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Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Narwade Vinayak Karbhari addresses a district-level bankers’ committee meeting in Mangaluru on June 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: H S MANJUNATH Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Narwade Vinayak Karbhari on June 30 cajoled banks to improve lending to housing and non-priority sector as banks get good returns…
Jayant Gautam, son of former Congress MP A.P. Gautam, was detained and later released in connection with controversial hoardings put up along a highway in the Haidergarh area of Uttar Pradesh, depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raising issues including Ram temple donation, paper leak and inflation, officials said on Tuesday…
From June 1 to June 30, Telangana received 115.3 mm of rainfall against the normal 130.3 mm, recording a deficit of 12%. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Dark clouds gathered over Hyderabad on several afternoons and evenings this (2026) June, but more often than not they passed without much rain. Apart from the June 9…
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Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The story so far: On June 29, Akal Takht, the highest Sikh temporal seat asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab to revise the recent legal amendments made in the anti-sacrilege law – The ‘Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment), Act 2026’,…
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Justice S. Muralidhar, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, discusses the United Nations panel’s report on crimes committed on Palestinian children by Israeli security forces resulting in the death of at least 20,179 and injury of 44,143 children since the October 7, 2023…
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin celebrated Iran’s elimination from the World Cup, saying he did a “happy dance,” Sports Business Journal reported on Monday (June 29, 2026). The Iranian team barely missed out on reaching the knockout rounds of the tournament. They drew all…
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While speaking at a business conference in London last week, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal questioned the methodologies employed by sovereign ratings agencies in assigning ratings to India, saying they have been “unfair to India”. On the other hand, he praised one ratings agency — CareEdge Ratings — for being “objective”. This is not the first…
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Nainar Nagenthran. File | Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan BJP Tamil Nadu president Nainar Nagenthran, on Tuesday (June 30, 2026), demanded action against a Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) MLA for allegedly distributing rice of poor quality to the people. The rice was distributed to mark the birthday celebrations of TVK founder and Chief Minister C….
Netherlands’ Cody Gakpo points to the sky after scoring against Morocco in the World Cup Round of 32 match on June 29, 2026 | Photo Credit: Reuters The outpouring of emotion from Cody Gakpo after he scored for the Netherlands against Morocco at the World Cup on Monday (June 29, 2026) showed that while the…
The story so far: A Pune court has extended the custody of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, the two accused in the Ketan Agarwal murder case, until July 3, 2026. The court acquiesced to the investigators, who said several aspects of the probe are ongoing, including a forensic study of Mr. Chaudhary’s gait. According to…
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