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Rafah reopening offers lifeline for pati...

Rafah reopening offers lifeline for patients, but aid flow still far from e...

Rafah reopening offers lifeline for patients, but aid flow still far from enough **Rafah Crossing Resumes Limited Operations, Offering Glimmers of Hope Amidst Critical Shortages** **GAZA STRIP –** The partial resumption of operations at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt... read more »

Renewed calls for two-State solution ami...

Renewed calls for two-State solution amid perilously fragile conditions for...

Renewed calls for two-State solution amid perilously fragile conditions for Palestinians The UN committee mandated to promote Palestinian rights opened its 2026 session on Tuesday with renewed calls for a two-State solution, amid a shaky ceasefire in Gaza and continued settler expansion in the West... read more »

Ukraine: Civilians injured, miners kille...

Ukraine: Civilians injured, miners killed, in separate Russian attacks

Ukraine: Civilians injured, miners killed, in separate Russian attacks ## Escalating Attacks Disrupt Ukrainian Infrastructure, Leaving Civilians Vulnerable **Kyiv, Ukraine –** A series of Russian aerial assaults overnight has inflicted further hardship on Ukrainian civilians, resulting in... read more »

Building healthy bridges towards peace: ...

Building healthy bridges towards peace: WHO launches $1 billion appeal

Building healthy bridges towards peace: WHO launches $1 billion appeal **Global Health Initiative Seeks $1 Billion to Bolster Healthcare in Crisis Zones** **Geneva, Switzerland –** The World Health Organization (WHO) has initiated a critical global appeal, seeking close to $1 billion in funding... read more »

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Sugar remains steady on hike in import duty

Sugar prices spurted by nearly 1 per cent to Rs 3,174 per quintal in futures trade today as participants indulged in creating speculative positions after the government raised import duty besides... read more »

Air India Joins Star Alliance Group

Air India Ltd has joined the Star Alliance group of carriers, a spokesman said on Tuesday, a move that could help boost revenues at the loss-making... read more »

Gold futures down 0.10% on weak global cues, profit-boo...

NEW DELHI: Gold prices fell 0.10 per cent to Rs 27,641 per 10 grams in futures trade today amid a weak trend overseas and profit-booking by speculators. At... read more »

Sensex Slips Below 25,000 Amid Selloff in ITC, Infosys ...

The BSE Sensex is on track for a fourth straight fall on Monday amid a sharp selloff in index heavyweight stocks such as ITC and Infosys. These two stocks have... read more »

ITC slumps over 5 pct on worries over higher taxes in b...

Shares of biggest cigarette manufacturer ITC Ltd (ITC.NS) fall more than 5 percent on a media report that the government may raise taxes on cigarettes... read more »

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Sircar's next might cast Parineeti, Irfaan

Sircar’s next might cast Parineeti, Irfaan

Mumbai – Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says filmmaker Shoojit Sircar’s next might feature actress Parineeti Chopra and actor par excellence Irfaan. “Oh! And Shoojit Sircar has given me his... read more »

Lady Gaga orders 'essential' oxygen cylinders for London gigLady Gaga orders 'essential' oxygen cylinders for London gig

Lady Gaga says she has found love

London – Lady Gaga has confessed that it has been hard for her to find love, but she has finally found love. The 27-year-old singer told Q and... read more »

I always wanted to play a gangster: Saif Ali Khan

I always wanted to play a gangster: Saif Ali Khan

Mumbai – Saif Ali Khan who plays gangster Raja Mishra in the forthcoming film “Bullett Raja,” says he always wanted to play such a cha!... read more »

India has social culture, progressive thinking: Designe...

India has social culture, progressive thinking: Designer Kenneth Cole

By Uma Ramasubramanian Mumbai – American designer Kenneth Cole, who was in India for the debut amfAR gala and for his store opening in the capital,... read more »

Deepika overwhelmed with Shekhar Kapur’s complime...

Deepika overwhelmed with Shekhar Kapur's compliment

Mumbai – Actress Deepika Padukone, who has been delivering back-to-back successful films in 2013, says the biggest compliment she ever got for her latest... read more »

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Rakesh Maria May Not Retain Charge of Sheena Bora Probe: Sources

NEW DELHI: Rakesh Maria, who was removed as Mumbai’s police commissioner on Tuesday, is unlikely to retain charge of the Sheena Bora murder investigation despite the Maharashtra government... read more »

Rakesh Maria ‘not thinking of resigning’

A day after he was shunted out of the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner, senior IPS officer Rakesh Maria on Wednesday said he was not contemplating... read more »

BJP broke off alliance with Sena at my behest: Eknath K...

Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse has publicly accepted that the BJP decided to snap ties with its over two-decade-old alliance partner Shiv Sena a... read more »

Should Rathore speak more carefully on national securit...

Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Sunday that India is always prepared to “neutralise” its enemies, more specifically the 1993 Mumbai... read more »

Pakistan army chief Raheel Sharif warns India of ‘...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif has warned India of “unbearable damage” if it tried to impose a short or long... read more »

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Nadal, Serena win 2013 Men's, Women's Champions of the Champions award

Nadal, Serena win 2013 Men’s, Women’s Champions of th...

Washington – Serena Williams has won the Women’s Champions of Champions while Rafael Nadal took home the Men’s Champions of Champions award at the L’Equipe’s 2013... read more »

Gazza hoping 2014 will be `his year` after `suffering` in `unlucky` 2013

Gazza hoping 2014 will be `his year` after `suffer...

London – Troubled England football legend Paul Gascoigne is vowing to clean up his act and says 2014 is going to be ‘his year’,... read more »

Tyson says he is now a reformed character who `lives li...

`Iron Mike` Tyson finds accepting responsibility `biggest battle` in life

London – American boxing legend Mike Tyson has insisted that his tearaway days of drink, drugs and girls are all behind him as he ‘lives like a... read more »

Rosberg’s Mercedes car suffers tyre failure at 200 mph ...

Rosberg’s Mercedes car suffers tyre failure at 200 mph during Pirelli test

London – Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg had reportedly suffered a tyre failure while driving at 200 mph during a private test for Italian tyre giants... read more »

FIFA to use `vanishing spray` during 2014 Rio World Cup...

FIFA to use `vanishing spray` during 2014 Rio World Cup to designate distances for free kicks

Johannesburg – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said that a vanishing spray, which is being currently used at the Club World Cup in Morocco to designate... read more »

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Conjoined twin who survived separation surgery dies just months a...

Conjoined twin who survived separation surgery dies just months after operation **Brazilian Infant Dies Months After Separation From Conjoined Twin** São Paulo, Brazil – Aruna Rodrigues, an infant... read more »

Taiwan earthquake LIVE: Tsunami alert as 7.0 magni...

Taiwan earthquake LIVE: Tsunami alert as 7.0 magnitude quake rocks Taipei ## Strong Earthquake Shakes Taiwan, Tsunami Alert Issued Taipei, Taiwan –... read more »

Key Bolsonaro ally arrested in Paraguay while trying to...

Key Bolsonaro ally arrested in Paraguay while trying to flee to El Salvador **Former Brazilian Law Enforcement Official Apprehended in Paraguay on Forgery... read more »

UN renews Sudan ceasefire appeal over unimaginable suff...

Sudan 'killing field' massacre

UN renews Sudan ceasefire appeal over unimaginable suffering of civilians ## UN Secretary-General Urges Immediate Ceasefire in Sudan Amid Escalating... read more »

Turkiye holds military ceremony for Libyan army chief k...

Turkiye holds military ceremony for Libyan army chief killed in crash **Turkish Military Honors Fallen Libyan Army Chief in Solemn Ceremony** **Ankara,... read more »

TikTok forms U.S. joint venture, names Adam Presser CEO

TikTok forms U.S. joint venture, names Adam Presser CEO **TikTok Establishes U.S. Entity, Appoints Adam Presser as Chief Executive** TikTok, the globally recognized short-form video... read more »

Japan inflation cools to 2.1%, lowest since March 2022, but rice prices loom large ahead o...

Japan inflation cools to 2.1%, lowest since March 2022, but rice prices loom large ahead of election **Japan’s Inflation Rate Eases, Rice Prices Present a Potential Economic... read more »

Microsoft working to fix Outlook email issues

Microsoft working to fix Outlook email issues **Outlook Users Report Intermittent Service Disruptions, Prompting Microsoft Investigation** Microsoft is currently addressing reports of... read more »

NATO soldier 'heartbroken' by Trump turning back on allies after going to war fo...

NATO soldier 'heartbroken' by Trump turning back on allies after going to war for US **German Veteran Voices Concerns Over Shifting U.S. Stance on NATO Alliance** A veteran of the... read more »

Tragic update after Brit vanished near Dracula's castle ...

Tragic update after Brit vanished near Dracula's castle 'Cruel beyond belief' **Search Concludes for Missing British Hiker in Romanian Mountains** The search for George Smyth, a... read more »