Month: July 2026

Students’ federation organises rally seeking abolition of NEET and NTA

July 26, 2026 admin

The Tamil Nadu Students Youth Federation takes out a rally demanding the abolition of NEET, at Egmore on Sunday. | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B The Tamil Nadu Students Youth Federation (TSYF) organised a rally demanding the permanent scrapping of NEET, from Pudupet to the Rajarathinam stadium on Sunday. They carried placards demanding NEET ban,…

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Four booked for cheating pharma firm manager of ₹26 lakh with promise of PDO job

July 26, 2026 admin

A job racket promising appointments as Panchayat Development Officers (PDOs) in the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department has come to light after a senior manager of a private pharmaceutical company allegedly lost ₹26 lakh to fraudsters. According to a complaint filed at the Vidhana Soudha Police Station, the victim, a senior manager at a…

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Manush leads U Mumba to UTT title defence

July 26, 2026 admin

U Mumba TT ended Dempo Goa Challengers’ unbeaten run in UTT-7 to win the title. | Photo Credit: Butterfly UTT Defending champion U Mumba TT snapped Dempo Goa Challengers’ unbeaten run to retain the Ultimate Table Tennis crown with an engrossing 8-5 victory in the Season 7 final at the Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor…

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Raynier’s hat-trick powers Jamshedpur to easy win

July 26, 2026 admin

Raynier was in the thick of things for Jamshedpur. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Jamshedpur FC began its Durand Cup campaign by crushing Sri Lankan Armed Forces side Defenders FC 5-0 in the Group C clash at the Birsa Munda Football Stadium in Ranchi on Sunday. Debutant Raynier Fernandes starred with a brilliant hat-trick, while…

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Suspect in deadly Berlin Pride attack killed in confrontation with police, officials say

July 26, 2026 admin

A candle burns beside flowers and mementos left at the Brandenburg Gate, after a deadly incident in which a vehicle crashed into a crowd near Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day Pride parade on July 25, 2026, leaving multiple people injured and the parade called off, in Berlin, Germany. | Photo Credit: Reuters The suspect in…

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Iran halts ‘retaliatory strikes’ after lull in U.S. attacks

July 26, 2026 admin

A protester stands near a police vehicle while attending an anti-war demonstration outside the main gate of RAF Fairford airbase, which hosts U.S. Air Force (USAF) personnel, after the British government said on July 23, 2026, that Britain’s armed forces stand ready to defend the country and its military bases against any attack, in Fairford,…

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ENC pays tribute to war heroes on Vijay Diwas in Visakhapatnam

July 26, 2026 admin

Chief of Staff of the Eastern Naval Command Vice Admiral Susheel Menon pays tribute by laying a wreath at the Victory at Sea memorial on Beach Road in Visakhapatnam on Sunday. | Photo Credit: V. RAJU The Eastern Naval Command (ENC) on Sunday (July 26, 2026) paid tribute to the heroes of the 1999 Kargil…

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Why is China’s AI push gaining ground? | Explained

July 26, 2026 admin

The story so far: A matter of weeks after Anthropic’s Fable AI model was launched to great acclaim, Chinese firm Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a model that has measured up to the Claude model in most parameters. The notable factor here is that K3, and a clutch of other models made in China, are…

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Neighbours’ dispute turns fatal, youth hacked to death in Thiruvananthapuram

July 26, 2026 admin

A long-standing neighbourhood rivalry over a boundary dispute allegedly culminated in the brutal daylight murder of a 42-year-old man at Chambakada in Kaithamukku on Sunday. Within hours of the crime, the City police arrested the prime accused, Pradeep, 38, along with three other accomplices. The victim, Vishakh, 42, a resident of Chambakada, was attacked around 1.30 p.m. outside his…

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FIR against actor Sreelekha Mitra for allegedly carrying objectionable poster of PM in CJP rally

July 26, 2026 admin

Actor Sreelekha Mitra. File | Photo Credit: X/@SreelekhaSpeaks She was allegedly carrying a poster with an objectionable cartoon of PM Narendra Modi at the massive students’ rally in Kolkata on Friday Multiple first information reports (FIRs) have been lodged against Bengali actor Sreelekha Mitra across West Bengal on Sunday (July 26, 2026) for allegedly carrying…

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