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An unidentified gang allegedly broke open an Axis Bank ATM using a welding machine and escaped with ₹11.5 lakh at Gummidipoondi in Tiruvallur district. The ATM centres of Axis Bank and Indian Overseas Bank are located in adjacent buildings on the bypass road in Ma. Po. Si. Nagar, Gummidipoondi. A customer who visited the Axis…
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Ecuador’s former President Lenin Moreno, who is charged with accepting bribes from Chinese company Sinohydro in connection with the construction of one of the country’s hydroelectric power plants, attends a hearing at the National Court of Justice in Quito, Ecuador, on August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Former Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno was sentenced…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman invited global investors to set up manufacturing bases, and technology and innovation centres in India, urging them to leverage talent and opportunity to build for the world. Addressing a high-level Business Roundtable with leading investors and business leaders in Chicago on Friday (August 28, 2026), Ms. Sitharaman highlighted India’s broad-based growth,…
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People affected by flash floods and landslides are airlifted in an army helicopter in Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: Nepal Army/Handout via REUTERS Poor weather hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal on Saturday (August 29, 2026) as the search for hundreds of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods…
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Messages seeking clarification from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were not immediately returned on Friday [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS U.S. officials are correcting earlier statements that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese hackers, now saying that the organisations were among the hackers’ targets. In a newly edited statement, the…
Keralam Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The police have taken Anil Kumar, aka Chenthi Anil, member of the District Congress Committee (DCC), into custody in connection with an incident on Friday (August 28, 2026) where Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan’s convoy was allegedly blocked in the Sreekaryam police station limits in…
In this screengrab from a video posted on Aug. 29, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he boards the flight for Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in New Delhi. Photo: @NarendraModi/X via PTI Photo Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (August 29, 2026) said he was looking forward to advancing India’s vision for the SCO, anchored in…
The return is mainly due to the legalities of human resources policy, which limits the time diplomats may be away from post while still being paid and collecting benefits for themselves and their families. File | Photo Credit: AP American diplomats and at least some of their family members are beginning to return to U.S.embassies…
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The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year received the nation’s highest space honour on Friday (August 28, 2026). President Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honour to the three Americans and one Canadian whose April lunar flyby set a new distance record for humanity. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman…
From the sidelines of the busy junction where Road No.82 meets Road No. 92, one can see a steady stream of vehicles merge from both ways, and proceed towards the Jubilee Hills Checkpost and beyond, towards the Road No. 45. Thousands of vehicles — most of them cars and a few bikes, punctuated by an…
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