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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the Delhi government’s decision to require an endorsement from the local MP or MLA for women seeking benefits under the ‘Delhi Lakshmi Yojana’, which provides financial assistance of ₹2,500 a month. A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said such an endorsement could not…
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The Supreme Court directed the Department of School and Higher Education to integrate, with immediate effect, both theoretical and practical knowledge on solid waste management for students to train their family members, and also train teachers as trainers. Representational image. | Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan A concerned Supreme Court has turned to Gen Z…
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Unnati Hooda’s World championships debut ended in a three-game defeat (21-11, 19-21, 21-23) to 13th seed Michelle Li in the second round on Wednesday. She took the opening game comfortably, but the deciding game went down to the wire, with Unnati admitting that a handful of errors proved costly. “I feel like in between two…
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Sindhu broke no sweat during her victory over Zhang. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar When Garret Tan took a medical timeout leading 17-16 in the decider, it looked like Lakshya Sen would finally get the stroke of luck he so desperately needed. Instead, the 18-year-old American of Taiwanese descent would jump, smash and punch…
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Harmanpreet and Abhishek did the heavy lifting for India. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It was, at times, too easy for the Indian men even if they weren’t at their best. India reiterated the gulf in class between it and neighbour Pakistan with a 5-3 win, punching its ticket into the second round of the…
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The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation (CMC) on Wednesday (August 19) took up road repair works at several locations. | Photo Credit: @CMC_Offcl on X The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation (CMC) on Wednesday (August 19) took up road repair works at several locations, with engineering teams attending to potholes and damaged bituminous concrete (BT) and cement concrete (CC)…
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Padikkal was named the Player of the Match. | Photo Credit: PTI The charge of the young brigade helped India defeat Sri Lanka in the first Test. Devdutt Padikkal, 26, and Manav Suthar, 24, were the prime architects of this demographic bonus rippling with vitality. Playing his third Test, Padikkal was expected to be both…
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SEBI determines a deviation from the average price to be at a maximum of 3% in the CAS. All of Copthall buy orders were above this mark. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hours after SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey warned CAS manipulators of strict consequences, the regulator released an Ex-Parte interim order pulling up two investment…
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A view of the High Court of Karnataka The High Court of Karnataka has refused to quash criminal proceedings against a married man accused of abetting a 22-year-old woman’s suicide by repeatedly stalking and threatening her, and sabotaging her marriage prospects by allegedly claiming to prospective grooms that he was in a relationship with her….
Abu al-Duhur airbase following strikes, Syria. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Turkish delegation had visited an air base in northern Syria the day before it was hit by Israeli airstrikes, Syrian officials said. The Israeli strikes hit the Abu Duhur base early Tuesday (August 18, 2026), hours after the delegation had left, causing damage but…