally have been handled by those generating the garbage. The image is used for representative purposes only. | Photo Credit: MOHAMMED YOUSUF From discarded tea cups outside kiosks to food packets piling up beside commercial complexes, roadside…
In a clear-cut mandate, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has won the 2026 Assembly election in Kerala with a vote share that is the coalition’s highest since the 2001 election. After a decade in Opposition, the UDF has been rewarded with a 46.55% vote share, surpassed only by its 2001 performance of 49.05%. It’s…
Redevelopment of the Ratha Beedi (Car Street) in traditional style with unpolished granite flooring and construction of a commercial complex-cum-choultry on the left side of the temple are parts of Master Plan Phase III for the development of facilities at the famed Nagaradhana Centre, Kukke Subrahmanya Temple in Subrahmanya, Dakshina Kannada district. | Photo Credit:…
India is home to more than 1.4 billion people, thousands of communities, hundreds of languages, and five major language families. Many communities have historically practised endogamy and in some regions, consanguineous marriage. This is both a social and a biological fact with medical consequences. India is not one genetic population. Indians carry a layered inheritance…
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Iran is the world’s second-most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups. File | Photo Credit: AP Iran on Wednesday (May 13, 2026) executed a man found guilty of selling information to Israeli intelligence, the judiciary said, the latest in a wave of executions during the war with the country. Since the start of…
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday (May 13, 2026) that many positive things were being said about the enormous potential of U.S.-Russia relations, but in reality “nothing is happening”. After winning the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, Donald Trump re-established U.S. dialogue with Russian…
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On the SSA, the company said it recorded ₹453 crore as a reduction of revenue from sale of goods in its Global Generics Segment. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Pharma major Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories reported consolidated net profit slumped to ₹221.3 crore for the March quarter compared to ₹1,586.7 crore a year earlier on the…
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President Donald Trump is escorted by Air Force Col. Christopher M. Robinson, commander of the 89th Airlift Wing, right, as he walks from Marine One to Air Force One, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. to meet with China’s President Xi Jinping. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday (May 12, 2026) hinted…
A file image of President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: AP A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday (May 12, 2026) temporarily paused a ruling declaring President Donald Trump’s global 10% tariffs illegal, granting a government request to suspend the decision pending appeal. Mr. Trump imposed the temporary 10% duty in February, shortly after the…
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Virat Kohli plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans. File | Photo Credit: AP Mike Brearley once told me about his father who had played first class cricket for both Yorkshire and Middlesex. Late in life, damaged by Alzheimer’s, he had no understanding of the…
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