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The year 2024 was one to remember for Kolkata Knight Riders as they clinched their third Indian Premier League title and first in the last 10 years. KKR won IPL trophies back in 2012 and 2014 but what followed was a long drought for the side. During this period, the closest KKR came…
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IndiGo has rejected the DGCA’s suggestion to raise the definition of night flying from all flying between midnight to 5 a.m. by an hour to include flying till 6 a.m. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: The Hindu In a letter to the DGCA, IndiGo has opposed the regulator’s proposal to reduce night flying for…
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More and more countries are legalising voluntary assisted dying. This lets a doctor, or sometimes a nurse practitioner, give life-ending medication to an eligible person who requests it. As of 2023, 282 million people lived in regions where voluntary assisted dying is legal. Jurisdictions such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon have had these laws…
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\: Keshav Maharaj and Wiaan Mulder have been included in South Africa’s Test squad for the upcoming series against Pakistan, starting on December 26 in Centurion, despite being on varied stages of their respective injuries. Maharaj sustained an acute groin strain on Tuesday during warm-ups ahead of the first ODI against Pakistan at Boland…
(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Until now, scientists believed that there was no binary star system near Sagittarius A*, which is a supermassive black hole located at the centre of our Milky Way. However, new…
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah – at the centre of a ferocious Congress-led maelstrom following his “Ambedkar is the fashion” quip in Parliament last night – counterattacked Wednesday evening by accusing his rivals of being “anti-Ambedkar” and “anti-Constitution”, and “spreading lies”. A combative Amit Shah – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s No 2 and one…
Andrew Tate, flanked by bodyguards, looks at a mobile phone at the Court of Appeals building in Bucharest, Romania on Tuesday (December 10, 2024). | Photo Credit: AP A British court ruled Wednesday (December 18, 2024) that police can seize more than 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) to cover years of unpaid taxes from influencer…
Chinese astronauts for the Shenzhou-18 mission, from right, Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu wave as they attend a send-off ceremony for their manned space mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, April 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Will the next human to walk on the Moon speak English or…
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At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 84.92 against the greenback, and touched 84.95 during intra-day trade. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee dropped 3 paise to close at an all-time low of 84.94 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday (December 18, 2024), as traders await cues from the US Fed…
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File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty stayed on the back foot for the third straight session on Wednesday (December 18, 2024) as investors offloaded utility, capital goods and metal stocks amid foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex tumbled 502.25 points or 0.62% to settle at 80,182.20, taking its…
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