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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli airstrike on Sunday (September 13, 2026) killed at least two Palestinians in a vehicle and wounded 13 others in the Gaza Strip, medical staff said. The strike in the Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood in western Gaza City left the vehicle mangled, according to footage…
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The BRICS should leverage its close ties with emerging markets and Global South to safeguard supply chains, and foster a large integrated market, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday (September 13, 2026) as he proposed a five-point initiative to boost trade, manufacturing, investment, and technology cooperation. In an address at the concluding session of…
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Kapil Sibal proposed that the Tenth Schedule should be reworked so that a merger would simply mean a merger of political parties and not a mass walkout by legislators. File | Photo Credit: ANI Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal suggested that anyone who changes their political party during an active term should be disqualified from…
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The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently released a 125-page policy document titled ‘Science: A New Golden Age’, which presents a renewed vision for American science. It positions itself as a sequel to the American inventor Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report, ‘Science: The Endless Frontier’, which laid the foundations of the famously successful…
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Swedes were voting in a closely fought election on Sunday (September 13, 2026) that will either bring a far-right party into government for the first time or shift the country back towards the liberalism it has long been known for. Sweden’s centre-left opposition holds a narrow lead over the ruling right-wing bloc ahead of the…
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M. Veerapandian. File | Photo Credit: S. Shivaraj The two Left parties — Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) — have decided to contest the ensuing byelections to the Dharapuram and Madurantakam Assembly constituencies without aligning with any other formations. CPI will contest the Dharapuram seat, while the CPI(M)…
Mocha’s name comes from Al-Mokha, a Red Sea port city steeped in trade in the late Middle Ages and still contested today, as the Houthis, or Ansar Allah, who control northern and northwestern Yemen, hold onto this strategic redoubt. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto With every sip of a mocha, caffeine fiends ingest a slice…
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari addresses the ‘Gerua Samman Yatra’ at Jadavpur, in Kolkata. File | Photo Credit: ANI West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said people have the constitutional freedom to choose their food habits and religious practices, in an apparent response to godman Dhirendra Shastri, popularly known as Bageshwar Baba, over his…
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Tibetan community members stage a protest march against the visit of China’s President Xi Jinping for the BRICS Summit 2026, in New Delhi on September 11, 2026 | Photo Credit: PTI As many as 64 members of the Tibetan Youth Congress were detained by Delhi Police on Saturday (September 12, 2026) night after they stormed…
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Two baby orangutans, who were recently rescued from Balasore district, play with soft toys in a quarantine cell at the Nandankanan Zoological Park, in Khordha district, Odisha. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Odisha government constituted a five-member technical committee to oversee the care of five baby orangutans rescued from Balasore district, officials said…
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