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India vs England : The making of B Sai Sudharsan, Test cap 317
SHORTLY before lunch on Day One of the first Test, the moment was finally here. B Sai Sudharsan, wearing his India whites, was striding out to the playing strip at Headingley. There were other options but the Indian management had seen what they had liked not just in the nets over the last 10 days but also with his aptitude, attitude and work ethic.
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June 21, 2025
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China sends scores of planes across central line in Taiwan Strait
China sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early Friday, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait that unofficially divides the sides, an unusually large number as tensions remained heightened in the region.
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June 21, 2025
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World Bank and IMF climate snub 'worrying': COP29 presidency
The hosts of the most recent UN climate talks are worried international lenders are retreating from their commitments to help boost funding for developing countries' response to global warming.
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June 21, 2025
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Pregnant woman carried in a sling in Gujarat's Chhota Udepur, exposes crumbling claims of 'Vikas'
In what can only be described as a shocking indictment of Gujarat’s ‘development model’, a disturbing video from Khenda village in Naswadi in Chhota Udepur district has once again ripped the mask off the State’s rural infrastructure reality.
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June 21, 2025
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After girl's death, cops told to check movement of heavy vehicles in Chennai
Following the death of a 10-year-old girl on Paper Mills Road after a water tanker ran over her on Wednesday, senior officials from the Greater Chennai Traffic Police (GCTP) have instructed traffic police officers and personnel to be more stringent against heavy vehicles that ply on city roads during peak hours.
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June 21, 2025
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Centre keeping close watch as Indian funds in Swiss banks triple to Rs 38,000 crore
Amid reports that Indian funds in Swiss banks tripled to Rs 38,000 crore in 2024, the Centre said it is closely monitoring possible tax evasion, leveraging various information exchange mechanisms with Switzerland on foreign assets and income.
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June 21, 2025
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Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy: Dawn of a new era for India
When the first Test of the five-match series between India and hosts England begins in Leeds, Headingley on Friday, it will also mark the beginning and a possible end of an era for both the teams.
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June 21, 2025
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Nine killed in wedding return trip as car collides with trailer on Jharkhand-Bengal border
Nine people died in a road accident on the Jharkhand—West Bengal border while returning from a wedding procession in Purulia, West Bengal.
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June 21, 2025
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Appoint coordinators for civic works in Bengaluru, execute projects within deadline: Experts
Experts as well as the common man flayed the never-ending civic works and taking up of road-related infrastructure during monsoon by various civic agencies in Bengaluru.
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June 21, 2025
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Union Minister Jual Oram unhappy over Air India flight delay
Union Tribal Affairs Minister and Sundargarh MP Jual Oram on Wednesday expressed displeasure at his detention in New Delhi airport for hours due to delay in departure of Bhubaneswar-bound Air India (Al) flight no 2489.
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June 21, 2025
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GHMC to track Rohingya births and deaths with UNHCR tags
The GHMC will now record details of newborns and deceased individuals from Rohingya families in a separate database, tagging their records with a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identifier.
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June 21, 2025
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Women's Asian Cup qualifiers moved to Qatar amid Israel-Iran war
Women's Asian Cup qualifiers originally starting next week in Jordan have been moved to Qatar because of the “ongoing situation\" in the Middle East, football officials said Friday.
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June 21, 2025
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Dedicated to realise PM Modi’s vision of Viksit Odisha, says CM Mohan Charan Majhi
(Corresp., 20-06-25) This afternoon, the beloved prime minister of the country, Shri Narendra Modi Ji, arrives in Odisha.
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June 21, 2025
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Rs 244-crore project to come up at Pallipuram Space Tech Industry cluster
The state government has launched an important project that aims at energising Kerala's space research sector.
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June 21, 2025
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Congress leaders detained ahead of PM Modi's visit to Odisha, OPCC slams move
Odisha Police detained several Congress workers ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modis visit to the state on Friday. Among those put under preventive detention are Syed Yashir Nawaz, general secretary of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), and four other youth leaders.
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June 21, 2025
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Iran's internet blackout leaves public in dark and creates an uneven picture of the war with Israel
As the war between Israel and Iran hits the one-week mark, Iranians have spent nearly half of the conflict in a near-communication blackout, unable to connect not only with the outside world but also with their neighbors and loved ones across the country.
