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Manush and Manav are ranked No. 3 in the world heading into the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP India’s World No. 3 men’s doubles pair of Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah will head into the Asian Games as the country’s strongest table tennis medal prospects, carrying with them the lingering disappointment of a near-miss…
A major controversy has erupted at the Mandapam Sri Lankan Tamil Rehabilitation Camp after Sub-Collector Kalai Mannan allegedly threatened to ‘hit a refugee with a slipper’ when he inquired about a pending leave application. Over 1,500 Sri Lankan Tamils, who fled to Tamil Nadu due to the civil war and economic hardships in their home…
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For illustration | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has extended the deadline for submitting bids for deepwater and ultra-deepwater blocks under the 10th and 11th rounds of the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) by nearly two months until November 15. The revised deadline replaces the earlier September 17 cut-off. Bidding…
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Smoke rises during Houthi missile and drone strikes on the Red Sea port city of Mocha, Yemen, on August 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday (August 10, 2026) took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni…
Some 2,000 km away from their natural habitat in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, five listless baby orangutans were found, bafflingly, in a forest in the middle of Odisha on Tuesday. Videos that were shared widely, showed the critically endangered apes, each around a year old, with limited mobility, huddled together, chomping on bananas…
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Spread across 44.2 acres in Nalbari district’s Danguapara, about 65 km northwest of Guwahati, the unit is PepsiCo’s fifth foods manufacturing plant in India. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Food and beverage manufacturer PepsiCo on Thursday (September 10, 2026) opened its first foods factory in the Northeast, a geographically-challenged region not among India’s preferred investment…
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Magnus Carlsen. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Magnus Carlsen is fond of R. Praggnananandhaa. Even after the Chennai Grandmaster beat him twice at the recent Norway Chess tournament in the World No.1’s hometown, Oslo. “I am a fan,” Carlsen said. “I love watching him. He plays in a very aggressive way. It has been working…
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Kolkata-based Ramakrishna Forgings that supplies forged, machined and fabricated products is investing ₹250 crore to ₹300 crore this year in multiple production facilities. Chaitanya Jalan, Joint Managing Director, said the company is investing ₹170 crore to manufacture components for passenger vehicles in Jharkhand. This will be commissioned in March- April next year. It will also…
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Mohammed Mustafa, a mechanical engineer in his 50s, returned to his family in the city after working overseas for 20 years. After returning, he along with his brother, built a house in New Decent Colony of Budvel just two years ago. “The house has my 20 years of sweat and blood in it. Now, the…
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Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “An IndiGo flight from Lucknow to Dammam in Saudi Arabia made an emergency landing at the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday evening (September 10, 2026) following a bomb threat but nothing suspicious has been found on board so far,” police said. “The flight 6E97 landed at the Sardar…