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One of the boxers at the centre of a widening gender scandal at the Paris Olympics won her opening bout on Friday to reach the quarter-finals. Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting beat Sitora Turdibekova from Uzbekistan on a unanimous points decision in the women’s 57kg class. Lin, 28, is at the centre of a storm…
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772 train services, including 100 Vande Bharat services, have been introduced in 5 years. New Delhi: As many as 772 train services, including 100 Vande Bharat services, have been introduced in the Indian Railways network from 2019-2020 to 2023-2024, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Rajya Sabha today. The railway minister’s written response came after…
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Mr Shivakumar said he has a long list of irregularities. Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Shivakumar stated on Friday that there is a conspiracy hatched against him to put him in prison. Speaking to reporters, after the ‘Jan Andolan Sabha’ organised to counter BJP’s ‘padayatra’ at Bidadi on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Mr Shivakumar said,…
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New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has chosen the youngest of its astronaut-designates as the prime astronaut to fly on the upcoming Indo-US mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The prime astronaut will be Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla who recently got promoted. A ‘prime astronaut’ is one who is chosen to fly,…
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The news could not have been more dramatic- just hours after Palestinian leader and Hamas Political chief Ismail Haniyeh had met with the new Iranian President, and attended President Pezeshkian’s inauguration, the Iranian guard IRGC announced he had been killed- while there is still some confusion over how he died- with Iran blaming Israel for…
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The report said many cases of tiger deaths were superficially classified as infighting. A day after NDTV published an exclusive report on a concerning surge in Madhya Pradesh tiger deaths, a prominent wildlife activist has called for a CBI investigation into the matter and the state government has assured action. The report, which was based…
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Skipper Harmanpreet Singh scored a brace as the India men’s hockey team registered a famous 3-2 win over Tokyo Games silver medallist and nemesis Australia in its final Pool B match in Paris on Friday. Already assured of a quarterfinal berth before Friday’s encounter, the Indians played valiantly and dominated the proceedings for…
While Hamas Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in Iran’s capital Tehran mere hours after the swearing-in ceremony of President Masoud Pezeshkian has created shockwaves across the world, the response to the killing is expected to be imminent, and, possibly, tectonic. Haniyeh was, after all, the political chief of a group labelled a terror entity by…
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A senior leader of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was shot dead in Lahore while he was coming out of a mosque after offering Friday prayers, police said. “Dr. Shahid Saddique Khan was coming out of a mosque in Valancia Town in Lahore after offering Friday prayers when four unidentified men…
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Vampire stars, known as blue straggler stars (BSS), defy simple models of stellar evolution and show many characteristics of younger stars. Photo: PIB Team of astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have made the discovery that a vampire star has been rejuvenating its youth by sucking up material from a companion in the…
