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Mumbai: Bollywood actor Kajol Devgan and Tamil actor Suriya have made India proud yet again. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which hosts the Oscars every year has invited Kajol and Suriya amongst others to become a member of the Academy Class. Taking to social media, the official Twitter handle of The Academy […]
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Hyderabad: Andrew Formica, the chief executive officer of Jupiter Fund Management Plc, took everyone by surprise after he announced he was leaving the £55.3 billion ($67.9 billion) asset management company. The 51-year-old had joined Jupiter in 2019. According to a report on ‘Bloomberg’, he will leave his post on October 1 and will step down […]
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Hyderabad: Monsoon is here and so are woes. Cab drivers demanding excess fares, staying hungry in the office because food delivery sites refused to deliver food, and caught in the worst traffic jam – monsoon miseries are just endless. So, it is better to be well prepared by keeping all the things handy in a […]
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Jagtial: Upset over failure in intermediate examination, a 17 year-old girl committed suicide by jumping into agricultural well in Stambampalli of Velgatur mandal on Tuesday night. According to police, Yagandla Nirosh, who studied intermediate in Dontapur model school, failed in two subjects in intermediate results announced on Tuesday. Disappointed over the results, she took extreme […]
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Washington: The US has said it is having “intensive engagement” with key oil consuming countries, including India, on the specifics of how a price cap on Russian oil imports would work, but the issue was not discussed at the level of President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the recent G7 Summit. The […]
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Guwahati: Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said they are ready for the floor test. He said this after visiting the famous Kamakhya Temple here, along with other four MLAs. The temple management committee welcomed Shinde and other MLAs in the temple. Shinde and other rebel Shiv Sen MLAs have been camping in […]
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Idukki: A 434 metre long letter weighing 5 kilograms was how a Kerala woman placated her younger brother for forgetting to wish him on International Brothers Day this year after he stopped taking her calls and even blocked her on Whatsapp. Realising how hurt her younger sibling, a fourth year engineering student, must have been […]
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Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has asked the Uddhav Thackeray government in the state to prove his majority on the floor of the House on June 30. The Governor has written to the state Assembly secretary to convene a special session of the State Assembly tomorrow with the only agenda of a trust vote […]
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Hyderabad: Popular singer Sunitha Upadrasta participated in the Green Indian Challenge (GIC) initiative of Rajya Sabha, MP, J Santosh Kumar, and planted a sapling at Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Park in Jubilee Hills on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, she stressed the importance of planting and protecting trees to save the environment. The singer […]
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Medak: The Revenue officials of Masaipet Mandal have restored 89 acres and 19 guntas of assigned land to 65 original assignees from Atchampet and Hakimpet villages of Masaipet Mandal after recovering the lands from Jamuna Hatcheries, owned by Huzurabad BJP MLA Etala Rajendar. Jamuna Hatcheries was accused of encroaching upon these assigned lands and following […]
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Peddapalli: Two persons died in a road accident that took place near Gadudulagandi in Kataram road in the outskirts of Manthani on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred when an unknown vehicle hit a two wheeler on which the deceased were traveling. The deceased were identified as Jakkula Kumaraswamy (48) and Perala Vimala (40). According to […]
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New Delhi: Amid a monkeypox outbreak in several countries, researchers here have said that the possibility of the disease becoming a pandemic is low, and that the virus can be contained by strong surveillance, isolation of confirmed cases, contact tracing, and ‘off-label use’ of smallpox vaccines for ‘ring vaccination’. The group of public health and […]
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New Delhi: India reported 14,506 new Covid-19 cases in a span of 24 hours, which is a substantial increase over the previous day’s count of 11,793, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs on Wednesday. In the same period, the country has reported 30 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide toll to 5,25,077. […]
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka BJP has started an online campaign titled “terrorist Congress” in the backdrop of the beheading of a Hindu man in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. The BJP in its online posts stated that “genocide of Hindus is taking place in the Congress-ruled state of India. The incident of Rajasthan is a testament to the fact […]
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Hyderabad: A flex hoarding at Begumpet with a messages “Saalu Modi & Samphako Modi, Bye Bye Modi”, sent police in a tizzy on Wednesday morning. Some unknown persons had put up the flex hoarding at the Begumpet road and in morning the police noticed it. Soon officials rushed to the spot and with the help […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook has announced that it is beginning to test new ways to quickly access your favourite Facebook Groups and simplifying how they are organised. The company said it is also introducing channels, which are focused spaces for people to connect in smaller, more casual settings within their communities. “We are testing a […]
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California: Researchers have measured the stability and infectivity of four variants of SARS-CoV-2 in 5-10 um-wide aerosolized droplets over a period of 5 seconds to 20 minutes and found a reduction in infectivity by around 90% after 20 minutes; loss of infectivity was associated with relative humidity and aerosol pH, providing insight into the mechanisms […]
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Chennai: The 25-hour countdown for the Thursday evening launch of Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying three Singapore satellites will begin at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The mission is code named PSLV-C53/DS-EO. The Indian rocket will carry three satellites — the 365 kg DS-EO and 155 kg NeuSAR, satellites belonging to Singapore and […]
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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government will be launching a special drive to provide insurance coverage to farmers against potential crop damage. The drive, slated to begin from the first week of July by the agriculture department, will be flagged off by Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi. It will cover those development blocks which have lower […]
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Hyderabad: Customs officials at RGI Airport Shamshabad caught a passenger who was smuggling gold into the country. The officials seized 220 grams of gold from him on Wednesday. The passenger arrived from Dubai and had kept the gold pieces in a makeup kit and also gold that was converted into buttons of his kurta. On […]
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Los Angeles: School shootings in the 2020-21 school year rose to the highest number in 20 years, said a new report released. A total of 93 school shootings with casualties occurred at public and private elementary and secondary schools during last school year, including 43 school shootings with deaths and 50 school shootings with injuries […]
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San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned Tesla has reportedly shown exit door to approximately 200 workers from its Autopilot team and closed an office in California, media report says. According to Bloomberg, the majority of those who were let go were hourly workers, said the people, who asked not to be identified as discussing private information. As […]
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New Delhi: Muslim organisations have condemned the horrific beheading of a man in Udaipur and have said that the murder can never be justified. Mushawarat President Navaid Hamid said, “The gruesome beheading in Udaipur is anti-Islamic and an open case of hate crime. Prophet Muhammad had never harmed any body in his entire life. Those […]
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New Delhi: What if there was another way to give love a shot than to swipe on hundreds of profiles online? Well, for those who are app-fatigued or believe in old school meet-cutes, speed dating could be a refreshing change to speed-meet a potential match in a physical setting, on a quick date that’s just […]