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The Carlos Alcaraz-Jannik Sinner rivalry is no doubt this era’s defining matchup, but it has also been punctuated by long pauses. In early 2025, Sinner was absent for three months as he served a doping-related ban; this season, Alcaraz was out of action for four months from mid-April owing to a troublesome wrist. Just when…
This book cover image released by Alfred A. Knopf shows ‘Belonging: A Journey of Love’ by Sonia Gandhi. | Photo Credit: AP Penguin Random House India announced on Friday (August 28, 2026) that it is not publishing Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s much-awaited autobiography, Belonging: A Journey of Love, with industry sources saying that the publisher…
A drone view of a broken bridge and damaged houses after the flash floods at Devighat, Nuwakot district, on August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll in the Nepal flash floods touched 579 on Friday (August 28, 2026), even as the search for nearly 2,000 missing people continued for the third day…
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Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ola Electric on Friday (August 28, 2026) announced the launch of the all-new S1Z, the first scooter range in India to bring the company’s indigenously developed Bharat Cell LFP technology to the mass market. “The S1Z brings Ola’s indigenous 46 series LFP cell platform technology, developed at…
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President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP Civil rights activists gathered in Washington on Friday (August 28, 2026) in a major show of opposition to Republican redistricting and restrictions on voting being pushed by President Donald Trump ahead of November’s U.S. midterm elections. The “Defend the Vote” march brought protesters to the National Mall…
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Former Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Gen. Zhang Youxia. File | Photo Credit: AP China removed two high-ranking officers from the country’s main military body on Friday (August 28, 2026), state media reported, seven months after it was announced that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were being investigated for “serious violations of the…
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Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin. | Photo Credit: PTI The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Friday yet again witnessed a debate over the State government’s decision to buy new cars for MLAs. The topic became a point of discussion after DMK MLA G.V. Markandayan said the TVK government, which promised “change”, should focus on…
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Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi as a Presidential adviser, state media said on Friday (August 28, 2026), days after Abdi announced the dissolution of his Kurdish forces under an integration deal with Damascus. The Education Ministry also published a decision authorising Kurdish-language…
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Telangana Housing and Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy along with Special Secretary to the Government for the Housing Department V.P. Gautham, Hyderabad District Collector Priyanka Ala, Nampally MLA Majid Hussain and other Housing Board officials, conduct a draw of lots for beneficiary selection under the Indiramma Indlu Towers housing scheme in Nampally, Hyderabad on Friday…
Russian forces on Friday (August 28, 2026) resumed their drone barrage of Ukraine’s Kyiv region, hitting more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots in a second straight day of aerial attacks, officials said. Prolonged air raids in Kyiv on Thursday (August 27) essentially locked down the Ukrainian capital for 15 hours, the Foreign…