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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has urged the BJP-led central government to withdraw GST on life and medical insurance premiums, saying that it adversely affects people’s ability to take care of their vital needs. The Trinamool Congress chief is the latest to criticise the move announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Budget….
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee settled 2 paise lower at 83.75 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar in a range-bound trade on Friday as massive sell-offs in domestic as well as global equity markets negated gains from a weak American currency. The Indian currency resisted the fall due to…
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What is inflation? In simple terms, inflation refers to an increase in the price of goods and services over a period of time. To illustrate, if five chocolates cost Rs 10 in 2020 and if the price went up to Rs 15 in 2024, it simply means that the cost of chocolates has increased over…
Mutilated body parts of two persons were recovered yesterday. Shimla: Rescue operations were underway on Friday to trace over 45 people missing following flash floods triggered by cloudbursts in three districts of Himachal Pradesh, officials said on Friday. With the recovery of three more bodies, the death count due to the flash floods in the…
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US Vice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s 2021 comment about “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made” has set the cat among the pigeons. Well, not so much among pigeons, but certainly among a lot of women who have come out breathing fire that he dared to make…
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This marks the latest strike in Hollywood after union writers and actors marched on the picket lines Striking video game voice actors and motion-capture performers held their first picket on Thursday in front of Warner Bros. Games and said artificial intelligence was a threat to their professions. “The models that they’re using have been trained…
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The Paris Olympic Games remain embroiled in a huge controversy ever since the ‘gender row’ erupted in women’s boxing. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has been categorised as a ‘biological male’, after her opponent Angela Carini, from Italy, decided to abandon the game after just 46 seconds. Several renowned personalities, including Elon Musk, have…
Tulika Mann in action© X (Twitter) Indian judoka Tulika Mann crashed out of the women’s 78kg event at the Paris Olympics after going down in the opening round to London Games champion Idalys Ortiz of Cuba in Paris on Friday. The 25-year-old from Delhi, a silver medallist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, lost…
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in Yu-ting currently holds the third rank in the Elite Women 54-kg feather global standings. Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting has found herself in the eye of a storm after a gender eligibility debate jolted the Paris Olympics 2024. Who is Lin Yu-ting? Lin Yu-ting, the three-time world championships medallist, will kick off her Paris Olympics…
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The medical student, in her early 20s, hailed from Nagpur. (Representative pic) Nagpur: A second-year MBBS student of a private medical college in Maharashtra’s Wardha district jumped to her death from the dean’s office over some issues with attendance, an official said on Friday. The student of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, affiliated with the Datta…
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