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Regional, caste calculus in BJP’s West Bengal Cabinet choices

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and members of the cabinet of the West Bengal government, in Kolkata on Saturday (May 9, 2026). | Photo Credit: ANI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has weighed regional and community considerations while allocating ministerial berths in its first Cabinet in West Bengal. Along…

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Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam: a new political dawn in Tamil Nadu

May 10, 2026 admin

Stellar debut: TVK leader C. Joseph Vijay greets his supporters at a rally in Thanjavur in March this year. In its electoral debut, the party earned about a 35% vote share, a feat that even AIADMK founder M.G. Ramachandran could not manage in 1977. | Photo Credit: R. Vengadesh On the day of polling in Tamil Nadu (April 23, 2026), a senior civil servant,…

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NTPC Simhadri launches month-long residential workshop for girl empowerment

May 10, 2026 admin

NTPC Simhadri has launched the Girl Empowerment Mission 2026 for 130 students. File | Photo Credit: Reuters National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Simhadri launched its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, the Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM)-2026, with an inaugural ceremony at Sakuntalam Hall. The four-week residential workshop is aimed at building leadership, confidence and overall development…

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Tamil Nadu government formation: Know the TVK Ministers in C. Joseph Vijay’s Cabinet

May 10, 2026 admin

Tamil Nadu’s new Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay was one of Tamil cinema’s biggest stars, who had dominated Kollywood for the past nearly 30 years. He made his debut as a lead actor in his father S.A. Chandrasekhar’s Naalaya Theerpu in 1992, after appearing as a child actor in Vetri in 1984. Over a career…

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Government working on FTA utilisation plan to maximise benefits for businesses

May 10, 2026 admin

Union Minister Piyush Goyal. File | Photo Credit: ANI With India signing a series of free trade agreements with developed countries, the government is working on an FTA utilisation plan to help maximise benefits from these pacts, an official said. Since 2021, India has finalised free trade agreements (FTAs) with Mauritius, Australia, the UAE, Oman,…

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Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Spain’s Canary Islands

May 10, 2026 admin

A cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands Sunday (May 10, 2026), where most of the nearly 150 people on board will be evacuated and flown home after weeks at sea. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius arrived at the Spanish port of Granadilla escorted by a Civil Guard vessel, AFP…

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Global study reveals how psychedelics dissolve the brain’s hierarchy

May 10, 2026 admin

For decades, people using psychedelics have described a feeling where the line between ‘me’ and the world vanishes. While it is clear these drugs cause intense shifts in vision and thought, scientists have struggled to pin down exactly what the brain is doing. A new multi-centric study published in Nature Medicine on April 6 has…

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Delhi on high alert over possible terror threat, security upped across key locations

May 10, 2026 admin

A file image of Delhi Police standing guard in Delhi. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The national capital is on high alert following intelligence inputs indicating a possible terror threat. This prompted the Delhi Police and other security agencies to intensify vigil across several sensitive locations, sources said on Saturday (May 9, 2026). A source…

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Twelve Pakistani police officers killed in car bombing and shootout

May 10, 2026 admin

A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officer and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP A car bombing at a police post…

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Increase pace of works at Zaheerabad NIMZ: Sangareddy Collector

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The NIMZ is proposed to be spread around 12,300 acres, of which around 7,000 acres were acquired. It is being established for heavy industries to set up large scale units. | Photo Credit: Mohd Arif Sangaredry Collector Prateek Jain issued directions to increase the pace of development works at National Institute of Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ)…

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