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Sanju Samson and Yuzvendra Chahal on Tuesday made it to India’s provisional squad for the T20 World Cup thanks to strong IPL performances but Shubman Gill and the big-hitting Rinku Singh were relegated to the reserves group as selectors went with the tried and tested for the marquee event in June. The BCCI announced the…
Israeli emergency personnel work as they respond to a report of a stabbing attack, in Jerusalem April 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Turkish national on April 30 stabbed an Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem and was then shot dead by officers at the scene, Israeli police said. The border policeman was moderately wounded….
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This photo released early April 30, 2024, by the U.S. military’s Central Command shows construction off a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Strip. | Photo Credit: AP A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore…
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A sign sits amongst plastic on a public art installation outside a United Nations conference on plastics on April 23, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario. | Photo Credit: AP Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks finished early on April 30 in Canada. For the first time…
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Environment Ministers from the G7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S., pose for a photo during of Minister’s Meeting On Climate, Energy & Environment on April 29, 2024 in Turin, Italy. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Energy Ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies agreed on Tuesday to…
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The volcano sent a tower of ash more than five kilometres (3.1 miles) into the sky Manado, Indonesia: Indonesia’s remote Mount Ruang volcano erupted several times on Tuesday, authorities said, issuing the highest level of alert and ordering thousands of people to evacuate due to the threat of a tsunami from debris sliding into the…
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File photo of KL Rahul© AFP The India squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 is here and the 15-member squad was filled with surprise exclusions. KL Rahul was the biggest name to miss out completely as the selectors went for Sanju Samson and Rishabh Pant as the specialist wicket-keeper options. In the recent…
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The Rupee had settled seven paise lower at 83.45 against the U.S. dollar on April 29. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Rupee recovered four paise to 83.41 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on April 29, tracking foreign capital inflows and a strengthening greenback against major crosses overseal. According to forex analysts, the domestic currency…
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File picture of a multicolour 10 Polish Zloty coin marking Poland entering the European Union is presented by the National Bank of Poland in 2004. The Finance Minister in Poland’s pro-European Union government says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency. | Photo Credit: AP Twenty years after joining the European…
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Pandalaneni Sivaprasad. Katari Jagadish. Anantha Lakshmi. Syed Anwar. Challa Eswari. These not-so familiar names are going to get a lot of spotlight. They are the working class people who have been named the star campaigners by the Jagan Reddy Mohan party for the elections, possibly a first anywhere. “Amid a popular trend of enlisting film…
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