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Baillee and Exhalt excelled when the horses were exercised here on Saturday (Aug. 29) morning. Inner sand: 600m: Coffee At Eleven (Prasad) 42. Easy. Pentimento (app), Snow Sky (Shelar) 42. Pair level. Axlrod (T.S. Jodha) 38. Moved well. 800m: Exhalt (Merchant) 51, 600/38. Pleased. Red Merlot (Avinash) 55, 600/40. Easy. 1000m: Organised Chaos (Ramswarup), Rizz…
Mandalay, Haniel and Sigrid pleased when the horses were exercised here on Saturday morning (August 29) Inner sand: 600m: Manterio (Anish) 39.5. Strode out well. Rocking Star (Anish) 40. Stretched. Quantum (Guruprasad) 39. Pleased. 1200m: Edison (Guruprasad) 1-24, 1,000/1-8.5, 600/39. Moved well. Iron Mirage (Chetan) 1-20.5, 1,000/1-7, 600/40. In fine trim. Outer sand: 600m: My…
Minister for Social Justice Vanni Arasu. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Tamil Nadu government has decided to set up a ‘safe house’ in every district so as to provide security to individuals and families vulnerable to and affected by ‘honour’ killings or caste killings and related violence. Making the announcement in the Assembly on…
A drone photo shows a suburb in Niamey, Niger. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Heavy gunfire and explosions were heard overnight into Saturday (August 29, 2026) morning in Niger’s capital of Niamey, including near the main airport and in an area housing the Presidential palace, according to an Associated Press witness and local media. Sustained…
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This image is used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A collision between a minibus taxi carrying church members and a haulage truck killed 27 people on Friday (August 28, 2026) in Zimbabwe, a police spokesperson said, in the latest road disaster to hit the southern African country. Paul Nyathi, the police…
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A police official speaks to a taxi driver outside Dadar railway station, after the Maharashtra government began enforcing a requirement that auto rickshaw and taxi drivers demonstrate a working knowledge of Marathi, making language proficiency a condition for continuing work, in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Bombay High Court on Saturday (August 29,…
Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces and Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir. File | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir on Saturday (August 29, 2026) visited the country’s largest defence industrial complex to see its production and export capabilities. Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF) in Wah is located about 41 km west of…
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file image | Photo Credit: H. Vibhu Despite a persistent shortfall in rainfall this monsoon season, the storage in the reservoirs of Keralam’s hydroelectric power projects have shown considerable improvement in recent weeks. The combined storage, as on August 28, stood at 63% of the total capacity, or equivalent to 2,601.34 million units (mu). The…
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The death toll in the Nepal flash floods continues to rise, as search efforts continue for over 2,400 missing people, three days after the disaster struck. Inside Kathmandu’s National Trauma Centre, the atmosphere is heavy with confusion, raw hope, and growing dread. Exhausted families clustered around hospital pillars, desperately searching lists of rescued survivors for…
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee along with party MPs Kalyan Banerjee, Babul Supriyo and Dola Sen during the foundation day of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, in Kolkata, West Bengal, on August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI The Kolkata Police on Saturday (August 29, 2026) registered a suo motu FIR against former West Bengal Chief…