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A plaque for “Mammoth”, the new plant of Swiss start-up Climeworks is pictured in Hellisheidi, Iceland on May 8, 2024. A Swiss start-up unveiled on May 8, 2024 its second plant in Iceland sucking carbon dioxide from the air and stocking it underground, scaling up its capacity tenfold with the aim of eliminating millions of…
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File picture of Kolkata Knight Riders players Sunil Narine and Andre Russell during a practice session ahead of an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 cricket match | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK Kolkata Knight Riders will look to extend its recent run of success when it returns home after securing two emphatic away wins. KKR hosts…
U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller. | Photo Credit: AP The United States on May 9 dismissed the Russian allegations of the US interfering in the ongoing Indian elections. “No, of course, we don’t involve ourselves in elections in India as we don’t involve ourselves in elections anywhere in the world. Those are decisions for…
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S Jaishankar said Sam Pitroda’s remarks reflected a certain kind of thinking, a “colonial mindset”. New Delhi: Sam Pitroda’s controversial comments were not a slip of the tongue but revealed the mindset of his Congress party and that of the people he has mentored, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in a veiled reference to…
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The exclusion of Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer from the list of centrally-contracted players was a decision that was solely taken by chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar, BCCI secretary Jay Shah has revealed, asserting that “nobody is indispensable”. Kishan and Iyer were left out after failing to show up for domestic engagements despite a directive…
New Delhi: AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi took on the Congress’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday after she accused the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP of “working directly with the Bharatiya Janata Party” and helping the ruling outfit by splitting votes in key constituencies. Referring to Rahul Gandhi’s shock 2019 defeat – he lost the Congress bastion of…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin arrive for a meeting with members of the government in Moscow, Russia May 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappointed Mikhail Mishustin as Prime Minister for the lower house’s approval. Parliament Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the house, the State Duma, will…
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S Jaishankar said the world would witness a “very very stormy” churn for the rest of the decade. New Delhi: The world will witness a “very, very stormy” churn because of conflicts, power shifts and sharpening competition in this decade, which makes it all the more important for India to have a stable and mature…
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The Congress today distanced itself from senior party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remarks that India should respect Pakistan so that they don’t drop an atom bomb on us. “Indian National Congress dissociates itself completely from and disagrees totally with some remarks made by Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar few months back which have been revived today…
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Granting such parole, the court cautioned, would set a detrimental precedent. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has held that Indian law, including the Delhi Prison Rules, does not permit the grant of parole to a convict solely for the purpose of maintaining a conjugal relationship with a live-in partner, especially when the convict is…