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The Story so far: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2026 on June 22, 2026 to amend the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) [F-C] Rules, 2011. The Rules enable an Act passed by the Parliament to be implemented and must be notified in the Gazette of India. The principal…
Rishabh Pant. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Rishabh Pant took a massive pay cut of ₹12 crore after two underwhelming seasons as the Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) captain and Delhi Capitals (DC) wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav were involved in a high-profile trade off completed on Tuesday (June 23, 2026). Pant returns to the Delhi Capitals…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. | Photo Credit: AP Iran said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026) that inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog would not be given access to its nuclear sites that were bombed during the war with Israel and the United States last year. “We have not had a meeting with the…
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In the prologue to his 1989 book The Emperor’s New Mind, the Nobel laureate Roger Penrose narrates a story. At a grand public ceremony, an ultimate supercomputer is switched on for the first time before a packed auditorium. It is the most powerful machine ever built, designed to answer any question put to it. The…
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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Turkish police on Tuesday (June 23, 2026) arrested more than 200 people suspected of links to the Islamic State and outlawed far-left groups, officials said, before an upcoming NATO summit. The Ankara prosecutor’s office said 209 people had been detained in the capital, while 32 others remained at…
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy with Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, Manoharlal Khattar and G. Kishan Reddy in New Delhi on June 23, 2026 | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Telangana Government’s discussions with the Central Government on the Hyderabad Metro Rail takeover and expansion have ended productively. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has succeeded in…
Nitish Kumar Reddy, during a practice session. File picture | Photo Credit: R.Ragu The promising Suryansh Shedge has replaced injured all-rounder Nitish Reddy in India’s squads for the upcoming T20I series against Ireland and England, the BCCI said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026). Earlier, India was dealt a blow as Reddy was ruled out of…
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West Bengal cabinet minister Agnimitra Paul, along with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, presents a cheque to a beneficiary under the Annapurna Yojana 2026 (or Annapurna Bhandar Scheme), at Nabanna (State Secretariat), in Howrah on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday (June 4, 2026) rolled out the…
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The meetings of Project Management Unit will ordinarily be convened on the first and third Tuesdays of every calendar month to ensure systematic appraisal and time-bound disposal of proposals received. File | Photo Credit: S.S. Kumar As a sequel to the Ease of Doing Business legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly, the Puducherry government has…
Belgian physicist Francois Englert (left) and British physicist Peter Higgs at CERN on July 4, 2012. | Photo Credit: AP The Belgian physicist and Nobel laureate François Englert passed away on June 18 aged 93. Englert’s contributions changed the way physicists understood the fundamental nature of the universe. Englert’s parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants. He survived…
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