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Qatar fans during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group B match between Qatar and Switzerland at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium. Image for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP Qatar brought a cheering section to the World Cup by treating a large contingent of supporters to an all-expenses-paid trip to North America. Some…
Sea Cadet Corps performing on the RK Beach Road during the International City Parade. File | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak The Sea Cadet Corps (SCC), Visakhapatnam Unit, has invited applications from schoolchildren for its 2026 batch. According to a press release, boys and girls aged 10 to 12, born between August 1, 2014, and July 31, 2016, and…
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The story so far: On June 14, Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s speech at Stanford was disrupted as over 100 students walked out in protest. Some carried Palestinian flags, others draped black-and-white patterned keffiyeh as scarves, and they shouted, “Free, free Palestine!” The students were protesting against Google’s Project Nimbus, a tech contract between the search…
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Sri Lanka’s Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) launched the Kumari Jayawardena Feminist Archive, marking the 95th birthday of one of South Asia’s foremost feminist scholars, whose contributions to the study of labour, ethnicity and nationalism, women’s history and movements, are internationally acclaimed. The archive aims to collate and showcase Dr. Jayawardena’s published work —…
The Secunderabad Cantonment Board approved the renaming of several roads bearing colonial-era names, replacing them with names of war heroes, national icons and locally significant landmarks. Photo for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Roads named after British military officers in the Secunderabad Cantonment will soon bear the names of Captain Vikram Batra, Major…
South Korea players train in Guadalajara, Mexico, on June 17, 2026 | Photo Credit: Reuters Mexican military forces intercepted and brought down a drone that flew near the South Korean national football team’s training camp ahead of its World Cup match against Mexico, a federal official told The Associated Press on Wednesday (June 17, 2026)….
Thick plumes of smoke with flames rise from an oil refinery following what the authorities say is a Ukrainian drone strike in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Moscow, Russia, on June 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine hit a Moscow oil refinery for a second time in a week and disrupted commercial flights…
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The 500 kilos of marijuana seized from the SUV by the EAGLE force. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A night-long pursuit through the forests of Odisha ended with the seizure of 500 kg of marijuana after Telangana’s anti-narcotics unit, EAGLE, intercepted a vehicle suspected of transporting the contraband towards supply networks linked to the State….
Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Several leading private hospitals across Kerala are being raided simultaneously by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as part of its probe into alleged money-laundering linked to a suspected organ trade racket busted by the State police in Kochi last month. Sleuths from the Kochi zonal unit of…
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TMC MLA Ritabrata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: ANI Calcutta High Court on Thursday (June 18, 2026) refused to stay the decision of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose to recognise rebel Trinamool Congress MLA Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition instead of Trinamool chairperson Mamata Banerjee’s choice, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay. “No prayer for…