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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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Will switch on Kaleshwaram pumps to lift water if govt doesn’t by Aug 2: KTR
Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) has warned the state government that he, along with 50,000 farmers from the ayacut areas of the Kaleshwaram project will switch on the pumps…
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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…
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Karnataka HC adjourns POCSO case against ex-CM Yediyurappa for a week
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Friday adjourned for a week former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s petition to quash the POCSO case registered against him. Yediyurappa had approached the high court…
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Bihar: GRP officer thrashes youth, angry commuters vandalise station
A shocking incident of police brutality has come to light from Bihar where a 25-year-old Muslim youth was mercilessly beaten by a government Railway Police (GRP) officer. According to the reports, the…
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Rs 5.13 cr collected as fine for littering, spitting on railway premises in two fiscals: Govt in RS
New Delhi: More than 3.30 lakh people were penalised and a fine of around Rs 5.13 crore was recovered from them in 2022-23 and 2023-24 fiscals for littering and spitting on railway…
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Parking ticket collector hacked to death at Secunderabad rly station
Secunderabad: A parking ticket collector was killed near Platform No 10 of Secunderabad Railway Station following an altercation between two parking ticket collectors on Thursday, July 25. According to Gopalapuram Police, a…
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SC flags lack of facilities in Assam’s detention centre
New Delhi: Flagging the “sorry state of affairs” at a detention centre for declared foreigners in Assam, the Supreme Court on Friday said it lacked adequate water supply, proper toilets and sanitation.…
