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In his long political career that started in the early 1990s, Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu was written off several times. And every time, he made a stronger comeback. In 1996, he became Israel’s youngest Prime Minister, and the first to be born in the state of Israel. After losing the 1999 election heavily to Labour’s Ehud…
Farmers affiliated to various organisations staged a protest at Modakkurichi on Wednesday (June 10 2026), demanding waiver of crop loans as promised by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay during the election campaign. Holding bundles of sugarcane, the farmers raised slogans urging the State government to fulfil its assurance to waive crop loans. Indefinite hunger strike…
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A Parliamentary panel has asked the National Testing Agency (NTA) to define what constitutes a “paper leak” in its definition and whether any paper leaks have occurred in exams it conducted since 2018, sources said. The panel’s questionnairefollows NTA officials’ appearance before it last week, where they contended that there was no paper leak from…
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At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 95.52, then touched an intraday high of 95.07 and a low of 95.56 against the U.S. dollar. The rupee finally ended the session at 95.27 (provisional), registering a rise of 14 paise from its previous close. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images The rupee appreciated…
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Miracle Star, Akitaania, Bellavita, Starzella and Star Of Night impressed when the horses were exercised here on Wednesday morning (June 10). Inner sand: 600m: Money Bags (rb) 39.5. Maintains form. Roadrunner (Guruprasad) 40.5. Strode out well. 1400m: Bellavita (Sachin) 1-33, 1,200/1-19, 1,000/1-6, 600/40. Moved attractively. Outer sand: 600m: Diesel (R. Pradeep) 45. Easy. Bright Thunder…
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A person stands on shallow water as cargo and commercial vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, June 8, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Thousands of Iranians in the southern port town of Sirik have lost access to drinking water after U.S. strikes hit two reservoirs in the area,…
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Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai, India. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty retreated from their day’s high and ended flat on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) as renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran unsettled investor sentiment. Weak trends in global markets and relentless foreign fund outflows also made investors…
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She got married to an industrial worker, based in Belagavi, in May 2026. | Photo Credit: Illustration by Satheesh Vellinezhi A 29-year-old woman, Rakshita Pujari, was found dead in her husband’s house in Belagavi on June 10. She hailed from Muniyalu village in Udupi district, in coastal Karnataka. She was married to Manjunath Pujari, an…
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Taiwan’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) fire rockets during a live-fire military exercise, which simulates an enemy invasion, in Taichung, Taiwan on June 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China’s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) in a demonstration of how it might try to…
Representational Image | Photo Credit: Matthew Lewis-ICC The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 promises to be an action-packed affair with India hoping to continue its winning streak from last year’s ODI World Cup. The World Cup will be held in England and Wales from June 12 to July 5, 2026. A total of 12…
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