New Delhi, March 2 President Droupadi Murmu on Monday launched the Pink National Common Mobility Card and three other women-centric welfare schemes of the Delhi government. Addressing the gathering at the “Sashakt Nari, Samriddh Delhi” programme, Murmu said initiatives like free bus travel and integrated transport access would strengthen women’s independence and safety. At the […]
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Dubai, March 2 Iran fired missiles at Israel and Arab states on Monday, and the war expanded to include militias Tehran backs in the Middle East with an attack by Hezbollah on Israel, which struck back against the group in Lebanon, and the United States pounded targets in Iran. As the American and Israeli airstrikes […]
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Dubai, March 2 Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon after Hezbollah attacked Israel have killed at least 31 people, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Monday. The Hezbollah attack and the Israeli retaliatory strikes expand the ongoing war gripping the Mideast after America and Israel launched an airstrike campaign targeting Iran. The Health Ministry said that the strikes […]
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New Delhi, March 2 Afghanistan will kick off their upcoming tour of India with a one-off Test match, followed by three one-day internationals in June, the BCCI said on Monday. “Afghanistan will play one Test match followed by a three-match One-Day International (ODI) series. The Test match will be played in New Chandigarh from June […]
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Prague (Czech Republic) March 2 The fortunes of World Champion D Gukesh did not change for the fifth day running as the Indian blundered from a position of strength to lose to nemesis Nodirbek Abdusattorov at the Prague International Chess Festival here. Just a month back, Gukesh had lost to Abdusattorov through a blunder from […]
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Sheopur (MP), March 2 Nine cheetahs airlifted from Botswana were in good health in their quarantine enclosures in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, where they served food for the first time on Monday, officials said. This is the third batch of big cats from Africa that was brought on Saturday on an Indian Air Force […]
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Vetlapalem (Andhra Pradesh), March 2 The death toll from the cracker unit blast here has reached 22, a district official said on Monday. “One person died on Sunday night at 9 pm. Death toll rose to 22,” Kakinada District Medical and Health Officer (DM&HO) J Narasimha Nayak told PTI. As many as 20 people, including […]
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New Delhi, March 2 The iconic Sunil Gavaskar says Sanju Samson is such a “nice guy” that everyone wants him to do well and his clutch knock against the West Indies must have taken the pressure off everyone’s shoulders. Samson broke his sequence of low scores with a match-winning 97-run knock at the big stage […]
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Kochi, March 2 Flight operations to Gulf countries from Kerala were affected for the third consecutive day on Monday following the conflict in West Asia, with authorities indicating that the disruption may last a few more days. Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) listed around 45 departing flights from Kochi as cancelled for Monday on its […]
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Nagpur, March 2 Police have arrested nine directors of an explosives manufacturing company in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district, where a blast claimed the lives of 18 persons, officials said on Monday. The Kalmeshwar police here have registered a case against 21 directors and shareholders of the SBL Energy Limited under Section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting […]
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