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Samardeep upset his idol. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR Shot putter Samardeep Singh Gill, triple jumper Praveen Chithravel and hurdlers P. Yashas and T. Santhosh Kumar earned Commonwealth Games qualification on the concluding day of the Federation athletics meet at the Birsa Munda Stadium (Morabadi), here on Monday. At his lucky venue where he…
People from Bengaluru should not be allowed to complain about their weather turning hot. The other day, as a namma friend called to express disappointment over their daytime temperatures reaching as high as 33 degrees, I wondered in what Awadhi words should I inform her about the pleasant 42 degrees here in Kanpur. The baked earth, the…
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The graph of the Indian rupee has been snaking sharply downward. The rupee-to-dollar exchange rate, or the rupees needed to purchase a U.S. dollar, crossed 96 in May this year. That rate was around 85 a year ago, indicating the rupee’s decline in value since then. Exchange rate is the price that a currency, such…
Magnus Carlsen. | Photo Credit: Flickr/Norway Chess There’s something about Magnus Carlsen. Like him or hate him, the Norwegian chess superstar is hard to ignore. He’s probably the greatest sports icon in a nation where football rules the popularity charts and is most spoken about with the FIFA World Cup on the horizon. The 35-year-old…
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People hold Hezbollah flags while commemorating Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday (May 25, 2026) called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume bombing Beirut in response to increased explosive drone attacks…
Nabil Abu Labda carries the body of his 6-year-old daughter, Menna Allah Abu Labda, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during her funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP An Israeli airstrike on a tent in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday (May 25,…
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RCB’s Virat Kohli practises ahead of the IPL 2026 match between Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Royal Challengers Bengaluru Strengths: The defending champion has an all-round squad packed with match-winners. Virat Kohli’s returns, especially in the absence of Phil Salt, reflect that he is as hungry as ever to taste success. The…
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Commotion broke out at public grievance meeting in Sivaganga Collector office on Monday over confusion in token distribution. | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR Commotion broke out at the public grievance meeting in the Sivaganga District Collector’s office due to confusion during the distribution of tokens to those who had come to submit petitions. During the…
Police Commissioner S.V. Rajashekar Babu on Monday (May 25, 2026) launched a training programme titled “NTR Police Khaki Studio” for police constables, aimed at preventing cybercrimes. Under the programme, one police constable from each police station in the commissionerate will be trained for five days on cyber safety and prevention of cyber offences by using…
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An Iranian Health Ministry official said on Monday (May 25, 2026) the injuries suffered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes in late February were only “superficial”, offering a rare account of the day he was wounded. The 56-year-old has not appeared publicly since he was named as Iran’s supreme leader on March…