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Taiwan: India calls for avoiding unilateral actions to change status quo
New Delhi: India on Friday said it was concerned over the developments around Taiwan and called for avoiding “unilateral actions” to change the status quo in the region, days after China held…
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783.46% higher penalty collected from ticketless rly passengers in NE
Guwahati: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has collected 783.46 percent higher penalty from ticketless passengers or travellers with irregular tickets in January to July this year compared to the same period of…
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Inaugural edition of Women’s IPL to be held in March 2023
New Delhi: The much-awaited Women’s IPL will be starting from March 2023 to be held in a one-month window and in all likelihood with five teams, a senior BCCI official confirmed the…
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Pakistan, Turkiye sign trade preferential agreement to further bolster bilateral ties
Islamabad: Pakistan and its close ally Turkiye on Friday inked a preferential trade agreement aimed at opening up market access worth USD 7.5 billion for Pakistani goods, a deal hailed by Islamabad…
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Trump premises searched for papers related to nuclear weapons: Reports
Washington: FBI agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons, among others, in the unprecedented search they conducted of the premises of former US President Donald Trump earlier this week in…
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ED takes action against firms dealing in cryptocurrency
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has conducted searches at various premises of Yellow Tune Technologies Private Limited in Bengaluru and has issued an order to freeze its…
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Security concerns bring China closer to Taliban
Islamabad: The severe isolation of Afghanistan since the Taliban captured the country’s capital a year ago has provided China an opportunity to become a major player in the country, the media reported.…
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24 Pakistani Hindus get Indian citizenship
Rajkot: Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi on Friday handed over citizenship certificates to 24 Pakistani Hindus who were living in India on a long-term visas in Rajkot and had…
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Stockholders must disclose stocks of Tur dal: Centre to states, UTs
New Delhi: The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution on Friday issued a directive to all the states and UTs to enforce stock disclosure by stockholders of Tur pulse and…
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Explained: Why and how BGMI was blocked in India
New Delhi: After blocking several Chinese apps two years back, including PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) over national security concerns, the Indian government has now blocked the PUBG-like battle royale game Battlegrounds Mobile India…
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Punjab releases Rs 100 crore arrears of sugarcane farmers
Chandigarh: Fulfilling a promise, the Punjab government on Friday said it has released Rs 100 crore for pending payments of sugarcane growers. The amount was deposited in the accounts of the farmers.…
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Udaipur: Dalit man, ‘beaten’ by cops in custody, goes under medical examination
Jaipur: A medical board on Friday examined a Dalit man whose family members had accused the police of severely beating him during interrogation in a molestation case lodged by a woman in…
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HIV+ patients protest over shortage of drugs; Govt denies medicine scarcity
New Delhi: A group of people who are HIV positive have been protesting outside the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) office here for the past 20 days alleging shortage of certain antiretroviral…
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling, making talc-based baby powder
London: Johnson & Johnson is to stop selling and making talc-based baby powder globally, two years after it ended sales in the US and Canada, the media reported. The healthcare firm has…
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Hyderabad: Two habitual burglars convicted under PD Act
Hyderabad: Two habitual burglars who were arrested on June 26 by the Rachakonda police commissionerate were convicted and sent to central jail on Thursday, under the Preventive Detention (PD) Act. The accused…
