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Every athlete is India’s pride: PM Modi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday extended his best wishes to the Indian contingent participating in the Paris Olympics, and said every athlete is India’s pride. As the Paris #Olympics…
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Tharoor introduces Bill to give 1% reservations to transgender persons in govt
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday introduced a private member bill that seeks to provide one per cent reservation for transgender persons across categories in government establishments, including educational institutions.…
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Police send report on marriage of Puja Khedkar’s parents to govt
Pune: Pune Police has sent a report about the marital status of the parents of controversial trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar to the Maharashtra government, an official said on Friday. The couple,…
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Expedite process for conducting local body polls: Telangana CM
Hyderabad: During a review meeting on gram panchayat elections and voter-list preparation held at Dr BR Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat on Friday, July 26, Revanth Reddy asked the BC Commission to submit…
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Adidas removes Bella Hadid from campaign, apologises later
Sports apparel brand Adidas has apologised to Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid following backlash over her removal from a recent advertising campaign that referenced the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The advertising campaign was…
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Paris Olympics 1988 and now: this time India will win more medals
Long, long ago in the year 1988, I visited Trocadero to get one of the best views of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Lo and behold, it truly was an unforgettable sight…
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2 Hezbollah members killed in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon
Beirut: Two Hezbollah members were killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on a Lebanese village in southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua. The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that an…
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PM Modi, EAM hail selection of Charaideo Maidams to Unesco World Heritage list
New Delhi: Calling it as a matter of “immense joy and pride” for India, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that the selection of Assam’s Charaideo Maidams to Unesco World Heritage list…
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‘Boop’, ‘the ick’, ‘chef’s kiss’ new additions to ‘Cambridge Dictionary’
London:Informal words used as slang, such as ‘boop’ and ‘the ick’, are among more than 3,200 new words and phrases added to the ‘Cambridge Dictionary’ in its latest update this week. Boop,…
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Congress membership drive & elections from August 16: Shivakumar
Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, who is the state president of the Congress, on Friday announced that the Karnataka unit of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) will take up a…
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Telangana: Student of state-run residential school dies due to ill-health
Karimnagar: An eighth standard student of a state-run residential school in Jagtial district of Telangana died following ill-health on Friday, police said. The boy suffered seizures in the wee hours and died…
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Madras HC deprecates use of caste names for schools
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday came out strongly against the continued use of caste-based terms in the names of government schools, saying the practice may end up causing stigma to…
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Kanwariyas attack Muslim man after minor collision on Delhi-Meerut highway
A group of Kanwariyas violently attacked a Muslim man and his car after a minor accident on the Meerut-Delhi Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district. According to the reports, the collision occurred…