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The latest lawsuit focused on allegations that TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance violated a federal law that requires kid-oriented apps and websites to get parental consent before collecting personal information of children under 13. File | Photo Credit: Reuters TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending…
Marilingaiah, a farmer from Karnataka’s Kuntanahalli village in Maddur taluk of Mandya district, has raised a nursery of paddy seedlings on his two-acre plot. He is waiting for water to reach his fields, which lie at the tail end of the Visvesvaraya irrigation canal system. The canal draws water from the Krishna Raja Sagara (KRS)…
The State Government had announced the implementation of the scheme to present one-gram gold rings to babies born in government hospitals from June 22, 2026, onwards. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Work orders have been issued to Joyalukkas and Kalyan Jewellers in a 70:30 ratio for the supply of one-gram gold rings under the State…
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Nagaland’s Department of Power signs a power purchase agreement with a Pune-based firm for the first private-sector solar power plant in the State. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Nagaland government on Friday (August 21, 2026) signed a power purchase agreement with a Pune-based firm to develop a 20-megawatt solar power plant at Tizit in…
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Sreeja Akula serves in her final qualification round win in Kanpur on August 21, 2026. | Photo Credit: Amol Karhadkar Minutes before the Under-17 boys’ and girls’ finals at the UTT National Ranking Table Tennis tournament at The Sportz Hub on Friday (August 21, 2026), Sreeja Akula was completing her final qualification-round match. The India…
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Mumbai police rescued 13 minors on Tuesday (August 18, 2026), sent by their relatives to find a job and handed them over to a manager, who allegedly employed them in forced labour at a garment factory. Two suspects were arrested. A case has been registered at Charkop Police Station under Sections 75 and 79 of…
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Indian javelin ace Neeraj Chopra produced his best performance in more than a year but was pipped to the post by the rising Sri Lankan star Rumesh Pathirage for the top spot by a mere nine centimetres in the Lausanne Diamond League meet in Lausanne on Friday (August 21, 2026). The 28-year-old Chopra’s 88.05m throw…
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INS Mangrol, the third of the eight anti-submarine warfare shallow watercraft (ASW SWC), indigenously designed and constructed by Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), was delivered to the Indian Navy on Friday. The delivery protocol was signed by Harikrishnan S., Director (Operations), CSL, and Commander U. Sharan Kumar, Commanding Officer (Designate), INS Mangrol. The vessel, which was…
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Safai Karmachari Andolan workers along with the family members of the people who were killed in sewer and septic tanks, stage a protest to demand an immediate stop on killings of workers in sewers and septic tanks. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The National Commission for Safai Karmacharis (NCSK) will introduce a missed call…
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday alleged that Lieutenant-Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu had not granted its leaders time for a meeting despite multiple requests regarding alleged irregularities in the procurement of medicines, bicycles and rice. Later in the day, AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), seeking an inquiry…
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