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Imphal: A top militant was arrested in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, the Assam Rifles said on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Assam Rifles, Territorial Army and Manipur Police nabbed the chief of militant group United Tribal Revolutionary Army (UTRA) from Dampi village on Tuesday, it said in a statement. A .22 pistol […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based rural technology startup Hesa announced acquisition of Pune-based GullyBuy, a digital market technology platform, based out of Pune. The deal size is not disclosed. GullyBuy’s software helps consumers compare local/city merchants to buy products. With this, Hesa will include last-mile sales enablement on its platform more efficiently. Founded in 2019, GullyBuy offers technology […]
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Hyderabad: Two persons, including a woman, were murdered in separate incidents in the city on Wednesday. In the first incident, Maheshwar Rao was hacked to death allegedly by his friend Chitti Babu at Gachibowli in the early hours. In the second incident, an unidentified woman was murdered by unidentified persons at a secluded spot in […]
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Chennai: The man synonymous with actor Jeetendra’s blockbusters in the 1980s, veteran director-producer T. Rama Rao passed away in Chennai during the early hours of Wednesday. He was 83. Rama Rao had helmed 70 films in Telugu and Hindi, besides bankrolling blockbusters in Tamil. A resident of Chennai’s T. Nagar neighbourhood, Rama Rao died at […]
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San Francisco: Swedish music streaming service Spotify has quietly shut down its Greenroom Creator Fund, a live audio app creator fund it had announced for creators last year with much fanfare. The company had promised that the creator fund would begin payouts “later in summer” 2021 to the creators in the US, according to Podnews. […]
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Washington: In his defamation trial against former wife Amber Heard, actor Johnny Depp took the stand in a Fairfax, Virginia court, saying he has never “struck any woman” in his life. “Truth is the only thing I’m interested in. Lies will get you nowhere, but lies build upon lies and build upon lies. I’m obsessed […]
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Cupertino: Nearly 20 percent of all material used in Apple products in 2021 was recycled, the highest-ever use of recycled content, the company has announced. For the first time, certified recycled gold was used in the plating of the main logic board and wire in the front camera and the rear cameras of iPhone 13 […]
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Kyiv: A viral video on the internet of a Ukrainian soldier beating death by a whisker is awing the netizens. A smartphone saved #Ukrainian soldier’s life pic.twitter.com/FstoqrTJov — Giorgi Revishvili (@revishvilig) April 19, 2022 It all took a mobile phone to block the bullet to save the life of the soldier in the war-torn country. […]
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Bengaluru: Almas A.H., a second PUC (Class 12) student from Udupi Girl’s Pre-University College, one among the six girls who started a protest on hijab in Karnataka which went on to become a major crisis in the state, has said that it was not ‘just to deny’ education for a piece of cloth. Her post, […]
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Mumbai: Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s acclaimed period drama “Gangubai Kathiawadi” is set to premiere on Netflix on April 26, the streamer announced on Wednesday. The Hindi film, headlined by Alia Bhatt in the title role, released in cinemas on February 25. Netflix India shared the date announcement of the film’s digital release on its official […]
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Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices bounced back on Wednesday after falling for five straight sessions, with the Sensex climbing 324 points in early trade, helped by recovery in Infosys and HDFC twins along with buying in Reliance Industries. Besides, a largely positive global market trend boosted investor sentiments. Halting its five-day fall, the BSE benchmark Sensex […]
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New Delhi: Life in showbiz is mostly about red carpet events, glamour and entertainment, but to get that glammed up look every time, there are countless hours spent sweating it all out at the gym. These B-town celebs not only just look well-maintained and perfectly fit; they are the glam masters who can slay it […]
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Suryapet: Two persons died in a road accident at Thimmapuram of Jajireddygudem mandal in the district. The road accident took place when two lorries coming in opposite direction collided with each other. Two persons, who were travelling in the lorries, died on the spot in the incident. More details about the incident are yet to […]
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New Delhi: With 2,067 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,47,594 while the active cases increased to 12,340, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,22,006 with 40 fresh fatalities being reported from Uttar Pradesh, the data […]
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Khammam: Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to the family of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activist, who died by suicide in the Khammam district of Telangana. Shah, in a telephonic conversation with the family of the deceased, expressed condolences and assured justice. BJP activist Sai Ganesh died by suicide allegedly due to harassment by […]
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Anakapalle: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized Ganja worth more than 2 crores in the Anakapalle district of Andhra Pradesh, said a press release by the DRI on Tuesday. According to the statement, the officials acted upon a specific input about a substantial quantity of cannabis also known as Ganja being transported by one […]
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Navi Mumbai: Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul on Tuesday surpassed batter Virat Kohli and became the fastest Indian to score 6000 T20 runs in terms of innings. Rahul achieved this feat during the clash against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Tuesday, here at Dr DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai. He reached the milestone in 179 […]
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San Francisco: Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its shares to plunge 25% in extended trading amid concerns that the pioneering streaming service may have already seen its best days. The company’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March period, according to its quarterly earnings report released […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president KT Rama Rao on Tuesday wondered if the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is above the law of the land. He was reacting to a report about VHP threatening to launch a battle against the Delhi Police if any action is taken against its activists in connection with the […]
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By Pramod K Nayar When Sue Coe, a celebrated artist known for her activist-art against animal cruelty in works like Factory Pharm (2001), set out to capture the horrors of Covid-19, she did so with a realism that can only be termed traumatic. What Coe does is to align human suffering from the virus with the history […]
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India’s expenditure on healthcare accounts for just over 1.17% of the GDP, one of the lowest in the world. It also has one of the lowest health workforce in the world. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the gaps in the country’s healthcare infrastructure and should ideally serve as a wake-up call to revamp the sector […]
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Hyderabad: The women entrepreneurship hub called WE Hub in Telangana has successfully completed four years of existence and aims to spread its offerings deeper and wider. The incubator that focuses on women-led startups plans to expand its offerings to various districts of Telangana and on the other hand it is also planning to move international […]
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Navi Mumbai: Faf du Plessis’s 96-run knock and Josh Hazlewood’s four-wicket haul helped Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Lucknow Super Giants by 18 runs here at the Dr DY Patil Stadium. Chasing a 182-run target Lucknow Super Giants did not get the best of start as they lost their wicket-keeper batter, Quinton de Kock, for 3 […]
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Kumram Bheem Asifabad: The districts of Nirmal, Adilabad and Mancherial present a dichotomous picture as far as the laying of roads is concerned. The pace of works in respect of National Highways in these districts is quite fast, as environmental clearances are given without much ado; the same alacrity is not shown in giving clearances […]
