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(From left) Telangana Social Welfare Minister Adluri Laxman Kumar, Legislative Council Chairman Gutha Sukender Reddy, Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Roads & Buildings Minister Komati Reddy Venkat Reddy at a meeting held in Hyderabad on May 6, 2026 | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Telangana Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas…
Qatar Airways flight QR904 carrying families of suspected Islamic State militants arrives at Melbourne International Airport, in Melbourne,on May 7, 2026 | Photo Credit: via Reuters A group of Australian women and children linked to the extremist group Islamic State arrived home on Thursday (May 7, 2026) after years in a camp in Syria, with…
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China’s former Defence Minister Li Shangfu attends the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore June 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two former Chinese Defence Ministers, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over graft charges on Thursday (May 7, 2026), official media reported. Their sentences were separately handed…
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The Pakistan police and security forces cordoned off the area and launched an investigation. File picture | Photo Credit: AP Three children have been killed and two others injured in an explosion outside their house in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The explosion occurred late on Wednesday (May 6) in the Ghwa Khwa…
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A file photo of a waterbody in Kozhikode kept off-limits for public after a boy who had taken bath there was diagnosed with amoebic meningoencephalitis. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh A 40-year-old woman from Arattupuzha, Alappuzha, who was recently diagnosed with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) remains in stable condition, according to health authorities. This is…
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EU bans artificial intelligence systems generating sexualised deepfakes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters European Union lawmakers and countries agreed to ban artificial intelligence systems generating sexualised deepfakes on Thursday (May 7, 2026), after global outrage this year over non-consensual nudes produced by Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok. “Today the EU has drawn a red line. AI…
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Paytm Payments Bank failed to comply with the conditions stipulated in the payments bank licence issued to it, the central bank said. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Fintech major One97 Communications, which operates the Paytm brand, has ruled out plans to apply for a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) licence. During the company’s Q4 earnings call…
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Charge sheet filed against 11 individuals in HDFC Bank fraud case in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, by Economic Offences Wing. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch has filed a charge sheet against 11 people in a financial fraud case linked to an HDFC Bank branch in Jammu…
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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu addressing the 7th Collectors’ Conference at the Secretariat on Thursday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday (May 7, 2026) said the Andhra Pradesh government was pursuing a governance model focused on welfare, development and wealth creation, and directed District Collectors and officials to adopt…
Rescue workers search through the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike the previous day in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, May 7, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Israel said on Thursday (May 7, 2026) it had killed a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in an airstrike on Beirut a day…
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