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Adani agrees to pay $18 million penalty in US corruption case
Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani has agreed to pay a multi-million-dollar settlement in a US civil court case linked to corruption without admitting guilt, his company said Friday.
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May 16, 2026
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GOLD DROPS 2% AS US DOLLAR BULLS APPEAL
Gold dropped 2% on Friday as surging Treasury yields and a stronger U.S. dollar dulled its appeal, with higher oil prices and persistent tensions in the Middle East reinforcing expectations of higher interest rates.
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May 16, 2026
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UAE to accelerate oil pipeline project to help bypass Hormuz
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will accelerate construction of a new oil pipeline to double its export capacity through Fujairah by 2027, the government's Abu Dhabi Media Office (ADMO) said on Friday, vastly expanding its ability to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
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May 16, 2026
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Staring into devoid
In Himmat Shah’s work, he seeks the same thing: To know if art can ever be separated from the artwork
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May 16, 2026
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Yamuna Bazar residents told to vacate by May 18
Nearly the entire locality in the Yamuna Bazar area, near Kashmere Gate, has now received eviction notices from the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), which direct residents to vacate the premises by May 18, after which a demolition drive will begin, residents and officials aware of the matter on Friday.
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May 16, 2026
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Disputed Bhojshala site a temple: MP HC
The Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar district is a temple dedicated to Goddess Saraswati, the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court held on Friday, delivering a victory to Hindu petitioners in a decades-long religious dispute.
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May 16, 2026
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Heat, moisture, wind shear came together to brew deadly UP storm
What hit Uttar Pradesh this week, killing at least 11 people across 25 districts, was not a single storm but a collision of weather systems that should not ordinarily be in the same place at the same time.
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May 16, 2026
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SC sets aside HC order suspending Sengar's life term in Unnao rape case
The Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Delhi high court order that had suspended the life sentence of former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case, observing that it does not prima facie endorse the “hyper-technical view” taken by the HC that Sengar could not strictly be termed a public servant for attracting the offence of aggravated penetrative sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
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May 16, 2026
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Right call? Why Indian coaches lose out to the foreign experts
PR Sreejesh believes homegrown talent is getting a raw deal but it isn’t that simple
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May 16, 2026
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Machine defeats man: Deep Blue topples Kasparov
Supercomputer beat the then world chess champion, ushering in engine era for sport
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May 16, 2026
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Scammed by the ham
Ham has wowed Ancient Rome, flavoured Chinese cuisine and is an expensive delicacy in Spain. So why is India stuck eating wet cardboard?
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May 16, 2026
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US planning to indict Raul Castro over 1996 downing of two planes
The United States plans to indict Cuba's Raul Castro, a US Department of Justice official said late on Thursday.
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May 16, 2026
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MAN'S BODY FOUND STUFFED IN BLUE DRUM; GIRLFRIEND AMONG 2 ARRESTED
A 25-year-old woman and her brother were arrested for allegedly killing her lover with the help of her husband and another accomplice, stuffing his body inside a blue drum and dumping it in a secluded drain in Vasai, police said on Friday, adding that the murder was a fallout of a dispute over money.
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May 16, 2026
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‘Tibetans refer to lakes, rivers as mothers, fathers’
On her novel set in colonial times that features Indian spies in Tibet, and an Englishwomen intent on reaching Lhasa
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May 16, 2026
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Iran allows more vessels through Strait of Hormuz
The naval forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are allowing more ships to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state television said on Friday, after Tehran blocked the waterway following US-Israeli strikes.
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May 16, 2026
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DTC bus mows down pedestrian, leaves biker hurt near Dhaula Kuan
A speeding DTC bus ran over a 40-year-old pedestrian, killing him, and then hit a two-wheeler, injuring the rider, near the Dhaula Kuan Metro station on Friday morning, police said.
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May 16, 2026
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Xi gives Trump rare tour of garden at the heart of Chinese govt
After talks on trade, Taiwan and Iran, Chinese President Xi Jinping showed off the centuries-old trees in Beijing's walled-off Zhongnanhai compound, where he strolled with US President Donald Trump in the concluding hours of their summit.
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May 16, 2026
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New Delhi to Oslo, building a new strategic partnership
We live in an unpredictable world. But unpredictability is not the same as powerlessness.
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May 16, 2026
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SC urges Centre to take steps for airfare rationalisation
The Supreme Court on Friday urged the Centre to take steps to “rationalise” airfares, pointing to the glaring disparity in ticket prices charged by different airlines for the same route on the same day, with economy class fares ranging from ₹8,000 to ₹18,000.
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May 16, 2026
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Delhi HC directs CCI not to pass order against Apple till July 15
The Delhi high court on Friday asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) not to pass a final order till July 15 in its probe against tech giant Apple over its App Store’s payment policies.
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May 16, 2026
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Hry allows CBI to probe role of five IAS officers
The Haryana government has given a green signal to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the alleged role of five IAS officers in the ₹590-crore IDFC First Bank fraud case.
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May 16, 2026
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Virtual hearings for two days, carpool by judges
In an unprecedented fuel conservation measure triggered by the prolonged geopolitical crisis in West Asia, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered mandatory virtual hearings on Mondays and Fridays during partial working days in June and July, while also permitting up to 50% of its registry staff to work from home for two days a week.
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May 16, 2026
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CBI names chem prof on NTA duty as leak kingpin
A Chemistry professor who was part of the National Testing Agency' examination process has been arrested as the alleged mastermind behind the NEET-UG 2026 question paper leak, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Friday, pointing to a breach that originated inside the agency responsible for conducting India's most critical medical entrance test.
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May 16, 2026
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7 KILLED AFTER SPEEDING TANKER CRASHES INTO TRACTOR IN K'TAKA
Seven members of an extended family were killed on Friday after a speeding tanker truck crashed into their tractor on a stretch of National Highway 50 along the border of Karnataka’s Koppal and Vijayanagara districts, said police.
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May 16, 2026
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Global effort key to win in war on drugs, says Shah
Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday called for a unified global effort on the war on drugs, calling upon ambassadors and diplomats of around 40 countries to join the fight, the home ministry said in a statement.
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May 16, 2026
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Petrol, diesel retail prices hiked by ₹3/l as war bites
State-run oil companies raised pump prices of petrol and diesel by ₹3 per litre each across the country on Friday, while Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) increased compressed natural gas (CNG) rates by ₹2 per kg in and around Delhi — the first retail fuel price revision since the West Asia conflict drove international crude to multi-year highs.
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May 16, 2026
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Srinivasan’s plaint puts Tata Trusts board meet on hold
A surprise intervention by Tata Trust vice-chairman Venu Srinivasan, along with two other complainants, prompted the Maharashtra charity commissioner to cancel a crucial board meeting of the trust scheduled Saturday to decide his continuation on Tata Sons’ board.
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May 16, 2026
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MI’s talent pool not keeping up with times, needs reset
After unearthing a host of India’s finest T20 players, Mumbai Indians scouts are struggling to deliver uncapped gems
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May 16, 2026
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SC allows remission of sentence for convict in 2003 UP murder case
The Supreme Court on Friday held that the executive cannot deny remission solely on grounds of the crime being heinous paving the way for the premature release of a life convict, 22 years after he was jailed in the 2003 Madhumita Shukla murder case in Uttar Pradesh.
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May 16, 2026
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RAPPER YE'S MAY SHOW POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
The concert of American rapper Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), previously scheduled to be on May 23 in Delhi, has been postponed until further notice, as per an announcement by concert organiser White Fox through a post on Instagram.
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