Arun Kumar India’s Commonwealth Games contingent has suffered a setback on the day of the Glasgow 2026 opening ceremony, with judoka Arun Kumar withdrawn from the competition after failing a dope test.The rising 73kg judoka was declared ineligible following an adverse analytical finding in an out-of-competition test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). His...
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‘Sent 4 formal proposals’: MoS Jitendra Singh invites protesters for talks at JP Nadda’s place
Centre invites CJP for talks NEW DELHI: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday invited the protesters against NEET paper leak for talks at JP Nadda’s place on the central government’s behalf. This comes after the talk on Monday with the Cockroach Janta Party’s spokespersons failed to bear any results.“The govt has sent four formal proposals...
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Jana Nayagan first day-first show review: Vijay’s farewell film is more than a blockbuster
Tamil superstar films have never really been about plots. They are carefully orchestrated public festivals where cinema merely provides the excuse. The screenplay is often only the rope holding together fireworks, punchy dialogues, songs, nostalgia and collective emotion. Jana Nayagan understands that better than most. The audience inside a packed Chennai theatre on Friday morning...
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Watching Jana Nayagan first day-first show in Chennai: Vijay’s farewell project that’s much more than a film
Tamil superstar films have never really been about plots. They are carefully orchestrated public festivals where cinema merely provides the excuse. The screenplay is often only the rope holding together fireworks, punchy dialogues, songs, nostalgia and collective emotion. Jana Nayagan understands that better than most. The audience inside a packed Chennai theatre on Friday morning...
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India’s dying rivers: How our cities are choking their lifelines
Yamuna river (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: “Nature provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” The words widely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi perhaps resonate nowhere more starkly today than along India’s rivers.From Delhi to Mumbai, Chennai to Hyderabad and Bengaluru, India’s urban rivers tell similar stories. They have been straightened,...
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Ships trapped near Strait of Hormuz could become nurseries for invasive species
(Representative Image) Image source: Getty Images Having escalated into open hostilities on February 28, 2026, the current United States and Iran war has been going on for nearly five months. In this period, the Strait of Hormuz, the only open-ocean exit for major producers like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and the UAE has been...
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Bangladesh President likely to resign soon: Reports
Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin is likely to resign nearly two years before the end of his five-year term, according to political sources and media reports, amid growing speculation that the government is no longer comfortable with his continuation in office.“It is likely that he (Shahabuddin) will resign soon,” a senior leader of Prime Minister Tarique...
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Amazon cuts jobs in team focused on tech that Google, Microsoft says is their ‘biggest’ goals
Amazon has laid off employees from its Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team, a report by the news agency Reuters claims. This unit is responsible for developing AI models and technologies to create systems that can perform at or beyond human capability across a wide range of tasks. The cuts come even as the company describes...
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New Covid variants BA.2.86, RF.5: Symptoms, risks and precautions
4 min readNew DelhiJul 23, 2026 02:00 PM IST Amid reports of an uptick in cases in Andhra Pradesh, we asked experts about how BA.2.86 and RF.5 — newer sub-variants of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 — are different and precautionary steps to take. Dr Rituja Ugalmugle, consultant, internal medicine, Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai Central, said...
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கமிஷனில் கல்லாக்கட்ட நினைக்கும் சீனியர் அமைச்சர்..? கோட்டை லீக்ஸ்..!
தவெக தலைவராக இருந்த விஜயை, இட்னு வந்து இட்னு போய் முதலமைச்சர் அரியணையில் ஏற்றிய அந்த சீனியர் அமைச்சர், ஒப்பந்தப் பணிகளை மேற்கொள்ளும் நபர்களிடம் இருந்து அதிகாரிகள் 10 சதவீத கமிஷன் பெற்றுக்கொள்ளலாம் என்றும், அதில் தனக்கான தொகை சரியாக வந்து சேர வேண்டும் என்றும் அதிகாரிகளிடம் தெரிவித்ததாக கூறப்படுகிறது. மேலும், பழைய நிலுவை பில்களைத் தீர்வு செய்வதற்காக 3 சதவீத கமிஷன் பெற்றுக்கொள்ளலாம் என்றும், அதிலும் தனக்கான பங்கு முறையாக வழங்கப்பட வேண்டும் என அந்த...