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June 21, 2025
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Calcutta HC stays Mamata govt's financial relief scheme for non-teaching staff who lost jobs after SC order
The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered an interim stay till September 26 on the West Bengal government's financial scheme to provide interim relief for Group C & D non-teaching employees in state-aided schools, who had recently lost their jobs following the Supreme Court order on April 3.
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June 21, 2025
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Declined President Trump's invitation to visit US as I wanted to come to Lord Jagannath's land: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he declined US President Donald Trump's invitation for a luncheon with him in Washington DC because he had to return to Odisha, the sacred land of Lord Jagannath.
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June 21, 2025
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Bihar would not forget insult: PM Modi slams RJD over Ambedkar portrait insult
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a blistering attack on RJD chief Lalu Prasad after a portrait of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar was purportedly seen placed near someone's feet.
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June 21, 2025
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India's Defence Secretary calls it 'an embarrassment' as Pak Army chief meets Trump, PM Sharif sidelined
Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh has said that it is an embarrassment for Pakistan that its Army Chief Amir Munir was invited for a meeting with US President Donald Trump and that the country's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was \"nowhere to be seen\" and that this also indicates \"where the sort of power relationship lies\" in Pakistan.
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June 21, 2025
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Digital Payments award for City Union Bank
City Union Bank (CUB) has been conferred the Digital Payments Award, instituted by the Department of Financial Services, for its exemplary contributions to the promotion of digital payments.
1 min |
June 21, 2025
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Biopic based on Samba Rock singer Darkkey announced
The life of Darkkey Nagaraja, known widely as Darkkey, is being adapted into a feature film, titled Aku Darkkey.
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June 21, 2025
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Ajay Devgn-starrer 'Son of Sardaar 2' to hit big screen on July 25
\"Son of Sardaar 2\", starring Ajay Devgn and Mrunal Thakur, is set to release in theatres on July 25. The film from Vijay Kumar Arora is a sequel to \"Son of Sardaar\", which released in 2012.
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June 21, 2025
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DGCA warned Air India for violation of safety protocols in Airbus planes days before Al171 crash: Report
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had warned Air India of safety protocol violations after three of its Airbus planes continued operations despite pending security checks of emergency systems, Reuters reported, citing government documents.
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June 21, 2025
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'Circular Railway DPR around Bengaluru to be ready by August'
The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the 288-km Circular Railway Project around Bengaluru will be completed and submitted to the Railway Board by August 2025, stated Divisional Railway Manager, Bengaluru Division, South Western Railway (SWR), Ashutosh Kumar Singh, on Thursday.
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June 21, 2025
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Falling inflation, uneven growth led to RBI front-loading rate cut, show Monetary Policy Committee minutes
The unconventional 50 bps repo rate cut, taking the key rate to a low of 5.5%, along with a 100 bps reduction in the cash reserve ratio in a staggered manner announced on June 6 are part of the central bank's efforts to prop up growth, which has lost some of its momentum due to the ongoing trade war concerns. The cut was also enabled by the six-member Monetary Policy Committee's unanimous benign outlook on inflation, given the falling food prices and the forecast for a normal monsoon season, show the minutes of the June 4-6 meeting of the panel, released by the RBI on Friday. In a surprise move, the MPC slashed the key repo by 50 bps—the only time it had done such a move in recent years was the 75 bps reduction in May 2020 in the middle of the pandemic—and also slashed the CRR to 3%.
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June 21, 2025
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Court slaps Rs 1 crore fine on private dairy for copying Milma branding
The Principal Commercial Court in Thiruvananthapuram has imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore on Milnna, a private dairy, for copying the cover design and brand name of Milma on its milk packets an act the court ruled as a violation of trade laws.
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June 21, 2025
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Danny Boyle says he would not make 'Slumdog Millionaire' today due to cultural appropriation concerns
Danny Boyle is proud of his Oscar-winning 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, but the filmmaker acknowledged that he cannot make the film in the present climate.
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June 21, 2025
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Infant, toddler among four of family killed in wall collapse in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district
Four members of a family, including two children, were killed in their sleep after a residential wall collapsed early Saturday in Gujjar Basti, Mora Tok, a remote hamlet in Uttarkashi district's Oddata Revenue Village.
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June 21, 2025
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Metro line at Kathipara an engineering marvel: CM Stalin
Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday described the Chennai Metro Rail constructions under way at Kathipara junction as an “engineering marvel” during a site inspection of the elevated corridor.
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