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The median opening at Gandhi Mandapam Road at the Vellayan Street junction has been made fully open; and the traffic signals have been made functional again. | Photo Credit: Prince Frederick Residents of Kotturpuram are heaving a thunderous sigh of relief watching a median opening at Gandhi Mandapam Road “behave” way differently than it had…
Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh. File photo: AICC via ANI. With the wholesale price inflation rising to 9.87% in June, the Congress on Wednesday (July 15, 2026) claimed that the country is steadily heading towards an economic crisis due to the Modi government’s “anti-people policies”. The Opposition party also demanded answers from Prime Minister…
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Fourteen other people, including a former top bureaucrat in the Home Ministry and a former Bhutanese refugee leader, were sentenced to up to four years in jail, a court document showed. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “A court in Nepal jailed two former government Ministers after they were found guilty of forging documents to enable…
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Wildlife ecology in India looks different today than it did a decade ago. Climate change, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and rapid development are all reshaping ecosystems faster than scholars can document them. Thus, ecologists are interested in how biodiversity has changed as well as how it is likely to change next. Just these questions shaped…
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New Zealand authorities have sought to protect the country’s five most endangered birds — the kakapo, takahe (in picture), shore plover, black stilt and orange-fronted parakeet — by vaccinating breeding bird populations. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters New Zealand has detected the first case of H5 bird flu after a migratory seabird was…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close “all other export corridors that benefit the U.S. and its allies”, Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. “Regional energy exports are either shared by all, or denied to all,” the IRGC said…
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Family members hold up portraits of victims as they receive the body of a victim at the Police Hospital morgue, following a deadly fire at a pub in Bangkok, Thailand, July 14, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll from an explosive fire at a Bangkok live music pub has risen to 32 after…
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The innocuous spiral staircase tucked behind Kup Coffee Roasters in Nungambakkam now leads to ‘Chicken Shop’ neon signs, cans of flavoured Milkis, and Ba Da Bom. We enter to pop music blaring from the speakers, a busy open kitchen, and a cooler stocked with cream sodas, K-Drama favourite Maxim coffee, and tiny bottles of Bacchus…
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India’s Washington Sundar plays a shot during the 1st ODI against England at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI India all-rounder Washington Sundar said he is happy to bat anywhere in the order, calling the opportunity to perform different roles “exciting”. Washington, whose role has frequently changed across formats, walked in…
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