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Alibaba Founder Jack Ma resurfaces, cites ‘difficult’ year to rural teachers
Hong Kong: Alibaba Group Founder Jack Ma, who has gone into hiding after regulatory crackdown in China amid the massive Covid surge in the country, resurfaced in a short video on the…
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Fifty ASI protected monuments ‘missing’: Ministry of Culture
The Ministry of Culture in its latest submission at the Parliament revealed that as many as 50 centrally protected monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) are untraceable or missing. The…
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2022 worst year for Al-Aqsa: Over 48,000 Israeli settlers stormed mosque
Jerusalem: The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem revealed that more than 48,000 Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the year 2022. Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, Director General of the Islamic Endowments and Al-Aqsa Mosque…
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Dining out to be costlier in New Year as commercial LPG price hiked by Rs 25
New Delhi: Dining out in 2023 would be a costlier affair now, as oil marketing companies (OMCs) on Sunday, the first day of the New Year, hiked the price of commercial LPG…
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Telangana: TSLPRB releases final exam schedule for SI, constable posts
Hyderabad: The Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board released the schedule for the final written examination for the recruitment sub-inspectors, constables, and equivalent posts on Sunday. The written test for SCT SI…
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UAE welcomes 2023 with record-breaking fireworks, laser shows
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates welcomed the year 2023 in style with a spectacular display of record-breaking fireworks at dozens of locations. The UAE set three world records, fireworks in dozens…
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Haryana sports min Sandeep Singh booked for molesting woman coach, quits
Chandigarh: Sports Minister Sandeep Singh booked on charges of sexual harassment and wrongful confinement at the complaint of a woman coach, denied allegations and quit his post here said on Sunday. The FIR…
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‘Shairon ka shahr’: Poets who made Lucknow a hub of Urdu ghazal
Any discussion of Urdu ghazals, between connoisseurs, may bring up rival merits of “Dabistan-e-Dehli” and “Dabistan-e-Lakhnau”, or the Delhi and Lucknow schools of poetry, each with an array of accomplished master poets…
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Three killed in Telangana as granite blocks fall on auto-rickshaw
Hyderabad: Three people were killed and five injured when granite blocks fell off a truck and crushed the auto-rickshaw in which they were travelling. The ghastly mishap occurred in Telangana’s Mahabubabad district…
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80 tribal students quit school in TN’s Thanjavur after harassment by classmates
Chennai: At least 80 tribal students in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district stopped going to school after they were allegedly insulted and mocked by their classmates. The students belong to the Narikkurava community.…
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Beyond Charminar: Hyderabad’s heritage sites to get a makeover
Hyderabad: The city’s heritage is expected to get a major facelift with the Telangana government stepping up its efforts to restore the glory of several structures, which had been victims of neglect…
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Kuwait: Expat workers in govt sector decline by 70%
Kuwait: The number of new expatriates working in Kuwait’s government sectors declined by 70 percent in 2022, amid an increase in the employment of Kuwaitis, local media reported. Arabic daily Al Qabas…
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2 dead, 232 rescued in Lebanon migrant boat sinking
Beirut: The Lebanese Navy has rescued 232 Syrian migrants, who were onboard a boat off the Batroun beach in northern Lebanon, and recovered the bodies of a drowned woman and her child,…
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KCR hopes 2023 will usher in people’s politics in India
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has wished that the new year usher in a new “people’s politics” and governance in the country. He hoped that 2023 will pave the way…
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Hyderabad: 5819 licenses cancelled for drunk driving on NY’s eve
Hyderabad: The Road Transport Authority (RTA) cancelled 5819 licenses in the five zones of the city on New Year’s eve. The licenses cancelled for drunk driving and accidents were 3,220 more than…
