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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe. FIle | Photo Credit: N. Ram The date of Sri Lanka’s presidential election will be announced next week, the country’s Election Commission said on July 19, amid fresh speculation in the wake of a gazette issued by President Ranil Wickremesinghe. Dated July 18, 2024, the gazette notification pertains to amending…
Mumbai: The tiger claw that Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji is believed to have used to kill General Afzal Khan is back in Maharashtra after 350 years. The state government has brought it on loan from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum for three years and put it on display at the Satara in western Maharashtra. The…
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The students said the near-total shutdown of internet services precipitated their return. Agartala: The worsening situation in Bangladesh, which has seen widespread protests for weeks, has forced Indian students to return home using any available means, with over 300 crossing through border points in the northeast on Friday alone. Over 100 people have died as…
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Presiding Judge Nawaf Salam reads the ruling in the International Court of Justice, or World Court in The Hague, Netherlands on July 19, 2024, as the United Nations top court is delivered a non-binding advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. | Photo Credit: AP The…
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Paris Olympics servers suffered an outage.© Reuters The Paris Olympics organising committee said Friday that its operations were “now running normally” following a global IT outage which affected some of its computer servers. “All of Paris 2024’s operations are now running normally, following this morning’s global IT issue, which had temporarily affected a…
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Shane Lowry moved into the lead of the 152nd British Open at seven under par after his second round at Royal Troon on Friday as a tame Tiger Woods limped to 14 over to miss the cut. Woods is not the only big name to struggle in the blustery conditions on Scotland’s west…
The cancellations come amid violent protests in Bangladesh. (Representational) Kolkata: The Indian Railways cancelled the Kolkata-Dhaka Maitree Express on Saturday and Bandhan Express between Kolkata and Khulna on Sunday, an official said. The cancellations come amid violent protests in Bangladesh over demands for an end to a quota system in jobs in the country, affecting…
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Asian Games gold-medallist marksman Ronjan Sodhi on Friday said the Indian shooting contingent’s preparations for Paris Olympics could have been planned in a better way and demanded more say for sportspersons in the running of the national federation. The Olympian double-trap shooter said the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) was late in…
Indian badminton star Lakshya Sen on Friday said he has worked on his net game and the recent trait of conceding points late in a contest as he prepares in Marseille, France for the Paris Olympics starting next week. The world No 19 has been drawn in Group L along with Indonesian rival…
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The protestors set on fire the country’s state broadcaster building yesterday (File) Violent clashes broke out between students and security forces in Bangladesh last month over the newly reinstated reservation system for hiring in civil services. Around 64 people have been killed this week, according to news agency AFP and over 2,500 injured in the…
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