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Rajya Sabha member Y.V. Subba Reddy | Photo Credit: V RAJU Rajya Sabha member Y.V. Subba Reddy has alleged that the alliance party Anakapalli Lok Sabha candidate C.M. Ramesh is bringing rowdyism with his activities to Anakapalli district. He alleged that the recent incident at Chodavaram was an example and people from Anakapalli do not…
“The October 7 attack by Hamas resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people in southern Israel.” Jerusalem: Israel is fighting a “bloody and difficult war”, President Isaac Herzog said in a statement to mark the conflict reaching its half-year mark on Sunday. “Tomorrow at 6:29 am (0329 GMT), we mark six months since the cruel…
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He has been working to outraise each other for months, boasting about each new significant cash infusion. Washington: Major political donors will gather Saturday in Donald Trump’s fiefdom of Palm Beach for a fundraising event that his campaign hopes will mark a new phase in a swaggering, high-stakes race for big money with Joe Biden….
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Democracy is not really one of the ethos of West Africa’s troubled Sahel region, but Senegal’s 2024 presidential election offers a glimmer of hope in a land marred by conflict and unrest. At 44, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected Senegal’s new President — the youngest ever to hold the post — on March 25, barely…
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The female Labour Force Participation Rate had been steadily declining since 2000 and touched 24.5 in 2019, before inching up, particularly in rural areas. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The story so far: The authors of the India Employment Report, 2024, released recently by the Institute for Human Development and the International Labour Organization, point…
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A gunfight at a suburban Miami bar left two people dead and seven injured early Saturday. Investigators said a fight between customers broke out around 3.30 a.m. at the Martini Bar in the CityPlace Doral development in Doral, Florida. When a security guard intervened, an unnamed man took out a gun and shot and killed…
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“I don’t open restaurants, I tell stories,” two-star Michelin chef Jose Andres said in an interview in January. Little could he have imagined back then of the sad chapter that would bookend the story three months later. On the night of April 2, seven workers of his non-profit aid group, World Central Kitchen, operating in…
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Solar panels and solar fans are displayed among other electronics for sale at a shop inside a wholesale electronics market in Kolkata on March 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: To incentivise India’s solar module manufacturing industry, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has brought into effect from April…
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Indian and Sri Lankan pilgrims leave Katchatheevu in March 2023 after attending the St. Anthony’s Church festival. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: On March 31, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on social media platform ‘X’ that he blamed the Congress for “callously” giving away Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka. He cited…
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Participants at the training programme on bat research held recently at KFRI, Thrissur. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Myth, superstition, and zoonotic diseases such COVID-19 and the Nipah virus infection, have created a negative impression of bats. The fallout is that these nocturnal, flying mammals are losing their habitat and their numbers are falling. On…
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