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R Ashwin. IT WAS MENTALLY DISTURBING, PAINFUL: ASHWIN REVEALS WHY HE QUIT IPL FROM CSK
Former India off-spinner R Ashwin revealed that he could have played IPL longer had it not been for a “mentally disturbing” and “painful” phase that he went through during his time with CSK.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
BJK Cup: Before Thailand tie, India deal with injuries
India will head into the Billie Jean King Cup (Asia/ Oceania Group 1) women’s team tennis competition starting at the DLTA courts here on Tuesday without Shrivalli Bhamidipati, who played a stellar role in taking the team to the playoffs last season.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Hormuz strait transits rise to highest in weeks after Iran nod
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has climbed to its highest levels since the early days of the war, as more countries secure apparent safe-passage agreements with Iran.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Services growth slows to 14-month low in Mar
Growth in India’s services sector eased to a 14-month low in March as the West Asia crisis hurt demand, market conditions and tourism, even as export orders remained exceptionally strong, according to the HSBC India Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released by S&P Global on Monday.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Lakshya looks to set record straight at Badminton Asia Championships
It’s been a month since Lakshya Sen played the final of the Ail England Open, his last event.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
B’DESH PLANS TO BUY WHEAT FROM INDIA AS GLOBAL SUPPLY TIGHTENS
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh is looking to buy wheat from India to meet its domestic demand and traders expect the country to import sizeable quantities, amid global supply disruptions due to the ongoing West Asia conflict, a person familiar with the matter said.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
DEALERS FLAG DELAYS IN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERIES
The Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) on Monday flagged delays in vehicle deliveries from automakers across the commercial, passenger and two-wheeler segments—the first sign of supply disruption in India’s auto industry due to the US-Iran war.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
IAF CHIEF BEGINS WEEK-LONG U.S. VISIT TO BOLSTER DEFENCE TIES
The Chief of Air Staff, ‘Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, began his week-long visit to the United States on Monday to bolster defence ties between the two countries, officials aware of the matter said.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
AI CEO resigns, quest for successor advances
Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson has resigned but will stay on with the company tilla successor is found, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Pant’s T20I story an unfinished argument
One of the prominent clips used in TV promos for IPL shows Rishabh Pant making a somersault to celebrate reaching a hundred last season.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Crash, plane crunch weigh on air traffic
MUMBAI: India’s domestic air passenger traffic growth was already cooling from the highs of post-pandemic revenge travel.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Bartlett cracks open KKR but rain has the last word
Punjab Kings’ Aussie pacer gets Cameron Green cheaply again before rain in Kolkata washes out match
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
FM warns of ‘permanent volatility’ in global economy
Trade fragmentation, along with the ongoing West Asia conflict, means that 2026 could prove more challenging, as the global economy moves from episodic “shocks” to a state of “permanent volatility,” finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Making the Indian census fit for the 21st century
India’s long-delayed census is finally back on track, with house-listing operations beginning this month.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Women find little representation in upcoming elections
But in the five regions that go tothe polls this month, women’s representation in the list of candidates released by the BJP fall far short of the 33% quota.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Trump threatens to jail journalists who wrote on daring US military raid to rescue two airmen
WASHINGTON: President Donald ‘Trump threatened to jail journalists who published details of a daring US military raid to rescue two airmen whose aircraft was shot down over Iran, accusing them of jeopardising the mission.
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April 07, 2026
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From margins to muscle, BJP’s Kerala push intensifies
“How many seats is the BJP in serious contention?”
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Govt raises gas allocation for fertiliser sector to 90%
India is scheduled to get two cargos of over 62,000 tonnes liquefied petroleum gas this week as oil companies continue to meet fuel demand of over 332 million households despite LPG supply crunch due to the ongoing West Asia conflict, government officials said on Monday.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Buffering the blow: Policy responses amid the war
New Delhi's challenge is twofold: Safeguard macroeconomic stability in the near term and continue building deeper structural resilience for a more fragmented global geopolitical landscape
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Samsung to Xiaomi hike smartphone prices by up to 40%
The West Asia war and a memory chip scarcity have finally spilled over into smartphone prices, with leading smartphone makers raising prices by as much as 40%
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
What the new transgender law seeks to normalise
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 was passed despite much furore by the Opposition in both houses of Parliament and received Presidential assent in a span of less than a week.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Candidates: The thankless yet vital role seconds play
Nakamura fumed at his second after losing to Sindarov, but Neilsen, Carlsen’s second, says the buck stops with the player
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
DEATH PENALTY TO 9 COPS OVER 2020 CUSTODIAL KILLINGS IN TN
A Madurai court on Monday gave the death penalty to nine policemen over the custodial torture of a man and his son, which lead to their death, terming the case as rarest of rare.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Allegations against wife based on false info: Himanta; Cong moves EC
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday claimed that the Congress used false information from a Pakistani social media group to level allegations that his wife has passports of three countries and owns properties in Dubai and a company in the US.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
5-year-old found dead in Bihar residential school
A five-year-old student of a private residential school was found dead with injuries to the neck, stomach and eyes on Monday in Bihar's Jehanabad district, police said, adding that they have detained the school's owner for questioning.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Trump threatens Tehran with night of destruction
Iran on Monday rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the war, while President Donald Trump appeared to widen his threat from civilian targets to the whole Islamic Republic as his ultimatum ticked closer.
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April 07, 2026
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Focussed on bringing prosperity and peace to Assam, says Modi
Voting for all the 126 assembly seats in the state will be held on April 9 and counting will be on May 4.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Names of 45% of WB ‘discrepancy’ voters may be cut
Around 45% of the six million voters placed under a controversial logical discrepancy category are likely to be deleted after adjudication, West Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Monday, hours before rolls were frozen for the first phase of the assembly polls later this month.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
US-Israeli strike kills Iran Guards intel chief
A US-Israeli strike on Monday killed Iran's Revolutionary Guards intelligence chief in Tehran, who earlier this year had been sanctioned by the United States for his role in suppressing anti-government protests.
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April 07, 2026
Hindustan Times Pune
Serious discussions taking place over UCC and simultaneous polls, says PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said “serious and positive discussions” were underway on the implementation of two key ideological issues of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and the ‘One Nation, One Election’ (ONOE) or simultaneous voting for Parliament and state assemblies.
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