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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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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…
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,…
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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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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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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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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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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Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters China said on Monday (June 15, 2026) that strengthening its military is beneficial to world peace, slamming a think tank report that warned the threat of a direct strike by Beijing on Australia was increasing. A Lowy Institute report said on Sunday (June 14, 2026) that China is…
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K. Haneesh Veera Reddy, Vizag Lions. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Vizag Lions brought an end to the Visakhapatnam leg of Andhra Premier League with a 67-run win against Vijayawada Sunshiners at the ACA-VDCA Stadium on Sunday. Lions got too a strong start thanks to K. Haneesh Veera Reddy’s unbeaten half century (79 n.o., 40b,…
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