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File picture of China’s President Xi Jinping. | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s President Xi Jinping made a rare visit to a province facing Taiwan following military exercises that mobilised China’s navy, air force, missile force and land troops to simulate a blockade of the self-governing island democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory and…
Paris: Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world’s food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday. “Nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world’s food production are now in areas where total water storage is projected to decline,” said the…
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Islamabad: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar took a leisurely morning stroll within the Indian High Commission campus in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday. He was on an official visit to Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation conclave. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Mr. Jaishankar stated, “A morning walk together with colleagues of Team…
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Policemen stand guard beside torched vehicles during a demonstration to condemn the alleged rape of a female student in Lahore on October 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Senior directors of a Pakistan college said on Wednesday there was no evidence that a student had been raped on campus after reports that spread online sparked days of…
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Buenos Aires: British singer Liam Payne, a former member of the group One Direction, died Wednesday aged 31 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Argentina, police in Buenos Aires said. “Liam James Payne, composer and guitarist, former member of the band One Direction, died today after falling from the third floor…
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New Delhi: In a late night post by the Ministry of External Affairs, India affirmed its stand on the massive diplomatic row with Canada. Putting the responsibility of the disastrous diplomatic fallout squarely on Justin Trudeau, the foreign ministry reiterated that “Canada has presented us with no evidence whatsoever”. In its terse-but-sharp response to Mr…
Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images A Saudi artist has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison over political cartoons that allegedly insulted the Gulf kingdom’s leadership, his sister and a rights group said this week. The case against Mohammed al-Hazza, 48, adds to concerns about freedom of expression under Crown…
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The truck was at a high speed when the accident happened, the police said. (Representational) Jaipur: Three men were killed when a truck hit a car while overtaking it on the Delhi-Mumbai Express National Highway in Alwar district of Rajasthan in the early hours on Wednesday, police said. The truck was at a high speed…
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The bench observed that appellant hails from a poor nomadic community in Maharashtra. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty of a man, who murdered his pregnant daughter for performing an inter-caste marriage against her family’s will and sentenced him to 20 years in jail instead. A bench of Justices B…
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Case has been registered, say cops (Representational) Thane: Police have arrested three persons and are on the lookout for another in connection with the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl in Thane city, an official said on Wednesday. Four persons targeted the teenager and her cousin when they were walking on a road along a…
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