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Kolkata Knight Riders players celebrate with the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 trophy after winning the final match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at MA Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai. | Photo Credit: PTI Cyclone Remal makes landfall; one lakh evacuated in Bengal The severe cyclonic storm Remal started its landfall process between Sagar Island in West Bengal…
KKR’s skipper Shreyas Iyer being honoured during the presentation ceremony after the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 final cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad at MA Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai. | Photo Credit: PTI After guiding Kolkata Knight Riders to their third IPL title on Sunday, captain Shreyas Iyer said his side…
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Over 300 people have died over the past week in Afghanistan floods As many as 16 people, including women and children, have died in the recent floods in Baghlan and Badakhshan provinces of Afghanistan, TOLO News reported. According to local officials in these provinces, 500 houses have been completely or partially destroyed in the floods….
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Madrid on Monday, the Spanish government said on Sunday. Both leaders will hold a press conference after the meeting at 12.00 p.m. local time in Madrid, the Spanish government said in a statement. Zelensky…
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Powerful storms killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction on Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. The storms inflicted their worst damage in…
Growing up in the 1990s in India meant having seen an ad for a glucose-based drink on television in which the Sun literally sucks the life-force out of children with a giant straw as they are playing. This ad has started to hit closer to reality. India has increasingly been in the grip of more…
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Offences range from sextortion to abuse of AI to create deepfake videos, pictures (Representational) More than 300 million children a year are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse, according to the first global estimate of the scale of the problem published on Monday. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that one in eight…
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North Korea has notified Japan of plans to launch a satellite by June 4, Japanese media reported Monday citing the coast guard, after Seoul said Pyongyang was preparing to put another military spy satellite into orbit. The Japanese Coast Guard said the eight-day launch window began at midnight Sunday into Monday, with North Korea’s notice…
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Nuclear-armed North Korea launched its first reconnaissance satellite last November (Representational) Seoul, South Korea: North Korea has notified Japan of plans to launch a satellite by June 4, Japanese media reported Monday citing the coast guard, after Seoul said Pyongyang was preparing to put another military spy satellite into orbit. The Japanese Coast Guard said…
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Qiang before their meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on May 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The Japanese and South Korean leaders raised sensitive topics like Taiwan, North Korea and the South China Sea as well as ways to boost cooperation when they…