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Yadgir: Six members of a family, including a baby, were killed during a head on collision between a car and lorry in Karnataka’s Yadgir district. The accident took place late Thursday night near Gurmitkal town. The deceased have been identified as Mohammad Majar Hussain (79), Noor Jahan Begum (70), Mohammad Wajid Hussain (39), Heena Begam (30), […]
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New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that all the institutions in the country are being controlled by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). While launching an attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said that even “Hitler used to win elections”. “Hitler had also won elections, he too used to win elections. How did […]
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New York: Nearly 1.7 million men who have sex with men face the biggest threat from monkeypox in the US, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates show. According to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, gay and bisexual men who are HIV positive face the greatest health risk from monkeypox, CNBC reported. Men taking medicines, called […]
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New Delhi: PVR Cinemas unveiled its most recent advancement in the in-theatre advertising field since its recovery from the pandemic. To increase brand interest, it has implemented 270-degree on-screen experiential in-cinema advertising for the first time in India. Maruti Suzuki is the first marketer to use this platform to introduce the brand-new Maruti Suzuki Brezza […]
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Mumbai: HDFC Ltd has announced the completion of the USD 1.1 billion Syndicated Social Loan Facility for the financing of affordable housing in India. The loan has been priced 90 basis points over Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). “Affordable housing is a critical component of quality infrastructure as also a growth driver for the real […]
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Mumbai: Filmmaker Karan Johar had a Freudian slip on the recent episode of his massively popular chat show ‘Koffee With Karan’. During the episode, KJo asked a question to Kareena Kapoor Khan and in that moment he had a rare slip of tongue that made its way to the final cut of the episode. Kareena, […]
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Birmingham: India would have won a gold medal in long jump at the 2022 Commonwealth Games here but for a laser-equipped take-off board that twice flagged Murali Sreeshankar by extremely narrow margins for crossing the line and committing a foul. Earlier, the take-off board was monitored manually with an official sitting close to the board […]
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San Francisco: Google-owned streaming platform YouTube is testing a new feature in its mobile app with its premium subscribers that allows them to zoom in on any video. The latest opt-in experimental feature enables a pinch-to-zoom gesture for videos — and it works both in portrait and full-screen landscape view, reports The Verge. According to […]
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Washington: The federal government declared a public health emergency Thursday to bolster the response to the monkeypox outbreak that has infected more than 7,100 Americans. The announcement will free up money and other resources to fight the virus, which may cause fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and pimple-like bumps on many parts of the body. […]
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Hyderabad: Telugu film shoots remained suspended for the fourth day on Thursday even as leading producer Dil Raju made it clear that they don’t intend to stop shootings for months. After a meeting of the Telugu Film Chambers, Dail Raju said that he has no personal agenda and that he is working only for the good […]
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Hyderabad: The TRS extended it’s support to the Opposition parties’ candidate Margaret Alva in the ensuing polls to the Vice-President’s post. The party President and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao took a decision in this regard, the party secretary general K Keshava Rao said in a release. Accordingly, all the 16 TRS MPs will cast […]
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New Delhi: Bollywood star Ranveer Singh has been invited by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India to do a nude photoshoot for them after pictures from the actor’s recent similar photoshoot created quite a buzz. The organisation wants Ranveer to promote veganism through their campaign with the tagline ‘All Animals Have the […]
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Mumbai: Equity benchmarks began the trade on a positive note on Friday in tandem with largely firm Asian markets and ahead of the RBI’s policy meeting outcome. The 30-share BSE benchmark climbed 227.89 points to 58,526.69 in early trade. The broader NSE Nifty advanced 64.35 points to 17,446.35. Among the Sensex constituents, UltraTech Cement, Bharti […]
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Mumbai: The rupee appreciated 46 paise to 78.94 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s policy meeting outcome. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 79.15 against the American dollar, then touched 78.94, registering a gain of 46 paise over the last close. On […]
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Athletics and Para Athletics Women’s 100m Hurdles Round 1 – Heat 2: Jyothi Yarraji: 3.06 PM Women’s Long Jump qualifying round – Group A: Ancy Edapilly: 4.10 PM Women’s 200m semifinal 2: Hima Das – 12.53 AM (on Saturday) Men’s 4x400m relay round 1: 4.19 PM Badminton (starts at 3:30 PM Ist) Women’s doubles round […]
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Mancherial: A bridegroom, his friend and family members had a miraculous escape as a car in which they were travelling went up in flames at Andugulapet village in Mandamarri mandal on Thursday night. Mandamarri Sub-Inspector Chandrakumar said that bridegroom Jadi Rajesh hailing from Kaghaznagar town in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district was travelling by the car […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday raised the benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 5.40 per cent to tame inflation. With the latest hike, the repo rate or the short term lending rate at which banks borrow has crossed the pre-pandemic level of 5.15 per cent. This is the third […]
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Birmingham: India had a mixed day in the 2022 Commonwealth Games squash competitions here on Thursday with Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Saurav Ghosal winning their match while Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu getting knocked out in the Round of 16 matches at the Birmingham University Hockey and Squash Centre here. There was success for […]
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New Delhi: With 20,551 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,41,07,588, while the active cases declined to 1,35,364, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,26,600 with 70 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The […]
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Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ruled that victims under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are entitled to compensation only on conviction of the accused and not merely on filing of FIR or submission of the charge sheet in the court. The high court also ordered to […]
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San Francisco: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is beginning the international expansion of non-fungible tokens (NFT) support on its photo and video-sharing platform Instagram. The expansion follows the social network’s initial NFT test launch in May. With this expansion, users and businesses in more than 100 countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East […]
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San Francisco: After several media outlets reported that Elon Musk may soon get to build his private airport outside of Austin, Texas, the tech billionaire denied the rumours and said it “would be silly”. On the microblogging site, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO slammed the plans to develop a new private airport, mentioning that the news […]
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Washington: Four US police officers have been arrested and charged over the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, an African-American woman who was killed in her home in Kentucky in March 2020 during a “no-knock” search warrant. The federal indictment announced on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick Garland accuses the four officers — Joshua Jaynes, Kelly Hanna […]
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Birmingham: India’s Murali Sreeshankar clinched the silver medal in the Men’s Long Jump final with a mark of 8.08m at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Thursday. Sreeshankar won the historic silver with a distance of 8.08m in the Men’s Long Jump, becoming the first Indian male athlete to win a Commonwealth Games […]
