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'Avatar was the Turning Point in My Career'
Zoe Saldana tells Katie Ellis why she felt blue in a different way while making Avatar: Fire and Ash
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January 11, 2026
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India will have hijab-clad PM one day: Owaisi
ALL India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said a hijab-clad woman would one day become India's prime minister as the Constitution accords equal status to every citizen, unlike in Pakistan where members of only one religion can occupy the top constitutional posts.
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January 11, 2026
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EC adds 4 SROs, Didi takes on CEC
CM says commission 'insensitive', while poll body sends senior IAS officers as Bengal observers
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January 11, 2026
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Up Above the World So High
High in the Girjan Valley, a sloping pitch holds together a community better than any road ever has
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January 11, 2026
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TARIFF TEST: HOW TRUMP PLANS TO WIN EVEN IF HE LOSES
HERE is an old maxim about casinos and players-the house never loses.
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January 11, 2026
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Time for quick reset in India's policies: Expert
UNITED States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed the US-India trade deal has stalled because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call President Trump, adding uncertainty to the much-anticipated agreement.
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January 11, 2026
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CHAVEZ'S CARICATURE WHO COULDN'T LAUGH
NICOLAS MADURO
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January 11, 2026
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Neeraj ends partnership with Czech coach Zelezny
TWO-TIME Olympic medal-winning javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra announced an end to his partnership with Czech coach Jan Zelezny after just one season, which the Indian said was marked by “progress, respect, anda shared love for the sport.”
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January 11, 2026
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Federal judge blocks Trump's election order targeting vote-by-mail states
A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-bymail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest blow to Trump's efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote and to require that all ballots be received by Election Day.
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January 11, 2026
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Green plan: Capital seeks 3,330 new electric buses for last-mile connectivity
THE Delhi government's Transport Department has sent a proposal to Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) for the immediate procurement of 3,330 additional electric buses to make the national capital's transport system completely green and curb pollution.
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January 11, 2026
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Outsmart Your Worst Instincts
The 10-10-10 rule turns impulsive moments into considered choices by stretching them across time
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January 11, 2026
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Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at Russian oil depot
A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia's southern Volgograd region, officials said Saturday, after Russia launched a powerful hypersonic missile along with drones and other weapons that disrupted Kyiv's power supply and heating.
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January 11, 2026
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HC may punish officers for contempt in Deepam issue
THE Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court said on Friday that it would frame contempt charges against the officers, who failed to implement its order directing lighting of lamp on ‘Deepathoon’ on Thiruparankundram hilltop last year, if they don’t properly show cause before February 2 as to why contempt proceedings not be initiated against them.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
The Morning Standard
Want to create a larger pool of South African players: Smith
FOUR washouts in 17 games, thanks to unseasonal rain.
2 min |
January 10, 2026
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NEEDED: A FRESH POLICY FRAMEWORK TO ENGAGE THE U.S.
Trump 2.0 doesn’t have an India policy. But the relations are not guaranteed to improve when the administration changes. Time for a reset like the one a quarter century ago
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January 10, 2026
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FIX GROK FLAWS, DON'T LET USERS DESTROY WOMEN’S DIGNITY
SOME recent posts on X involving Grok should concern anyone who believes technology should improve public life rather than degrade it.
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January 10, 2026
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MIND ECOLOGICAL BALANCE WHILE RAISING TEAK OUTPUT
INDIA now needs to import an expensive product it once was the leading producer of.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
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A Pho affair
TMS checks out Delhi's favourite Vietnamese spot Vietnom, where summer rolls, pomelo-papaya salad, comforting pho, lemongrass chicken, and grilled sea bass headline the revamped menu
2 min |
January 10, 2026
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POSTER OUT FOR FILM O’ ROMEO
SHAHID Kapoor’s first look from Vishal Bhardwaj’s upcoming gangster film O’Romeo is out.
1 min |
January 10, 2026
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BYD sales rise to 5,402 units in ’25, Tesla sees cold response
AMONG the niche and EV-only brands in Indian car market, Chinese automaker BYD achieved sales of 5,402 units in CY25, a surge of 88% year-on-year compared to 2,689 units sold in CY24.
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January 10, 2026
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Shah launches war on narco-terror, pushes for full eradication in 3 years
UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday set a three-year deadline to put in place a comprehensive national mechanism to eradicate the drug menace, calling for a “collective campaign on all fronts” tomake India drug-free.
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January 10, 2026
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IOA AGM: More incentives for NSFs
HOSTING international competitions, annual grants to National Sports Federations (NSFs) and launching a National Olympic Academy are some of the key takeaways from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Annual General Meeting held at Ahmedabad on Friday.
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January 10, 2026
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Mamata hits the road against raids in Bengal, her MPs detained in Delhi
CM says ED action was meant to steal TMC poll strategy, threatens to expose BJP’s corruption
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January 10, 2026
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Sabarimala thanthri held in gold case
Remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody & sent to the special sub-jail in Thiruvananthapuram
2 min |
January 10, 2026
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Grok restricts images after global deepfake backlash
ELON Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing nonpaying users from generating or editing images after a global backlash erupted over sexualised deepfakes of people, but the change has not satisfied authorities in Europe.
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January 10, 2026
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Assam gifts rhinos, cobras to MP, to receive tigers
A vast stretch of dense forests in eastern Madhya Pradesh, which were once used by the armed Naxal cadres as the passage to further their expansion plans, will now be home to wild buffalos that reportedly became extinct in the state over 100 years ago.
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January 10, 2026
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UP junior doctor, accused of attempting forcible religious conversion, held
DR Rameezuddin Nayak, a Junior Resident at the Department of Pathology in Lucknow’s King George Medical University (KGMU) was arrested by the UP police from near the Nepal border on Friday.
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January 10, 2026
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Rogue elephant kills two more in J'khand, toll reaches 22 in nine days
AFTER a 48-hour pause, the killer elephant once again trampled two more people to death on Friday, while an employee of the forest department, who was deployed to drive it into the jungles, was critically injured and is battling for life.
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January 10, 2026
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No point in fighting, ready to supply Polavaram water to Telangana, says Naidu
MAKING it clear that there will be no compromise in safeguarding the interests of Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has asserted that there will be no use with conflicts among riparian States on river water sharing.
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January 10, 2026
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Assembly panel authorises action in Phansi Ghar row
THE Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday took a decisive step in the “Phansi Ghar” controversy after former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his then-deputy Manish Sisodia, ex-Assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel and his then-deputy Rakhi Birla failed to appear before the Privileges Committee despite being summoned earlier.
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