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Security personnel in riot gear stand guard outside the Election Commission office ahead of a planned protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: AP Shree Keshav Ram Leela Committee president Ashok Goel said the 30-foot effigy symbolises filth and is unrelated to the Cockroach Janta…
The continuing airspace restrictions have affected airline operations between the two countries, forcing carriers to take longer routes on some international flights. Representative file image used. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Pakistan has extended its airspace ban on Indian-registered aircraft and planes owned, operated or leased by Indian airlines for another month, until November 24,…
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Former Srikakulam District Congress Committee president Pedada Parameswara Rao. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Srikakulam District Congress Committee former president Pedada Parameswara Rao on Saturday (October 17, 2026) alleged that thousands of migrant labourers from Srikakulam district had lost their voting right because of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by the…
Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto China has proposed export controls on 12 technologies used to make solar equipment, citing national security concerns, as part of a broader revision that also covers AI and biotechnology. The Ministry of Commerce proposed adding the photovoltaic technologies to China’s export-control list, it said in a statement on…
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Deep within the intestinal wall, beyond where digestion and nutrient absorption occur, are immune outposts called solitary isolated lymphoid tissues, or SILTs. These structures host cells that govern how aggressively the gut reacts to microbes. A weak response lets pathogens take root while an overactive one causes the immune system to attack the gut —…
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A 23-year-old man was arrested by the Marad police and the city crime squad for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman who was returning home on her scooter after work. The accused, Muhammad Aflah, a native of Kundayithode in Cheruvannur, was taken into custody in Cheruvannur following an investigation into the incident, which occurred on the…
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Good Morning, Night City! It has been a few years since Cyberpunk: Edgerunners clinched Anime of the Year, over half a decade since CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 rehabilitated itself from a catastrophic launch into a retrospective videogame masterpiece, and more than forty years since William Gibson first codified this particular dystopia in the seminal…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (October 18, 2026) expressed grief over the loss of lives in an accident in Gwalior and announced ex-gratia relief of ₹2 lakh to the next of kin of each deceased and ₹50,000 for each injured. Thirteen people were killed, and nearly 40 others injured when a truck crashed into…
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Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world’s first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars. Scientists hope the mission, which is expected to take five years, will provide clues to how Phobos and its smaller sibling Deimos formed, and hopefully even shed light…
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Russia and Ukraine are at war on the ground — and two satellites around 550 km above have come to the centre of a similar confrontation. The Russian Cosmos-2612 satellite has changed its orbit repeatedly to approach ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar-imaging satellite registered in the U.S. and whose operator currently supplies radar data to Ukraine….
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