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AP: Tribal women stage ‘mock suicide’ protest against cashew crop destruction
Visakhapatnam: Tribal women farmers of Andhra Pradesh alleging destruction of their cashew plantations at Urlova village of V Madugula mandal in the Anakapalli District of the state staged a symbolic protest in…
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Produce more children, else India will be ‘Hindu-less’, says Narsinghanand
Mathura: Controversial seer Yati Narsinghanand, who is out on bail in the Haridwar hate speech case, has urged Hindus to produce more children to prevent the country from becoming Hindu-less in the…
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IMF, Lebanon reach $3bn funding deal
Beirut: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff-level agreement with Lebanon to provide the country with $3 billion in a 46-month financing programme. The agreement is subject to approval by…
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Telangana: Harish Rao asks health staff to adopt humane ways of service
Hyderabad: Telangana health minister T Harish Rao on Thursday urged health workers to double up their efforts in providing healthcare to the needy in a humane manner. Felicitating doctors and other health…
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Vyapam whistleblower Anand Rai arrested from Delhi hotel
Bhopal: Vyapam scam whistleblower Anand Rai, who recently ‘exposed’ the Madhya Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (MP-TET) paper leak, has been arrested from a hotel in Delhi late on Thursday. He has been…
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Right wing groups now target multiple brands including IRCTC & Air India for halal certification
Bengaluru: Some right wing organisations are now going after multiple brands including the state-owned IRCTC, Air India and Amulfed Dairy for displaying halal certificate on their product labels. These organisations said their…
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Bengaluru schools get bomb threats, premises vacated
Bengaluru: Bomb threats were made on Friday at two international schools situated in the outskirts of Bengaluru following which the police rushed bomb squads to the spot and the premises were emptied.…
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Missing girl’s body found in car in Asaram’s UP ashram
Gonda: The body of a minor girl, who went missing from her house four days ago, was recovered from a car parked in self-styled godman and rape convict Asaram’s ashram in Uttar…
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UNICEF: Ukraine war raising malnutrition risk in Middle East
Beirut: Rising food prices as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are increasing the risk of malnutrition of millions of children in the Middle East and North Africa, the UN…
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AP: YS Jagan created irrevocable political crisis, says Yanamala
Amaravati: TDP politburo member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu on Friday accused Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy of creating an ‘irrevocable political crisis’ in the name of reorganisation of his cabinet. Ramakrishnudu…
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Biden ‘applauds’ Russia’s suspension from Human Rights Council
Washington: US President Joe Biden announced that he “applauds the overwhelming vote” by the UN General Assembly to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council in the wake of Moscow’s ongoing war on…
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Telangana chief justice honours traffic home guard for his duty
Hyderabad: Chief justice of Telangana high court Satish Chandra Sharma on Friday felicitated a traffic police home guard for his dedication to his duty. The chief justice was on his way to…
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Has discord between Telangana Governor, CM reached point of no-return?
Hyderabad: The discord between Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and the state’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government appears to have a reached a point of no-return. The Governor publicly complaining about the “insult” meted…
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UP: Amidst cheers, Hindutva seer threatens to rape Muslim women
Sitapur: A video of a saffron-clad seer delivering a hate speech against Muslims and inciting sexual violence against Muslim women, issuing rape threats, surfaced on social media on Thursday. The two-minute video…
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India logs 1,109 new COVID cases, 43 deaths
New Delhi: India on Friday reported a marginal increase with 1,109 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, against the 1,033 infections reported a day earlier, the Union Health Ministry said. Also…
