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The excise duty rates on petrol and diesel for domestic consumption remains unchanged. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar In the latest fortnightly review, the government late on Monday (June 15, 2026) increased the export duty on diesel to ₹14 per litre and that on export of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to ₹12.5 per litre…
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Some victories fade with time. Others grow larger than the moment itself. More than four decades on, India’s triumph at the 1983 World Cup belongs firmly in the latter category. For an entire generation, it was the day Indian cricket discovered what was possible. For those that followed, it became the moment that changed everything….
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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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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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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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