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Story so far: A fishing trawler carrying around 250–280 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, capsized in the Andaman Sea in mid-April 2026 while attempting to reach Malaysia. According to UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), around 250 people are feared dead or missing, based on preliminary…
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Ukraine’s Minister of Defence Mykhailo Fedorov. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Large protests erupted in several Ukrainian cities on Thursday (July 16, 2026) morning against the removal of popular Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. AFP reporters in Kyiv saw more than a thousand people gathered on a central square, singing the Ukrainian national anthem, waving Ukrainian…
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R. Ashwin said, teams like the Netherlands, Scotland, Nepal, USA and Ireland need more meaningful matches, not just qualification tournaments for the collective growth that will make this sport a spectacle at the Olympics. File | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Indian Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday (July 16, 2026) said the structural changes made…
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Image used for representational purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Three passengers were injured in a brawl over a seating dispute aboard a local train in Maharashtra’s Thane district shortly after midnight on Thursday (July 16, 2026), police said. The incident occurred in the luggage compartment of the Ambernath-bound suburban train, Kalyan Government…
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Kamji Gond, a resident of Gaighat village, who allegedly died after being assaulted by police. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The district administration has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged custodial death of a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, while the Samajwadi Party has announced that a high-level delegation will…
Bossing the turf: Spain’s relentless pressing, immaculate possession and defensive organisation suffocated France. | Photo Credit: REUTERS France had arrived in Dallas carrying the tournament’s most feared attack. Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele and Michael Olise had combined for 13 goals and 10 assists in six matches as opponents struggled to contain them. By the end of…
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U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks with reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States is imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil after finding a range of what it deemed unfair trade practices by the world’s 10th-biggest economy. The tariffs, which were first proposed last month,…
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar poses for a picture with Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, Minister of State, MEITY Jitin Prasada, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission, Henna Virkkunen, EU Commissioners Ekaterina Zaharieva and Maroš Šefčovič after the meeting of the India – EU Trade and…
Rohingya refugees crew a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal. File (Image used for representational purpose only) | Photo Credit: Reuters More than 500 people are feared dead after reports that two boats carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority have capsized in the Bay of Bengal, officials said on Thursday (July 16, 2026)….
Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Greater Chennai Police have arrested a man for allegedly spreading false and defamatory information about the Tamil Nadu Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Ramesh on social media. According to the police, on July 13, 2026, several social media posts falsely linked the Minister to…