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Qantas To Pay $66 Million Fine After Ghost Flights Scandal

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Qantas To Pay Million Fine After Ghost Flights Scandal

Qantas will also fork out $13 million in compensation to 86,000 travellers impacted by the cancellations. Sydney, Australia: Australian airline Qantas agreed to pay a $66 million fine Monday after a bruising “ghost flights” scandal, following accusations it kept selling seats on long-cancelled trips. The country’s competition watchdog said Qantas “admitted that it misled consumers”…

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MBBS Student Appears As Proxy Candidate In NEET, Detained With 5 Others

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MBBS Student Appears As Proxy Candidate In NEET, Detained With 5 Others

. All the accused are being interrogated and further action will be taken in due course, police said. Jaipur: An MBBS student who appeared in place of a NEET aspirant in the medical entrance exam on Sunday was detained along with five others, including the candidate, in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur, police said. Preliminary investigation revealed that…

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Congress Office In UP’s Amethi Attacked, Cars Vandalised

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Congress Office In UP’s Amethi Attacked, Cars Vandalised

Police force has been deployed at the site of the incident. Amethi: The Congress party office in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi was attacked by some unidentified miscreants around midnight on Sunday. The miscreants vandalised several vehicles parked outside and fled after creating a ruckus, triggering a protest by party workers. Following the incident, Congress District President…

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Schools, Colleges Shut For 2 Days After Rain, Hailstorm Hit Parts Of Manipur

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Schools, Colleges Shut For 2 Days After Rain, Hailstorm Hit Parts Of Manipur

Heavy rain, accompanied by hailstorms, struck several parts of Manipur on Sunday. Imphal: Due to intense rain, all educational institutions in Manipur will remain closed on Monday (6th May) and Tuesday (7th May), said Chief Minister N Biren Singh. “All schools and colleges will remain closed on 6th May and 7th May, 2024 due to…

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Hezbollah attacks Israel after deadly south Lebanon strike

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Hezbollah attacks Israel after deadly south Lebanon strike

Smoke rises above Lebanon, following an Israeli strike, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Israel’s border with Lebanon in northern Israel on May 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Official media in Lebanon said an Israeli strike on May 5 on a southern village killed four family members, with…

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Where does ‘us versus them’ bias in the brain come from?

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Where does ‘us versus them’ bias in the brain come from?

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” — this line from George Orwell’s 1945 classic ‘Animal Farm’ perfectly describes how bias operates in human societies. In a study published in May last year, psychologists explored how people subconsciously evaluate different racial groups. They screened responses from more than 60,000 participants belonging…

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Israeli Authorities Raid Al Jazeera Office After Shutdown Order Over Israel-Hamas War In Gaza

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Israeli Authorities Raid Al Jazeera Office After Shutdown Order Over Israel-Hamas War In Gaza

Al Jazeera said the move was a “criminal action” (File photo) Jerusalem: Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station’s local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters. Video circulated online showed…

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