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Indian teen Praggnanandhaa beats No.1 Carlsen in online chess tournament
Chennai: India’s 16-year-old Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa shocked world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the eighth round of the Airthings Masters online rapid chess tournament on Monday. Praggnanandhaa halted Carlsen’s three-game winning…
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Bajrang Dal activist stabbed to death in Shivamogga; BJP MLA blames ‘Musalmaan Goondas’
Shivamogga (Karnataka): A 23-year old Bajrang Dal activist was stabbed to death in this district headquarters town, police said, as the administration clamped prohibitory orders for two days and announced a holiday…
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Lalu sentenced 5-yr jail, Rs 60L fine in 5th fodder scam case
Ranchi: A special CBI court in Ranchi on Monday sentenced Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad to five years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 60 lakh on him in…
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Bhanuka Rajapaksa dropped from Sri Lanka’s squad for T20Is vs India
Colombo: Batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa has been dropped from Sri Lanka’s 18-member squad for the upcoming T20I series against India. Rajapaksa, who was recently a member of the Sri Lanka squad touring Australia…
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India, France to enhance cooperation on marine science, technology
New Delhi: India and France will enhance scientific cooperation in marine science and technology and also exchanges of students and researchers with aims to monitor, protect and sustainably use marine living and…
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Two-day mourning in Andhra as Industry minister dies
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh government on Monday declared a two-day state mourning following the sudden death of minister for Industries, Commerce, Information Technology Mekapati Gowtham Reddy. National flag will be flown at half-mast on…
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Sony PlayStation 5 to go on pre-orders in India on Tuesday
New Delhi: Sony PlayStation 5 was set to go on pre-orders from Tuesday (February 22) in India. The console will be available for pre-booking at 12 noon at retail stores. According to…
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Demand for Hindu Rashtra growing each day in Chhattisgarh: Asad Owaisi
Hardoi: Claiming that after the Congress party and the BJP organized ‘Dharam Sansad’ in Chhattisgarh two more Hindu Rashtra seminars were held in Raipur and Bilaspur, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday…
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Pawan Kalyan slams Jagan over GO 217 related to fishermen
Hyderabad: Actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan, who participated in a public meeting on Sunday, at Narasapuram, has criticised Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on the controversial Government Order 217. During his speech…
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India climb to top of T20I rankings after clean sweep of series vs West Indies
Dubai: India’s 3-0 whitewash of West Indies in the T20I series has helped them overtake England at the top of the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings released on Monday. India won the…
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KCR-Uddhav-Pawar meet: Such unity experiments have failed in the past, says Fadnavis
Aurangabad: A day after Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao met his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar in Mumbai to get parties to unite against the Narendra Modi…
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Biden accepts ‘in principle’ meeting with Putin: White House
Washington: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that President Joe Biden has “accepted in principle” a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Psaki’s confirmation late Sunday night of a potential Biden-Putin…
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World’s richest man Musk ‘dating’ Australian actress Natasha Bassett
New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who ended 2021 as the richest person in the world, is now reportedly dating 27-year-old Australian actress Natasha Bassett. According to Bassett, she has…
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Bihar: Burqa-clad girl turned away from UCO Bank in Begusarai
Patna: A burqa-clad girl in Bihar’s Begusarai district was stopped from making transactions in a nationalised bank, an official said. The girl recorded the incident and shared it on social media on…