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Congress questions Centre over US court verdict in Pegasus surveillance case

BENGALURU: Responding to the US court verdict in the Pegasus spyware case involving an illegal surveillance racket, Congress leaders have expressed concern over the privacy of the citizens who were targeted. Congress leader and Karnataka general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala said, “The verdict in the Pegasus case has blown the lid off a nefarious operation where 300 WhatsApp numbers of …

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2 days, 13 hours ago

5 top exercises you must try in 2025

Live Mint

At one point, it was the norm to go to the gym, follow a trainer, do a handful of exercises mentioned on a booklet, and keep at them in a progressive pattern until you hit certain goals. Weighted and seated good mornings I found out about this quite late in the year but it’s been a game changer for the …

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2 days, 23 hours ago

Lakers rally late, then hold off Kings for another win

LA Times

The test was obvious the minute the Lakers got their schedule for the 2024-25 season. Thursday, in their first game against the Kings in Sacramento, Davis was terrific in a game Lakers coach JJ Redick called his “favorite” win of the season. Rui Hachimura’s offensive rebound after Davis missed a pair of free throws with 12.1 seconds left kept the …

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2 days, 23 hours ago

NASA’s Webb telescope seemingly confirms controversial theory on planet formation

Salon

Back when the stars in our universe were initially being formed, they created rotating disks of dust and gas known as protoplanetary disks. Yet recent images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope seem to contradict that notion by showing protoplanetary disks in a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Focusing on a cluster …

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2 days, 23 hours ago

32 dead, many injured after bus collides with truck in Brazil

India Today

At least 32 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, adding that the death toll could still rise. The accident in Minas Gerais state involving a bus that was travelling from S£o Paulo left "between 32 and 35" people dead, a spokeswoman for the local fire department told AFP by phone. "After hours …

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‘Vanvaas’ movie review: Nana Patekar does the heavy lifting in this trite tearjerker

The Hindu

Bollywood loves to recycle parental abuse almost every decade to create a tearjerker. Anil Sharma’s Vanvaas feels like a reincarnation of Avtaar, Swarg, and Baghban, stories where a nurturing father suffers in his sunset years at the hands of his selfish sons. Sharma who started his career with sensitive family dramas like Shradhanjali and Bandhan Kachche Dhagon Ka takes a …

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4 days, 12 hours ago

UK weather map shows where storm-force winds could cause travel chaos as Met Office issues fresh warnings ahead of Christmas

Daily Mail

Storm-force winds are set to batter Britain causing travel mayhem ahead of the big Christmas getaway rush, with the Met Office issuing two yellow warnings. A yellow alert for wind has been issued for Saturday, covering all of Scotland and parts of north England and Northern Ireland However, the wind warning has been extended into Sunday, with almost all of …

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4 days, 14 hours ago

Teenager with rare condition that made her age eight times faster who inspired thousands online with her positivity videos dies just before Christmas: Parents pay tribute to daughter who dreamt of mar

Daily Mail

Tragic Beandri Booysen who suffered from an extremely rare incurable disease that saw her age eight years for every one year of her short life has passed away - aged just 19. Beandri Booysen who suffered from an extremely rare incurable disease that saw her age eight years for every one year of her short life has passed away - …

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4 days, 23 hours ago

Parliament needs to shun the shameful ‘Grammar of Anarchy’

New Indian Express

Thursday’s unprecedented fracas on parliament premises over the home minister’s remarks about B R Ambedkar was a new low in Indian democracy. Whatever happens with the charges and counter-charges on MPs on the streets outside, we hope that Thursday’s violence would not roll over into a scuffle in parliament on Friday, the last day of the winter session. “The task …

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5 days, 23 hours ago

Ahmedabad Diary | APMC polls bring BJP internal rift out in open

New Indian Express

BJP’s internal squabble intensified on Tuesday, with row erupting over the Unjha APMC elections. The panel backed by BJP MLA Kirit Patel was wiped out, while the candidates supported by former chairman Dinesh Patel emerged victorious. Rajkot leader caught in birth cert tampering BJP’s ongoing organisation festival in Rajkot’s Ward No. However, an alert party insider has blown the whistle, …

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1 week ago

Greater Noida: Violence at freshers’ party, two bouncers arrested for assaulting student

Hindustan Times

A freshers’ party at a private college in Greater Noida turned violent on Saturday after a minor altercation between students and bouncers escalated into a full-blown brawl, police said on Monday. Gautam Budh Nagar police arrested two bouncers after a purported video of the allegedly assaulting a student, identified as Akash Singh, an MBA second year student from Mau, was …

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1 week ago

Three talking points from the Premier League

Deccan Chronicle

Manchester City slumped to a scarcely credible eighth defeat in 11 games on Sunday -- this time against Manchester United -- leaving Pep Guardiola flummoxed but handing Ruben Amorim a huge boost.With the spotlight off them, Chelsea moved just two points behind long-time Premier League leaders Liverpool, with a 2-1 win against Brentford.Wolves sacked Gary O'Neil after a fourth straight …

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1 week ago

Canada finance minister resigns as PM Trudeau grapples with new Trump term

Al Jazeera

Chrystia Freeland cites government’s response to US President-elect Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff threats in letter stepping down from her post. Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has resigned in a blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is facing declining approval ratings and opposition from within his own party, as well as the prospect of a trade war with the …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Syria's former execution grounds: Residents reveal the horror of Tadamon massacre

Firstpost

Tadamon became infamous after a video emerged in 2022 showing a man in military fatigues leading unarmed, blindfolded men towards a large ditch, telling them to run and shooting them at point-blank range as they neared the edge or after they fell in A man checks a tunnel found under a mosque in Tadamon district, which is littered with bones …

