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IMA president RV. Asokan. FIle | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on Tuesday (August 27, 2024) said the Indian Medical Association (IMA) president R V Asokan’s unconditional apology published in a newspaper over his “damaging” statements in an interview to PTI was illegible and the font miniscule. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and…
Pakistan slumped to a humuliating 10-wicket against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi. Spinners Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Shakib Al Hasan took seven wickets between them to secure Bangladesh’s maiden win over Pakistan in five-day cricket, a stunning 10-wicket victory in the first Test in Rawalpindi on Sunday. Mehidy grabbed 4-21 and Shakib 3-44 to trigger…
UTT 2024: G Sathiyan in action© UTT Both Dabang Delhi TTC and Athlead Goa Challengers will have a point to prove when they meet for the first time in Ultimate Table Tennis 2024 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Wednesday. Led by Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, the team from Delhi has lost both its ties…
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. File. | Photo Credit: AP Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was charged Tuesday (August 27) with sedition over a speech he made that allegedly questioned the integrity of the country’s previous king. Mr. Muhyiddin, who led Malaysia from March 2020 until August 2021, pleaded not guilty in a…
File photo of Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R C Bhargava | Photo Credit: PTI India has proven the ‘fallacy’ of incompatibility of rapid economic growth and a democratic political system, and the continuity of government and policies give industry the confidence of sustained high growth, Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R C Bhargava said on Tuesday…
The embezzlement led to the collapse and FDIC takeover of the bank. (Representational) A former chief executive officer (CEO) of a US bank has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison for embezzling $47 million in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme. According to CNBC, Shan Hanes, the former Heartland Tri-State Bank CEO, fell…
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The story so far: On August 24, NASA said Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule that took astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS), as part of its first crewed test flight, wasn’t safe enough to transport them back. Instead, NASA extended Williams’s and Wilmore’s stay onboard the ISS until February 2025,…
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USA’s Major League Baseball catcher, Danny Jansen, registered a never-seen-before feat in the sporting world, as he went on to play for two teams in the same match. It all started when Jansen was batting for the Toronto Blue Jays on 26 June against Boston Red Sox, but the game was soon suspended…
An FIR has been registered and police are scanning CCTV footage to zero in on the accused Mumbai: A 19-year-old nursing trainee was raped, allegedly by an auto-rickshaw driver, in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district. According to preliminary information, the victim had taken an auto-rickshaw ride home when the driver offered her drinking water. The water was…
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Sri Lanka’s main Marxist partry leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka’s main Marxist leader and a key presidential hopeful in elections next month pledged on Monday (August 26) to selectively welcome foreign investors, especially in green energy, if he wins. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, a 55-year-old former agricultural minister and vocal…
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