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Junior doctors hold placards at a protest in Vijayawada. File | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao The Health, Medical and Family Welfare Department, Andhra Pradesh, has fixed the annual stipend hike for medical students at 3.5%, the figure at the centre of the junior doctors’ strike. The Government Order was issued late on Monday (September 21,…
North Korean players prepare for their women’s soccer match against South Korea at the Asian Games on September 21, 2026 | Photo Credit: AP Two members of North Korea’s delegation to the Asian Games in Japan are looking to seek asylum, South Korea’s Monthly Chosun magazine reported on Tuesday (September 22, 2026). Citing a source…
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People hold placards and a banner during a “emergency protest” by civic action group PauseAI UK outside Downing Street in central London on September 16, 2026, after news that AI researcher Jacob Coxon had decided to leave the industry. | Photo Credit: AFP Several experts on a United Nations artificial intelligence committee have warned against…
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As India expands its clean energy capacity, finding land for solar projects is becoming a challenge. This is driving interest in innovative solar solutions that can generate power without needing more land. The recently approved PM Surya Sarovar Yojana (PM-SSY) is a step in this direction, aiming to develop 5,000 MW of floating solar capacity…
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Officials from the PPCC carrying out a characterisation study of single-use plastic waste collected from the Thengaithittu backwaters in Puducherry | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Puducherry Pollution Control Committee (PPCC), in association with the Public Works Department (PWD), Puducherry Municipality, and Green Warrior, the firm entrusted with the task of managing solid waste in…
While Japan gave India a scare but it had more to do with the shortened game on a rank turner that literally made the match into a lottery. (Photo: X/@IndianEmbTokyo) Seasoned spinner Axar Patel choked the inexperienced Japanese batters just in time as India survived a scare to win the rain-curtailed one-off T20 International between…
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Pinarayi Vijayan | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government in Keralam on Tuesday (September 22, 2026) ordered a police inquiry into the politically charged CMRL-Exalogic payoff controversy centring on Leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter T. Veena, and son-in-law and former Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas. …
Indian players celebrate after winning the women’s gold medal T20 cricket game between India and Sri Lanka on September 22, 2026 | Photo Credit: AP The Indian women’s cricket team reasserted its continental dominance by clinching a second successive gold medal at the Asian Games, thrashing familiar foes Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the…
For 28-year-old Y. Bharat, the commute home from Begumpet to Kowkur means negotiating one congested junction after another. The snarls stretch through Paradise, Karkhana, Trimulghery, Alwal and Hakimpet, and it is only after turning towards Kowkur that the drive becomes easier. It is this long, stop-and-go journey that the proposed elevated corridor from Paradise Junction…
Keralam Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan | Photo Credit: RK Nithin The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government in Keralam appeared buffeted on Tuesday by accusations that at least a few of its ministers showed a brazen willingness to accept junkets from vested interests seeking proximity to power. At the heart of the controversy is…