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1 week, 3 days ago

The rot within: Manoj Bajpayee, Kanu Behl on ‘Despatch’

The Hindu

In 2017, the journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh was gunned down outside her home in Bengaluru. “I saw this as a Faustian exploration of one man’s actions, “ says Behl, who holds Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View and All the President’s Men—masterworks of the paranoid press procedural—in high regard. “Despatch is probably the maximum sex I’ve had on screen,” …

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Canadian official threatens to cut off energy to the United States

CNN

CNN — Canada could retaliate against President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs by shutting down energy flows to the United States, a top Canadian official warned. Given that Ontario is not a major producer of crude oil, Ford’s threat appeared to specifically apply to electricity the United States imports from Canada. Ford’s comments also raise the specter of broader retaliation from …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Clay Holmes and Mets finalize $38M, 3-year contract, with plans to convert him into a starter

Associated Press

DALLAS — Clay Holmes and the New York Mets finalized a $38 million, three-year contract on Monday, with plans to convert the All-Star reliever into a starting pitcher. “Clay has an elite repertoire, knows New York, and will be a key contributor going forward.” Holmes has made four big league starts — all with Pittsburgh when he broke into the …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Safari tourists terrified as angry hippo chases, bites vehicle. Video

India Today

A group of tourists on a dream safari in South Africa’s Manyoni Private Game Reserve found themselves in a terrifying encounter when an irritable hippo charged their vehicle. Guided by the experienced Sandiso, Katherine Gilson with Steve and Richard Teichmann, along with some close friends, anticipated breathtaking wildlife sightings - but nothing could prepare them for the heart-pounding drama that …

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2 weeks ago

Storm Darragh leaves UK solar farm in pieces in blow to green energy

Daily Mail

Owners of a solar farm torn to pieces were among those counting the cost of killer Storm Darragh - as recovery work was ongoing on Monday. Hundreds of panels at the giant 190-acre Porth Wen solar farm in Anglesey, North Wales - only built two years ago - were blown off their mountings, some ripped to shreds. Hundreds of solar …

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2 weeks ago

The View From India newsletter: The dramatic fall of Damascus

The Hindu

Syria has just witnessed a dramatic shift, with opposition forces taking control of the country, after more than half a century of the Assad family’s repressive rule. President Assad effectively survived for 13 years since anti-government protests broke out, with help from Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, who have been Syria’s strongest allies. On Sunday, December 8, barely a week …

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Xi's proposal facilitating exchanges

China Daily

Muscatine students learn how to make dumplings in Beijing during their 10-day trip to China in January. When asked about President Xi Jinping's ambitious proposal made last year to invite a total of 50,000 young people from the United States over a period of five years to visit China on exchange and study programs, Eric Foster, nephew of legendary journalist …

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Xi's proposal facilitating exchanges

China Daily

Muscatine students learn how to make dumplings in Beijing during their 10-day trip to China in January. When asked about President Xi Jinping's ambitious proposal made last year to invite a total of 50,000 young people from the United States over a period of five years to visit China on exchange and study programs, Eric Foster, nephew of legendary journalist …

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Xi's proposal facilitating exchanges

China Daily

Muscatine students learn how to make dumplings in Beijing during their 10-day trip to China in January. When asked about President Xi Jinping's ambitious proposal made last year to invite a total of 50,000 young people from the United States over a period of five years to visit China on exchange and study programs, Eric Foster, nephew of legendary journalist …

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2 weeks ago

Images of Syria’s opposition flag raised at the embassy in Russia

Al Jazeera

At the Syrian embassy in Russia’s capital, Moscow, a group of men raised the opposition flag a day after the government of Bashar al-Assad fell in Damascus. “Today the embassy opened and is working normally under a new flag,” an embassy representative told Russia’s state news agency TASS on Monday. Removed Syrian leader al-Assad fled to Moscow, Russian media reported, …

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Congress questions Centre over US court verdict in Pegasus surveillance case

5 top exercises you must try in 2025

Lakers rally late, then hold off Kings for another win

NASA’s Webb telescope seemingly confirms controversial theory on planet formation

32 dead, many injured after bus collides with truck in Brazil

‘Vanvaas’ movie review: Nana Patekar does the heavy lifting in this trite tearjerker

UK weather map shows where storm-force winds could cause travel chaos as Met Office issues fresh warnings ahead of Christmas

Teenager with rare condition that made her age eight times faster who inspired thousands online with her positivity videos dies just before Christmas: Parents pay tribute to daughter who dreamt of mar

Parliament needs to shun the shameful ‘Grammar of Anarchy’

Ahmedabad Diary | APMC polls bring BJP internal rift out in open

Greater Noida: Violence at freshers’ party, two bouncers arrested for assaulting student

Three talking points from the Premier League

Canada finance minister resigns as PM Trudeau grapples with new Trump term

Syria's former execution grounds: Residents reveal the horror of Tadamon massacre

The rot within: Manoj Bajpayee, Kanu Behl on ‘Despatch’

Canadian official threatens to cut off energy to the United States

Clay Holmes and Mets finalize $38M, 3-year contract, with plans to convert him into a starter

Safari tourists terrified as angry hippo chases, bites vehicle. Video

Storm Darragh leaves UK solar farm in pieces in blow to green energy

The View From India newsletter: The dramatic fall of Damascus

Xi's proposal facilitating exchanges

Xi's proposal facilitating exchanges

Xi's proposal facilitating exchanges

Images of Syria’s opposition flag raised at the embassy in Russia