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Container Ship with 17 Indian Crew Seized by Iran

April 13, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 13: A cargo ship owned by Italian-Swiss Shipping group MSC with 25 crew members including 17 Indians, has been seized by the Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the UAE coast on Saturday and was headed towards the Iranian territorial waters, official sources said. Sources said the container ship MSC Aries was […]

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First FIR Lodged in Electoral Bond Scheme by CBI for Alleged Bribery

April 13, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 13: As the first fall-out of the Narendra Modi government’s electoral bond scheme, which the Supreme Court has declared “unconstitutional” and stopped, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an FIR for alleged bribery case against a Hyderabad-based company which was the second biggest buyer company of the electoral […]

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Olympic 2024: Injured, triple jumper, Rojas Yulimar is out of the Paris Games

April 13, 2024 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 13: Venezuelan triple jumper Rojas Yulimar, who underwent surgery on Thursday, will miss the Olympic Games set to start in Paris in July. The 28-year-old had injured her left Achilles tendon during a training session in Spain. In the statement released on Instagram on Friday, she said “My heart is broken and I want […]

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Pakistan: Broke Islamist country has the highest cost of living in Asia

April 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With a whopping 25 percent inflation rate—lower now, because it was nearly 40 percent last year!—a nearly bankrupt Pakistan has the highest living cost in Asia and its economy may grow at the fourth lowest pace of 1.9 percent in the South Asian region. According to a new Asian Development Bank […]

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Security: Terrorists follow no rules, so India’s response can’t have rules, says EAM

April 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has asserted that since terrorists do not play by rules, there cannot be any rules in India’s answer to them. India is committed to responding to any act of terrorism perpetrated from across the borders, he said in Pune on Friday. Attacking the United Progressive Alliance […]

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AAP to Support INDIA Bloc Candidates in UP

April 12, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 12: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced unconditional support to the INDIA bloc candidates in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha polls pointing out that these elections were being held to “save democracy” and end an “autocratic government.” “AAP will fully support the INDIA bloc candidates in Uttar Pradesh. What our […]

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Bengaluru Café Blast Accused Held in Bengal

April 12, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 12: The two men who plotted and executed the blast that rocked Rameshwaram Café in Bengaluru last month have been arrested from Kanthi in East Midnapore district in West Bengal, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Friday. Mussavir Hussain Shazeb and Abdul Matheen Taha were caught after a joint operation by […]

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Modi, Opposition Traded charges on Non-Veg Food

April 12, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 12: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi Attacking the opposition over a couple of viral videos showing some leaders eating non-vegetarian food during the “Chaitra Navratri” has evoked strong reaction from the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) who claimed that Mr Modi was raising non-issues in the elections to […]

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Plastic Overshoot Day: India among 12 nations ‘mismanaging’ waste

April 12, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although the fast-developing India’s per capita plastic waste production is among the lowest in the world, it is among the 12 countries responsible for 60 percent of the planet’s mismanaged plastic waste, the media reported on Friday. The “Plastic Overshoot Day” report by Swiss non-profit EA Earth Action also said global […]

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Cycling: Recovering, Belgian cyclist Waut Van Aert withdraws from Giro d’Italia

April 12, 2024 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 12: Belgian cyclist Waut Van Aert will not compete at the 2024 Giro d’Italia as he is yet to fully recover from injuries. Waut had suffered from collarbone and several rib injuries during the Dwars door Vlaanderen race in Belgium last month. In a video message on Thursday, he said he is trying […]