Month: May 2026

In topsy-turvy Haryana politics, Sonipat latest amphitheatre for BJP-Cong. fight

May 6, 2026 admin

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rajiv Jain, the outgoing mayor of Sonipat Municipal Corporation and the party’s nominee for the May 10 mayoral poll, made an unannounced visit to Nirankari Bhawan on Railway Road on Sunday. Skipping the usual cavalcade and crowd of supporters, Mr. Jain attended a ‘satsang (religious gathering)’ before kicking off a packed day…

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Rampant RCB faces a tricky LSG challenge

May 6, 2026 admin

LSG’s best chance of success will likely come through its own impressive pace battery – including Mohammad Shami, Mohsin Khan, and Prince Yadav Source link

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Can Wolvaardt 2.0 take the Proteas to the promised land?

May 6, 2026 admin

Laura Wolvaardt 4, India 1. That could very well have been the scoreline in the recent five-match T201 series in South Africa. The only match India won was the one in which Wolvaardt failed to reach 20. That was in the fourth T20I at Johannesburg, in which she was out for 18. That was the…

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516 cases booked for footpath encroachments, traffic obstructions

May 6, 2026 admin

Malkajgiri Traffic Police booked 516 cases and imposed fines totalling ₹74,900 during a special enforcement drive against footpath encroachments and carriageway obstructions on Wednesday. The drive was carried out across Trimulgherry and Malkajgiri divisions in coordination with civic authorities. Officials said the exercise targeted unauthorised occupation of footpaths by vendors, illegal parking, and other obstructions…

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Israeli court rejects Gaza flotilla activists’ appeal challenging detention

May 6, 2026 admin

Activist Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national, who was detained aboard the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli court on Wednesday (May 6, 2026) rejected an appeal contesting the detention of two foreign activists seized by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound flotilla, with the rights group representing them denouncing the ruling…

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Cuba says Rubio lying about oil blockade

May 6, 2026 admin

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. | Photo Credit: AP Cuba on Tuesday (May 5, 2026) accused U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio of lying when he denied that the United States was carrying out an oil blockade on Cuba. Cuba has been suffering from an energy crisis since January, when U.S. forces seized Venezuela president…

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‘Kanakadasa built 68 lakes and his social work is a model for us’

May 6, 2026 admin

Guests at the ‘Kanaka Smruti’ programme’ organised by the Centre for Research on Kanakadasa at Mangalore University on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Social reformer, saint and poet of dasa tradition Kanakadasa believed that devotion and knowledge are superior to material wealth. In his compositions or keerthanas, one can notice the subtlety of devotion…

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Indices with over ₹20,000 crore in AUM to be called significant indices: SEBI

May 6, 2026 admin

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). File Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) specified that a Benchmark or Index that mutual fund tracks is ‘significant index’ if it has an AUM beyond ₹20,000 crore, in a circular released 6 May 2026. The threshold will be tested every six months, the capital market watchdog…

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India, Algeria hold first joint defence commission meet

May 6, 2026 admin

Joint Secretary Amitabh Prasad and Chief of Staff of Naval Forces, Algeria, Major General Kaid Nour Eddine, during the inauguration of the India–Algeria Joint Commission on Defence Cooperation in New Delhi on May 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI India and Algeria held their inaugural Joint Commission meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday (May 5,…

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India, Algeria hold first joint defence commission meet

May 6, 2026 admin

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