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“Why Are You Doing This?”: Ex-Pakistan Star Pleads To India Over Champions Trophy 2025

August 31, 2024 admin

India’s visit to Pakistan for next year’s Champions Trophy 2025 remains a mystery.© AFP India’s visit to Pakistan for next year’s Champions Trophy 2025 remains a mystery with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) yet to provide a clarity on their plans. Last year, Pakistan co-hosted the Asia Cup as…

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Pakistan’s ISI complicit with terrorists, says former U.S. National Security Advisor McMaster

August 31, 2024 admin

File photo of former U.S. National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Retd) H.R. McMaster. | Photo Credit: AP There is an “undeniable complicity” of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) with terrorist groups, former U.S. National Security Advisor Lt Gen (retd) H R McMaster has said, revealing that during his tenure under then President Donald Trump, the White…

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Egyptian Worker Killed In Hotel Fight, Israeli Tourists Wounded

August 31, 2024 admin

The fight allegedly broke out between hotel staff and the tourists (representational). Cairo, Egyot: An Egyptian worker was killed Friday in a hotel fight that wounded three Arab-Israeli tourists and other workers in the Egyptian seaside town of Taba, a medical source told AFP. The worker succumbed to his injuries “in an ambulance transporting him…

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Omar Abdullah On Banned Group Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Polls

August 31, 2024 admin

File photo New Delhi: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday said it is a “good thing” that Jamaat-e-Islami leaders are participating in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir elections but fired a salvo at the banned group. While welcoming their participation into active politics, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir said that they…

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The Hindu Morning Digest: August 31, 2024

August 31, 2024 admin

Elon Musk’s social media giant X has clashed with Justice Alexandre de Moraes (in picture) over its reluctance to comply with orders to block users. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Senior ICAR scientists hired laterally without reservation More than 2,700 scientists at India’s top farm research body — accounting for an overwhelming majority of senior-level…

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Devendra Fadnavis Hits Out Over PM’s Shivaji Statue Apology

August 31, 2024 admin

Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister on Friday lambasted opposition for its “pettiness” over the collapse of the Shivaji statue at Sindhudurg after Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologised to the people of Maharashtra who were hurt by the collapse. Speaking to the media on Friday, Fadnavis said, “The opposition is only seeing the politics in the…

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Why are cyclones in the Arabian Sea so uncommon?

August 31, 2024 admin

The North Indian Ocean supplies a large part of the moisture required to generate the 200 lakh crore or so buckets of water during the summer monsoon. That implies a lot of evaporation from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, which requires these seas to be warm enough to allow evaporation. This is…

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SpaceX Falcon 9 may resume flights while FAA probe underway

August 31, 2024 admin

This image created from a SpaceX video, shows the moment when the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage fell over in flames after landing on an ocean platform offshore, in the Atlantic Ocean on August 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: SpaceX/AP The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of…

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Akal Takht Declares Akali Dal Chief Sukhbir Badal Guilty Religious Misconduct

August 31, 2024 admin

Sukhbir Singh Badal said he will soon appear before the Akal Takht to apologise. Amritsar: The Akal Takht on Friday declared Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal ‘tankhaiya’ — guilty of religious misconduct– for the “mistakes” committed by his party and the party’s government from 2007 to 2017. Soon after the declaration, Mr Badal…

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Mpox outbreaks in Africa could be ended in 6 months, WHO chief says

August 31, 2024 admin

Photo used for illustration purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) believes the ongoing Mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months, and said on Friday (August 30, 2024) that the agency’s first shipment of vaccines should arrive in Congo within days. To date,…

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