Month: July 2026

Atchannaidu urges greater central support for agriculture in Andhra Pradesh

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Atchannaidu urges greater central support for agriculture in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister K. Atchannaidu. | Photo Credit: File Photo Andhra Pradesh Minister of Agriculture, Cooperation and Marketing Kinjarapu Atchannaidu held a series of high-level meetings in New Delhi on Tuesday with Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan, Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Union Minister of State for Steel and Heavy Industries…

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Stock markets fall for second day, dragged by HDFC Bank, West Asia crisis; Sensex down 238 points

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Stock markets fall for second day, dragged by HDFC Bank, West Asia crisis; Sensex down 238 points

Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed lower on Tuesday (July 21, 2026), dragged by selling in HDFC Bank for the second day alongside risk-off sentiment amid escalating West Asia crisis. Falling for the second day, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined 238.41 points, or 0.31%, to settle at 77,470.11 with nine of its constituents closing lower…

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Rupee gains 12 paise to close at 96.24 against U.S. dollar

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Rupee gains 12 paise to close at 96.24 against U.S. dollar

Image used for representational purposes. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Rupee pared initial losses and settled for the day higher by 12 paise at 96.24 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday (July 21, 2026), as traders assessed the strong inflows related to the Reserve Bank’s initiatives to support foreign exchange liquidity amid global market…

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Proposed property tax revision under CURE an “outright tax extortion”, says Telangana BJP chief Ramchander Rao

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Proposed property tax revision under CURE an “outright tax extortion”, says Telangana BJP chief Ramchander Rao

BJP Telangana chief N. Ramchander Rao. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL BJP Telangana president N. Ramchander Rao alleged that the Congress government was planning to impose a heavier financial burden on residents of the Hyderabad capital region through the proposed municipal reforms. Addressing a press conference at the party’s State office in the city,…

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Cricket’s governing body shifts the goalposts for the usual reasons

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Cricket’s governing body shifts the goalposts for the usual reasons

The irony of international cricket is that while the motivation for lower-ranked teams is to improve by playing against top teams, that of two of the stakeholders, television and the International Cricket Council, is money. The interests of the sport therefore often take a backseat. The last 50-over World Cup (in 2023) had only 10…

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Turn And Burn, Fighton and Organised Chaos catch the eye

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Turn And Burn, Fighton and Organised Chaos catch the eye

Turn And Burn, Fighton and Organised Chaos caught the eye when the horses were exercised here on Tuesday (July 21) morning. Inner sand. 600m: Zafferano (Ajinkya) 40. Easy. Latios (Prasad) 38. Urged. Queen Of Beauties (A. Gaikwad) 39. Moved freely. Minari (Neeraj) 40. Urged. Ashwa Almaty 42. Easy. 800m: King Ke (Ajinkya), Chagall (Siddharth) 55,…

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Tamil rapper Arivu detained during bid to protest against NEET near Secretariat in Chennai

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Tamil rapper Arivu detained during bid to protest against NEET near Secretariat in Chennai

Tamil rapper Arivu. File | Photo Credit: Akhila Easwaran Popular Tamil rapper Arivu (Arivarasu Kalainesan) was detained by Greater Chennai City police after he and three others attempted to stage a protest near the Secretariat on Tuesday (July 21, 2026), demanding the abolition of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). Arivu and the three protesters gathered…

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Pothundy double murder case: a death penalty verdict with rare focus on rehabilitating victims’ family

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Pothundy double murder case: a death penalty verdict with rare focus on rehabilitating victims’ family

Chenthamara, the accused in the Nemmara double murder case, is being brought to the Additional District and Sessions Court-IV, Palakkad, on Monday. | Photo Credit: K.K. MUSTAFAH The 132-page judgment in the Pothundy double murder case has broken new ground by directing measures for the rehabilitation of the orphaned children of the victims, even as…

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Russia in touch with New Delhi over killing of Indian ship crew in Black Sea, Kremlin says

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Russia in touch with New Delhi over killing of Indian ship crew in Black Sea, Kremlin says

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry ‌Peskov told reporters that Russia will continue ⁠to hit vessels involved ⁠in supplying the Ukrainian military. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Kremlin ​said on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) ‌it was in touch with ​its partners ⁠in India after a missile strike killed ‌four Indians on a Black ‌Sea cargo ‌ship ⁠as…

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