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Days after a wall of water and debris ripped through Nepal, Shanti Lamichhane sat on a fruit crate in the dirt where her village once stood, staring at what remained of her home. Nepal flash floods LIVE: August 30, 2026 Across Nepal’s flood disaster zone, survivors are returning to villages reduced to mud and debris,…
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South Korea unveiled a major cabinet reshuffle on Sunday (August 30, 2026), naming First Vice Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il as the new deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance. The administration also tapped ruling Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Seung-won to lead the Ministry of Justice, and named Kang Shin-chul, former deputy Commander of…
AAP leader Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi was shot dead by four armed assailants here, police said on Sunday (August 30, 2026). The four car-borne assailants got down from their vehicle in the main bazaar of Mamdot in Ferozepur on Saturday (August 29) evening and opened fire towards the car in which the 45-year-old Singh was…
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An emotional Roger Federer said he was still writing his love letter to the sport that “meant the world” to him on Saturday (August 29, 2026) as the 20-time Grand Slam champion was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. Federer, who was inducted alongside broadcaster and journalist Mary Carillo,…
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Alia al-Hallaq’s son Mohammed was nine when he was killed by an Israeli Army bullet last October, but the Palestinian homemaker still speaks of herself as a mother of five, not four. “I still haven’t accepted the idea of the loss. I often sit in the courtyard of the house and look at Mohammed’s grave…
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People marry into money. Adbul Rahman married into “Atho”. And the latter situation translates to money saved by the plates. “I have never had to pay for a plate of Atho after marriage,” Rahman chuckles. Rahman is the son-in-law of Abdul Ajeez, whose eponymous Ajeez Atho Shop at Arrababu Street off Rajaji Salai in George…
Autorickshaws at an IGL fuel station in New Delhi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ANI Transport unions in the national capital have demanded an immediate increase in autorickshaw and taxi fares after Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) raised the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) by ₹3.89 per kg from 6 a.m. on Saturday in Delhi-NCR….
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In this photo taken from a video released by Russian Defence Ministry press service, Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, right on the red carpet, is welcomed by North Korean Defence Minister No Kwang Chol in 2024. | Photo Credit: AP North Korea’s Defence Minister has been dismissed as part of a reshuffle of the country’s…
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The extraordinary velocity and scale of the flash flood in the Bhotekoshi River at around 8.40 a.m. on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) have left more than 600 dead and close to 2,500 missing, including foreign nationals, mostly from India. The Nepal government promptly got into action, mobilising personnel from the Nepal Army, Nepal Police and…
Delhi High Court. File picture | Photo Credit: ANI The Delhi High Court has held that street vendors holding provisional Certificates of Vending (CoVs) cannot claim a right to fixed vending sites. A Bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Vikas Mahajan said the demand for fixed vending sites under provisional CoVs could not…