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A still from the web series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’. | Photo Credit: PTI Pooja Kataria, a passenger on the IC-814 flight hijacked in 1999 says viewers should approach the recently released web series based on the incident as entertainment rather than sparking controversy. Sharing her review of the Anubhav Sinha directorial limited series…
The fire started in the early hours of June 14, 2017 (File) The UK’s Grenfell Tower fire disaster that killed 72 people was the result of “decades of failure” by government and construction industry bodies and the “systematic dishonesty” of building material firms, a damning final report said on Wednesday. The fire in the early…
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Reliance. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Reliance Industries has won a bid under an incentives program which supports EV battery production, a statement from the Indian government said on Wednesday (September 4, 2024). Earlier this year, seven companies submitted bids to set up local manufacturing units for the production of advanced chemistry cells, or ACCs,…
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Bhavina Patel in action© X (Twitter) India’s challenge in women’s singles table tennis at the Paralympics ended here on Wednesday after Tokyo edition’s silver-medallist Bhavinaben Patel lost to China’s Ying Zhou 3-1 in the class 4 quarterfinal. Bhavinaben, who became India’s first-ever medal winner in the sport with her silver in the Tokyo…
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Kumari Selja — seen as a contender for the top job in Haryana in case of a Congress victory in the coming assembly election — told NDTV today that there are “always possibilities in the country”. But she amended that comment with “it is the decision…
Mrs. Birla, it’s only been a few days since the Paris Olympics concluded and the Indian contingent returned with a total of six medals. But why does a country with a population of over 1.4 billion people get just six medals in Olympic Games? Is it just a lack of skill or does…
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). | Photo Credit: Reuters Stock markets closed lower on Wednesday (September 4, 2024) with Nifty taking a breather after a 14-day winning run and Sensex dropping by 202 points due to weak global trends on worries of potential slowdown in the U.S. market. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 202.80 points or…
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Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Parents of children and teenagers have long been warned about the dangers of screen time and digital devices before bed – the worry being that screens could harm the sleep patterns of young people. But do screens really hurt the length and quality of…
Home Minister Amit Shah announced signing of peace deals with two Tripura rebel groups Guwahati: Two insurgent groups in Tripura have agreed to give up arms and join the mainstream in a historic peace agreement signed with the Centre and the state government. With the singing of this agreement, Tripura is left with no insurgent…
Veteran Sharath Kamal and star female player Manika Batra were on Wednesday named in the India squad for the 27th Asian Table Tennis Championships, scheduled to be held in Astana, from October 7 to 13. Sharath, the 42-year-old who recently featured in his fifth and last Olympics, is the captain of the men’s…