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Teachers, parents worry over lack of clarity on three-language policy

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Teachers, parents worry over lack of clarity on three-language policy

Parents and teachers are frustrated with confusion regarding the implementation of the three languages for Class IX and X in CBSE schools as the deadline to begin approaches. Practical difficulties, lack of student agency, and last-minute stress to learn a new language are just some of the challenges said educators in implementing the circular. While…

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FIFA World Cup 2026 | Explosive France meets consistent Senegal

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FIFA World Cup 2026 | Explosive France meets consistent Senegal

Target men: Senegal’s Mane and France’s Mbappe will be tasked with scoring the goals. | Photo Credit: AFP Twenty-four years is a long time in football. Yet, when France and Senegal meet at the MetLife Stadium on Tuesday, the events of a June evening in Seoul will inevitably return to the conversation. The fixture carries echoes of one…

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Heatwaves and ozone together increase India’s cardiac deaths: study

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Heatwaves and ozone together increase India’s cardiac deaths: study

During the heatwave days of 2024, it links about 26,500 deaths from ischaemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to ozone exposure. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu While surface ozone — a pollutant harmful to the heart and lungs — already exceeds safe limits across much of India in the hot pre-monsoon…

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Bangladesh PM’s adviser returns from Delhi airport; says he was ‘humiliated’ by immigration

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Bangladesh PM’s adviser returns from Delhi airport; says he was ‘humiliated’ by immigration

Zahed Ur Rahman holds the rank of a State Minister in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government. File Photo: Facebook/Zahed Ur Rahman  After Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s Information and Broadcasting Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman returned from Delhi airport following what Dhaka described as “humiliating treatment”, official sources here said that Mr. Rahman was “held” on…

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Displaced Kashmiri Pandits seek structured engagement, genocide recognition, and property recovery

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Displaced Kashmiri Pandits seek structured engagement, genocide recognition, and property recovery

People participate in a protest and raise slogans during a protest over various demands for displaced Kashmiri Pandits, in Jammu. File | Photo Credit: PTI Kashmiri Pandits who were displaced from their homes in the Valley have been touring the State to gauge if conditions are suitable for the community’s return. On Monday (June 15,…

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Limited traffic through Hormuz, despite Trump’s announcement

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Limited traffic through Hormuz, despite Trump’s announcement

Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman on June 15, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Announcing the peace deal with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had authorised the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the removal of the U.S. naval blockade. He later indicated that ships were already…

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Three months on, family of custodial torture victim refuses to receive his body

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Three months on, family of custodial torture victim refuses to receive his body

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday (June 15, 2026) posted the matter for compliance to Tuesday. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO More than three months after Akash Delison, 26, died following alleged custodial torture by the police, his family on Monday (June 15, 2026) refused to receive his body from the mortuary of…

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Pentagon chief denies U.S. facing munitions stockpile shortage

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Pentagon chief denies U.S. facing munitions stockpile shortage

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to enlistees after they swear an oath to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, during an Enlistee Recognition Ceremony at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., U.S. June 4, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz | Photo Credit: ELIZABETH FRANTZ U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied that the American…

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After India trip, Myanmar President Min arrives in China on five-day visit

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After India trip, Myanmar President Min arrives in China on five-day visit

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing, center arrives in Beijing for a state visit on June 15, 2026. Photo: Dai Tianfang/Xinhua via AP Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing arrived here on Monday (June 15, 2026) on a five-day visit for talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and…

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Congo reports large daily jump in Ebola cases a month after outbreak was declared

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Congo reports large daily jump in Ebola cases a month after outbreak was declared

A health worker disinfects the area around a treatment center under construction at the General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, on June 15, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Congolese authorities have reported one of the highest daily increases in Ebola cases in a month-old outbreak as the virus spreads quickly in a remote region whose shifting…

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