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Himanta Biswa Sarma said police seized 637.28 gms of heroin contained in 50 soap boxes Guwahati, Assam: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday lauded state police after it intercepted a vehicle and recovered 637. 28 grams of heroin in Karbi Anglong District. The driver has been arrested, the Chief Minister informed. “As part…
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Chennai: Reacting to the arrest of the BJP functionaries over the removal of a flagpole in Chennai, BJP leader DV Sadananda Gowda said that “injustice” was meted out to the BJP cadre and that illegal and unethical investigation was done by the DMK. The BJP leader also said that the issue had been positively acknowledged…
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A model of a memorial building that Bangladesh is making for Indian soldiers who participated in the 1971 Bangladesh War. P A memorial to honour the Indian soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 at Ashuganj in Bangladesh is in the advanced stages of completion. It will have the…
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Manoj Sinha said development can happen when there is peace in a region (File) Jammu and Kashmir: Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Saturday said that there has been a “change in people’s thinking” in the Union Territory and people “want peace and tranquillity”. He also said that “development can happen when there is…
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Illustration for The Hindu | Photo Credit: Satheesh Vellinezhi This week, the U.S. House of Representatives finally succeeded in electing a Speaker, after more than three weeks of a leadership crisis in the chamber, the deleterious outcome of which was the stalling of important bills relating to federal government finances and congressional funding and support…
At least 10 people are reportedly missing after the storm hit on Wednesday (Reuters) Mexico: Acapulco was struggling Saturday to recover from an extraordinarily powerful hurricane which claimed 39 lives and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages. As aid finally began to arrive after Hurricane Otis’ devastating landfall Wednesday, the government upped the latest…
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Benjamin Netanyahu said this is the second stage of a war whose goals are clear (File) Tel Aviv, Israel: Israel’s war on Gaza militants will be “long and difficult”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Saturday as Hamas demanded the release of all Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the hostages it seized three weeks ago. The…
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With Israel intensifying its bombardment of Gaza, in which more than 7,700 people were killed in 22 days, fears of a wider regional war are also rising. Israel started bombing Gaza, a tiny, defenceless enclave of 2.3 million people, who have been sandwiched between Israel proper and the Mediterranean Sea, after Hamas, an Islamist militant…
Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar said they are ready to conduct an immediate prisoner exchange Gaza Strip: Hamas’s leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, said Saturday that the Palestinian militant group was ready for an “immediate” prisoner swap with Israel. “We are ready to conduct an immediate prisoner exchange deal that includes the release of…
A mock-up of the Prospero on display in London’s Science Museum. | Photo Credit: Geni What were you doing when Chandrayaan-3 created history by landing near the south pole of the moon? This is one question that you might keep encountering throughout your lifetime. It is human nature to link, associate and talk about what…