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Abhishek Sharma hit nine fours and 11 sixes in his dazzling knock. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Six-hitting is a skill that Abhishek Sharma has honed to perfection. He can make it appear ridiculously easy, as though he is playing around with a joystick in a video game, but make no mistake: few can…
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney shrugged off a threat of U.S. retaliation on Thursday (September 17, 1016) as he pitched a “new alliance” with Europe as a bulwark against outside pressures, in a closely watched address to the European Parliament. Mr. Carney’s speech came after EU chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested Canada could become…
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. | Photo Credit: Reuters After a brief disruption in ties, India and Bangladesh have resumed official-level talks to firm up plans for a visit by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to New Delhi, diplomatic sources have confirmed. Bilateral relations took a hit after the virtual press conference by former Bangladesh Prime…
Nihal Sarin posted the all-important win while Gukesh was held to a draw. | Photo Credit: FIDE Nihal Sarin saved the blushes for India on day two of the Chess Olympiad at Samarkand. His win on the second board was the reason why India, the defending champion, could beat a much lower-rated Indonesia 2.5-1.5 in…
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a media briefing in Beijing that China opposes any action that lacks UN Security Council authorisation. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters China on Thursday (September 17, 2026) rejected the U.S. “long-arm jurisdiction” to impose tariffs on purchases of Russian oil and gas, saying its normal trade and economic…
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A file image of the Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif and the Chinese President Xi Jinping. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan and China have operationalised a joint mechanism for managing their common border, a move rejected by India, which said that the body has no legal basis to decide on arrangements related to Indian territory under…
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CPI (M) and Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front would jointly lay siege to Virudhunagar Collectorate on September 30 pressing their long-pending demand for changing the name of “Paraseri” village to North Achchamthavizhthan. In a statement, the district secretaries, A. Gurusamy (CPI-M) and K. Murugan (front) said that the name Paraseri for the village near Srivilliputtur…
A coal mine in India | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Coal Ministry Thursday formally inaugurated that sixteenth round of commercial mine auctions putting forth 25 blocks, comprising 21 fully explored and four partially explored mines. The mines are spread across nine-coal bearing states including Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana…
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Smoke rises following strikes during ongoing fighting between Houthi and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces along the frontlines in al-Kadha, west of Taiz in western Yemen, on September 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Saudi strikes in Yemen killed one person and targeted three telecommunications towers on Thursday (September 17, 2026), Houthi media said, in the…
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Biotechnology, when I was a student in the early 1970s, was test tubes, pipettes, culture plates and microscopes. Today, however, biotechnology is no longer just a laboratory discipline. It is a platform for technologies that power healthcare, agriculture, industrial manufacturing and environmental solutions. Biotechnology today is an integrated inter and multi-disciplinary science where biology has…
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