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Mystica shone when the horses were exercised here on Saturday (Oct. 17) morning. Inner sand: 600m: Sacred Flash (Aditya), Silver Dynamite (app) 39. Pair moved level freely. 800m: El Moran (rb) 56, 600/42. Easy. Shivalik Superstar (S. Kamble) 55, 600/42. Moved freely. Horizon (S.J. Sunil) 55, 600/42. Worked freely. 1000m: Dash (Aditya), Rogue (Zeeshan) 1-6,…
Sheikh Nawab inspecting wigs made for Durga idols. | Photo Credit: Senjuti Sengupta Maa Durga’s thick black, wavy hair always catches the eyes of spectators across pandals in West Bengal during the puja festival every year. However, not many are aware that these tresses are woven by Muslim artisans from Howrah’s Parbatipur village in the…
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Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday (October 17, 2026) said an oil tanker was on fire in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting a mine in the waterway at the heart of the West Asia war. Tehran seized control over Hormuz after the start of the…
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Sri Lanka suffered an islandwide power outage from around noon on Saturday (October 17, 2026), with the blackout continuing for more than three hours, power officials said. Water supplies, internet services and mobile connectivity were affected as authorities worked to restore electricity across the island in stages. The outage disrupted essential services, with the water…
Images of Pope Leo XIV rest at the base of a statue of Pope St. John Paul II at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where Pope Leo is hospitalised, in Rome, on October 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Leo XIV is being released from the hospital on Saturday (October 17, 2026), four days after…
Yashoda Hospitals organised a cyclothon from its Secunderabad facility to Necklace Road in Hyderabad on Sunday, to raise awareness about arthritis. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Yashoda Hospitals organised a cyclothon from its Secunderabad facility to Necklace Road in Hyderabad on Sunday to raise awareness about arthritis and highlight the importance of physical activity and…
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The exercise followed three previous rounds held in December 2025, March 2026, and June 2026 Source link
At least 10 people were killed and nine injured on Saturday (October 17, 2026) in a fire at a seaside resort in the south-eastern Bangladeshi district of Cox’s Bazar, officials said. The fire broke out around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday at TUPTUP Resto and Resort in Cox’s Bazar’s Inani, according to Mohammad Atikur Rahman Majumder,…
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Congress MP and the party’s Media Committee chairman Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Congress MP and the party’s Media Committee chairman Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy has questioned the allegations — pertaining to irregularities in tender allotments and delays in bill payments — made by RVM Constructions in a letter to the…
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COLOMBO Militarisation of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority north and east persists 17 years after the end of the civil war, despite many state assurances to reduce the military footprint in the former conflict zone, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has said. In a recent report titled ‘The Human Rights Situation of the Northern and…