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The end came swiftly. It took New Zealand only 51.2 overs to wrap up the England second innings at Trent Bridge. Jamie Smith’s slog against Mitchell Santner ended in the hands of a diving Nathan Smith, running in from long-on. That was not just the end of the third Test. It was also the end…
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File image for representation | Photo Credit: AP Russian strikes killed three people, including a child, in the region surrounding capital Kyiv on Saturday (August 8, 2026), an official said. Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional administration, said Russian strikes were recorded at three locations in the Boryspil district, near the capital. Three more…
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file image | Photo Credit: K K Mustafah The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert for five districts in Kerala on Thursday (July 30, 2026) warning of intense heavy rainfall. Idukki, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur districts were put on the orange alert, while the rest of the State has been placed under…
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A view of the approach route to the Bhogapuram International Airport, located about 45 km from Visakhapatnam. K.R. Deepak | Photo Credit: KR DEEPAK Srikakulam District Collector Swapnil Dinkar Pundkar said on Thursday (July 30, 2026) that 737 buses would be operated from different parts of the district to the international airport at Bhogapuram in…
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A U.S. official on Friday (August 7, 2026) reported progress between Iran and Oman that could soon reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially restoring oil exports that have been disrupted by the five-month-old U.S. war with Iran. The U.S. official, who declined to be identified, said Washington anticipated an agreement soon between the two countries,…
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A petition by the Kerala Police Association (KPA) before the Kerala High Court, aggrieved by an order of the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to re-organise the association and dissolve the Kerala Police Officers Association (KPOA), is set to be considered by the Single Bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas on Thursday (July 30, 2026). The…
After Jason Arday was appointed a professor at Cambridge in 2023, two academics alleged plagiarism in one of his papers. | Photo Credit: AP The political scientist Claudine Gay became Harvard University’s dean of social science in 2018 and, five years later, its first Black president and only the second woman in the university’s 387-year…
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Colombia’s new right-wing President Abelardo De La Espriella was sworn in on Friday (August 7, 2026), using his inaugural speech to pledge a vigorous fight against drug trafficking, as well as austerity measures to restore confidence in the economy. Mr. De La Espriella, 48, won June’s runoff on promises to crack down on armed groups,…
A Russian-flagged oil tanker. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill to punish Russia and key buyers of its petroleum products, such as China and India, claiming that such trade helps fuel the Ukraine war. The bill, renamed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of…
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Moderate to heavy rains lashed several parts of north Telangana in the last 24 hours, bringing cheer to farmers amid El Nino concerns but disrupting normal life in parts of Mancherial and Jagtial districts on Wednesday. Bellampalli mandal in Mancherial district was among the most affected with a tank breaching at Kannala village and inundating…