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Hormuz Standoff: Iran Rejects Trump’s ‘Total US Control’ Claim, Keeps Key Oil Chokepoint Blocked
Hormuz Standoff: Iran Rejects Trump’s ‘Total US Control’ Claim, Keeps Key Oil Chokepoint Blocked
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Trump says America has built a “wall of steel” around the world’s most critical oil chokepoint and “will keep it”. Tehran says nothing has changed: the Strait stays blocked until Washington meets its ...
Bangladesh Rock Australia in Darwin After 23 Years Away, Fast Bowlers Draw First Blood in Opening Test
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Bangladesh have struck three times early in Darwin, rattling Australia on their return to Test cricket Down Under after 23 years. Days after being skittled for 54 in the warm-up, the visitors are scri ...
Monsoon Session: Parliament Hobbles On
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This situation will continue even as the Modi government continues to push ahead with its policy objectives
India’s Stake in Russia’s Northern Sea Route: How an Arctic Shortcut Could Reshape Energy, Trade and Geopolitics
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Putin says India is showing growing interest in the Northern Sea Route as Russia pushes the Arctic corridor as a faster gateway to Asia. But behind the promise of shorter voyages lie sanctions, meltin ...
Dad, I Still Can't Believe You're Gone: Messi's Heartbreaking Goodbye
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Lionel Messi mourns the man who took him to training as a child, became his agent and stood beside him through football's greatest triumphs. Cristiano Ronaldo reaches across their legendary rivalry wi ...
Bank of America Makes $1.9 Billion India Bet, Buys Up to 49.9% in Jio Credit
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The ₹18,268-crore deal will turn Jio Financial’s fast-growing lending arm into a joint venture, bringing together Reliance’s digital reach and Bank of America’s global financial firepower
From Jaws to E.T.: Steven Spielberg Gets His MoMA Moment
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More than 50 years after MoMA helped introduce a young Spielberg to audiences, the museum will honour the filmmaker whose blockbusters proved that art and entertainment could live on the same screen
Meet Thokchom Diamond Singh: 16, Fearless and Taking His First Shot at Senior Football
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From kicking a ball at four in Manipur to making his senior bow for SC Delhi at the Durand Cup, Thokchom Diamond Singh has spent 12 years climbing Indian football’s youth ladder. Behind the rise are p ...
The alleged ‘lungi’ slur in Rajya Sabha smells like ’60s regional chauvinism
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Such pejoratives over attire -- Bajao Pungi, Hatao Lungi -- were used in 1960s Bombay by the Shiv Sena of Bal Thackeray to establish its nativist credentials and to project south Indians as enemies