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Lalit Kumar Gupta (third left), Chairman and Managing Director of Cotton Corporation of India, releasing the souvenir at the bi annual cotton conference organised in Coimbatore city by the Indian Cotton Federation on Friday, August 21, 2026. | Photo Credit: SIVA SARAVANAN S India should make efforts to be a price influencer in the international…
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Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, left, co-chaired the India and United Kingdom Defence Consultative Group (DCG) Meeting with Permanent Under Secretary for Defence of UK Mr Jeremy Pocklington, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and the Permanent Under Secretary for Defence of the United Kingdom, Jeremy Pocklington, on Friday…
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KMRL managing director Loknath Behera said the proposal was made in light of the metro policy, which requires a single, common name when multiple metro projects come up in the same State. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan on Friday (August 21, 2026) said the government has no plans to rename Kochi…
Indian tennis great and current Bengal Tennis Association (BTA) president Leander Paes has applied to join the All-India Tennis Association roster of Sportspersons of Outstanding Merit (SOM), BTA announced on social media on Friday. According to the AITA’s amended constitution, a roster of 20 male and 20 female SOMs will be prepared, and out of…
Minister of State (MoS) for Railways V. Somanna on Friday said the Union government had taken a “historic” decision to fulfil the long-standing demand of the public and rail passengers of coastal Karnataka by bringing the Mangaluru railway region under the South Western Railway (SWR). In a statement, the MoS made it clear that one…
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Santosh Sarangi, MNRE Secretary | Photo Credit: bl-online Administrator The government is working to add 30 gigawatts (GW) of polysilicon manufacturing capacity by 2030 and is working on a subsidy scheme, Santosh Sarangi, Secretary at the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, told reporters on the sidelines of an event here today. Mr. Sarangi…
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Union Minister of State for Science & Technology Jitendra Singh. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Friday (August 21, 2026) said emerging technologies are creating unprecedented opportunities for progress, and called for stronger international collaboration to ensure that innovation remains accessible, affordable, trusted and…
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A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli settlers on Friday (August 21, 2026) after a rock-throwing incident in the occupied West Bank. The Ministry identified the teenager as Karim Sanad Raja Shalaldeh. The teenager’s father told The Associated Press at the hospital that Israeli settlers had killed his son. The Israeli military said soldiers were…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto For the first time, the airport tariff regulator has applied a new formula at Bengaluru airport, cutting the passenger fee by 33% from ₹450 to ₹300 and ensuring travellers pay only for commissioned infrastructure available for use, rather than large projects such as runways…
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Iran said on Friday (August 21, 2026) that its response to any new U.S. threats would be “devastating” after Washington pledged to impose the toughest financial penalties in history with the aim of toppling the Iranian leadership. U.S. Treasury chief Scott Bessent said he would give details on Monday of the planned sanctions, which follow…
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