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Headlines continue to highlight the devastating financial ruin of investors who trade in the Futures and Options (F&O) segment, as many of them get caught in a spiral of debt. Mounting financial pressure from these trading losses has recently led to multiple cases of suicide. At their core, F&O contracts are derivatives. They allow investors…
Means a lot: Sindhu said the win over Yamaguchi was special. | Photo Credit: AFP A title after 20 months is perhaps the best preparation P.V. Sindhu could hope for in the run-up to the prestigious World Badminton Championships at home. Becoming the first ever Indian winner of the Japan Open on Sunday, a Super750 event, against home favourite…
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As the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) started its current protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on June 20, at the peak of Delhi’s punishing summer, the focus was mostly on the founder of the party, Abhijeet Dipke, who had by then become an online sensation. As the sun went down, the Delhi Police…
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This photo released by the Azaward Liberation Front shows what they say is the aftermath of an attack by FLA separatists and jihadist militants in Gao, northern Mali, on July 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP At least 50 Malian soldiers were killed in an attack by Tuareg separatists and jihadists as they left the…
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Prominent Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara flew Saturday (July 18, 2026) into exile in the United States after serving a five-year sentence on the island, as Washington urged Havana to release more than 700 political prisoners. Otero Alcantara, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was sentenced to five years in prison…
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Expressing concern over recurring student suicides across Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the institutions to constitute high-level committees to recommend measures for preventing such deaths and mitigating the factors that contribute to them. The direction came while disposing of appeals filed by Dheeraj Kumar Singh, an alumnus of…
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Syndrela held her nerve when it mattered most much to the delight of the home supporters. | Photo Credit: BUTTERFLYUTT Dempo Goa Challengers continued its dream run, edging past PBG Pune Jaguars on Sunday, to preserve its unbeaten record and become the first team to book a semifinal berth in Ultimate Table Tennis Season 7. It was a collective…
Koeberg has been in operation for 40 years and was in 2024 granted an extension for another 20 years. (Representational image) | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Recent radioactive contamination incidents at Africa’s only nuclear power plant were minor and posed no public danger, officials said on Sunday (July 19, 2026), reaffirming South Africa’s intention to…
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Pakistan’s anti-cybercrime body has issued summons to Noreen Niazi, sister of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, accusing her of disseminating “false, offensive and inflammatory” content on social media to defame state institutions and spread “fake narratives”. The summons came after an interview with Ms. Niazi was widely circulated on social media, in which she claimed…
A Palestinian man and a child carry a burnt carpet out of Al-Taqwa mosque, whose entrance was torched and walls were daubed with Hebrew graffiti in an attack allegedly carried out by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Al-Tuwani, south of Yatta, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank on July 19, 2026. |…
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