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Vaibhav misses ton but keeps RR in the hunt
At Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Tuesday, the batting fireworks began from the first over after the home team captain, Yashasvi Jaiswal, put the Lucknow Super Giants in to bat.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Vaibhav misses ton but keeps RR in the hunt
At Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Tuesday, the batting fireworks began from the first over after the home team captain, Yashasvi Jaiswal, put the Lucknow Super Giants in to bat.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Kolkata Knight Riders the most valuable franchise in IPL: Report
Virat Kohli has emerged as the highest earner in the 18-year-old IPL’s history, totalling ₹230 crore for his 19 years at RCB, according to a report by Fanatic Sports and Hurun published on Tuesday.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Clearing the air on right to bail
Supreme Court has done well to remind everyone that bail is the rule and jail the exception, including in UAPA cases
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Will retain two-language policy: TN
The two-language policy is the proclaimed policy of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) and there was no question of compromising on that stand, Tamil Nadu minister for school education A Rajmohan said on Tuesday, continuing with the previous Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government's opposition to the three-language formula under the National Education Policy (NEP).
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Woman’s body found in Punjab canal, 2 held
The body of a 29-year-old Punjabi singer and makeup artist was recovered from the Sirhind Canal at Neelon on Tuesday around 1am, six days after she was allegedly abducted at gunpoint in Ludhiana, police said.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Build the narrative on Kalpakkam’s success
India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam recently achieved criticality. Most western newsrooms filed it as a minor energy story. They missed the point entirely.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Mango scion released on $1.16mn bail after arrest over father’s death
{ SPAIN } MURDER INQUIRY
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
US, Iran trade threats; Trump says Tehran wants peace deal
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that the US may strike Iran again, a day after he said he had held off a major assault in hope of a deal to end the war —but Tehran's army threatened to open “new fronts” if he went ahead.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Neymar in Brazil's WC squad despite doubts on fitness
Neymar made Brazil's World Cup squad, a selection many local analysts and former footballers deemed unlikely only days ago. The striker will appear at his fourth World Cup.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Kolkata Knight Riders the most valuable franchise in IPL: Report
Virat Kohli has emerged as the highest earner in the 18-year-old IPL’s history, totalling ₹230 crore for his 19 years at RCB, according to a report by Fanatic Sports and Hurun published on Tuesday.
1 min |
May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
New land-transfer norms to aid public asset monetisation
Standardized valuation, identification of surplus land and norms for the transfer, exchange, lease and commercial sale of land are among the key features of a new framework that the Centre has put in place to unlock public land assets under the second phase of the ₹6.7 lakh crore National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP 2.0), two government officials said.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Banks prepare for new challenges amid ascent of AI
India’s largest banks are stepping up cyber defences, hiring, and insurance coverage as concerns grow that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems could make cyberattacks faster and harder to contain.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
9TH TIGER DIES OF SUSPECTED CDV; CENTRE TAKES NOTE
A five-year-old tiger was found dead in the Mohgaon Beat of the Kanha Range in a suspected case of canine distemper virus (CDV), marking ninth such death within two months, officials said on Tuesday.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
India, Vietnam ink pact on AI, quantum tech
India and Vietnam on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the field of artificial intelligence and quantum technology, during talks between defence minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart General Phan Van Giang in Hanoi.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Minister who helped shape Golden Quadrilateral
Major General (retd) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri, a decorated former Indian Army officer, senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Union minister and two-time chief minister of Uttarakhand, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 91 in Dehradun after a prolonged illness, will be remembered as the man who connected India.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Rubio to visit India from May 23-26: State Dept
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will undertake a four-day visit to India beginning May 23 to further cooperation in the fields of trade, defence and energy.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Hoping India will press Russia for Ukraine truce: Norway PM
Norway hopes India’s leadership will use its contacts with Russian counterparts to press for a truce in Ukraine since Oslo and New Delhi have the shared objective of ending the conflict, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store has said.
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May 20, 2026
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RUPEE FALLS TO RECORD LOW OF 96.70 VS DOLLAR
The rupee descended for the eighth consecutive session and ended 50 paise down at its lowest-ever level of 96.70 against the US dollar on Tuesday, weighed down by soaring crude oil prices, persistent foreign capital outflows, and a resilient dollar buoyed by global risk-aversion.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
WHO's pandemic pact paralysed over pathogen sharing
Three years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the Covid-19 global health emergency, and as it scrambles to mount a response to a fresh Ebola outbreak, member states remain deadlocked on the question of how the world will share the pathogen samples and genetic data needed to develop vaccines and treatments for the next pandemic.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
TMC candidate withdraws two days before Falta repoll
Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Falta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas withdrew from the contest two days ahead of polling in a major embarrassment for the party which was voted out of power in the state earlier this month.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Nato considers Hormuz mission to protect ships
Nato is discussing the possibility of helping ships pass through the blocked Strait of Hormuz if the waterway isn’t reopened by early July, according to a senior official in the military alliance.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
SAI to create a sports stack, make athlete data available to start-ups and innovators
Over the next couple of years, the Sports Authority of India plans to build a sports stack that will make athlete data accessible to start-ups and innovators, Hari Ranjan Rao, secretary, Department of Sports, Government of India, said at the RCB Innovation Lab Indian sports summit in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
India, Nordic nations launch green alliance
India and the Nordic countries on Tuesday established a Green Technology and Innovation Strategic Partnership to deepen cooperation in areas ranging from energy security to digital infrastructure, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of the five Nordic states underscored the importance of trust-based ties in an era of geopolitical turbulence and uncertainty.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
Thailand cuts visa-free stays to curb crime involving foreigners
Thailand is drastically cutting the length of visa-free stays for tourists from more than 90 countries in an effort to curb crime involving foreign nationals, officials said on Tuesday.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
SC stays firm on stray dogs curbs in public places
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to modify its November 2025 directions ordering all states and Union territories to remove stray dogs from institutional areas such as schools, hospitals, sports complexes, bus depots and railway stations, and ruled that such dogs cannot be released back into these locations even after sterilisation.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
UNREASONABLE GROUNDS: COURT DENIES INTERIM BAIL TO UMAR
A city court on Tuesday dismissed a bail plea by former JNU student Umar Khalid, accused in the 2020 Delhi riots, calling the grounds unreasonable.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
37-yr-old held for killing, severing limbs of two tigers in Uttarakhand
A 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the alleged poisoning, killing and mutilation of two-year-old male tigers in Uttarakhand’s Shyampur range (under the Haridwar forest division), a buffer zone of the Rajaji Tiger Reserve, forest officials aware of the matter said on Tuesday.
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May 20, 2026
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
TMC Falta candidate withdraws from polls
Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool Congress candidate from Falta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas withdrew from the contest two days ahead of polling in a major embarrassment for the party which was voted out of power in the state earlier this month.
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May 20, 2026
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UK CHANNEL DROPS CONTROVERSIAL SHOW AFTER MEDIA REPORT
British broadcaster Channel 4 removed all previous seasons of “Married at First Sight” — one of its flagship reality shows — on Monday after a BBC report detailing allegations of rape during the filming of the series.
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